With dreams of Mars, this young activist works for a greener future on Earth
Posted on December 23rd, 2022
By , CNN
When he was just 15, Kazumi Muraki created a small, portable device to capture carbon from the atmosphere. Seven years later, the Japanese chemist is researching how to convert this captured carbon into fuel.
As a young boy, Muraki was never very interested in science, he tells CNN, until his grandfather gave him the children’s novel George’s Secret Key to the Universe,” by the late Stephen Hawking and his daughter Lucy.
Muraki says the titular character goes on a quest to find a suitable planet for human life and settles on Mars. Amazed by pictures of the red planet and its blue sunset, at just 10-years-old Muraki made it his life mission to get to Mars.
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