Removing CO2 From the Air Efficiently

Canadian scientists have created a device that efficiently removes CO2 from the atmosphere. "The proposed air capture system differs from existing carbon capture and storage technology ... while CCS involves installing equipment at, say, a coal-fired power plant to capture CO2 produced during the coal-burning process, ... air capture machines will be able to literally remove the CO2 present in ambient air everywhere. [The team used] ... a custom-built tower to capture CO2 directly from the air while requiring less than 100 kilowatt-hours of electricity per tonne of carbon dioxide."

Re:Mine is far more efficient

[Anonymous Coward]

G-God? Is that you?

Counterproductive

[invisibleairwaves]

> Canadian scientists have created a device that efficiently removes CO2 from the atmosphere.

As a Canadian, I have to say I'm disappointed in my fellow countrymen. Just when you thought global warming would make our climate mildly tolerable, they go and mess it all up.

Thanks, guys. I'm sure you'll regret this in a few months. No, I will not shovel your driveway.

Re:Natural device?

[Fluffeh]

Oh honestly, you green bottomed hairy hippie! Why plant trees that will cleanly and effectively remove the carbon from the air, when we can invent a MACHINE to do it that will use electricity and require parts and labour and all that? You greenies and your whacky nature ideas. Honestly! How exactly do trees generate jobs?

I suppose you eat dolphin safe tuna as well?!

Re:Natural device?

[Ihlosi]

Don't we have a device that removes CO2 from the air? I thought they were called "trees."

I hooked a tree up to 100kW, and it added CO2 to the air instead.

Re:Natural device?

[marco.antonio.costa]

Man! Cut it out!

It's THREE steps, not four, and you CAN'T specify the intermediate one! Jeezuz...

Cheaper way.

[Anonymous Coward]

I still think creating a time travel device, going back and assassinating Al Gore and IPCC key members will end this global warming problem.

While we're at it, I hope you won't mind if we put two leads in Col. Korn's head. Later, I'd like to murder Havermeyer and Appleby. After we do those two, we can kill McWatt.

Re:Natural device?

[Macthorpe]

Just wonder how much do we have to wait for a fart capture device

Thank you, Argentina. [bbc.co.uk]

Re:Natural device?

[beav007]

Strangely, typing "trees" instead of "tree's" is both easier, and correct, and you haven't done it. I'd say our Canadian friends are on to something.

If apostrophes meant "ZOMGHereComesAnS", we would type "treeZOMGHereComesAnSs", but they don't, so we don't.

Re:Counterproductive

[inode_buddha]

You guys finally evolved driveways for your igloos, eh? Cool!

Re:Natural device?

[Crudely_Indecent]

How exactly do trees generate jobs?

Well...people could be paid to plant them. Yeah, I know that trees can do this on their own....but can they do it in nice neat rows?

Re:Natural device?

[Captain Hook]

I suppose you eat dolphin safe tuna as well?!

No, but I do eat tuna safe dolphines. hmmm

Re:Natural device?

[davester666]

Human's are fascinated with Rube Goldberg-type machines. It would be even better if there were balls rolling around an endless track as part of the process...

Re:Mine is far more efficient

[JumperCable]

Oh dear, I hadn't thought of that.

*poof*

Re:Natural device?

[rohan972]

How exactly do trees generate jobs?

Well...people could be paid to plant them. Yeah, I know that trees can do this on their own....but can they do it in nice neat rows?

That's a great idea ... we could even employ people to selectively cut the trees down, and others to mill the timber, and others to make things with it. I think it's possible to come up with a viable business model where we sell people products made from converted atmospheric carbon.

I'm off to the patent office!

Re:Cow Farts... wrong end!

[Linker3000]

So we need to kill all the vegetarians, right?

Re:Natural device?

[fprintf]

Trees are fairly "low maintainence" and produce at least one useful by product. Some (including one which should be obvious to Canadians) produce more than one useful product.

Hockey sticks?

Re:Natural device?

[NotBornYesterday]

Well, IIRC, you can burn H2 and CO2 and produce H2O and CO, so yes, assuming you had a ready supply of hydrogen, you could create some kind of internal combustion engine to burn off your captured CO2 and produce clean, pure water. Oh, and pure, clean carbon monoxide as well. Watch out when the atmospheric levels of that stuff starts to rise ...

Re:Natural device?

[NotBornYesterday]

Hey, you're right ...

(runs to patent office)

Re:Natural device?

[WoodstockJeff]

Silly person, there is PLENTY of need for tree products in times like this! Have you EVER looked at the PAPERWORK needed to declare an economic downturn, let alone a depression?!?

Re:If they want to remove CO2...

[Hao Wu]

Go to Neptune, sample the core, and return it to the earth.
 
I typed it out easily enough, so it must be that simple!

Re:Natural device?

[rnj]

A friend of mine spent a fair amount of time planting trees.

Green side up was their mantra