Method and a system for converting carbon dioxide into chemical starting materials

A method for converting carbon dioxide into chemical starting materials, the method comprising:

• isolating carbon dioxide from flue gas emitted by a combustion system, to produce an isolated carbon dioxide;
• burning an electropositive metal, in an atmosphere of the isolated carbon dioxide in an exothermic burning reaction that produces thermal energy, to reduce the isolated carbon dioxide into the chemical starting materials, wherein the electropositive metal is a lithium metal, and the burning the electropositive metal produces reaction products comprising lithium carbonate and lithium oxide;
• regenerating the lithium metal from the lithium carbonate and lithium oxide;
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• using a part of the thermal energy produced by the exothermic burning reaction of the electropositive metal with the isolated carbon dioxide to supply heat to a desorption process of a carbon dioxide capture/isolation process.