New CO2 Harvester Could Help Scrub the Air 368
sciencehabit sends this excerpt from ScienceNOW: "Researchers in California have produced a cheap plastic capable of removing large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air. Down the road, the new material could enable the development of large-scale batteries and even form the basis of 'artificial trees' that lower atmospheric concentrations of CO2 in an effort to stave off catastrophic climate change."
oh noes! (Score:5, Funny)
And once we have a few gigatonnes of CO2 (Score:5, Funny)
How about we bury it at Yucca Mountain? Dissolve it in seawater?
I HAVE IT! We separate the carbon and the oxygen, release the O2 into the atmosphere, and bury the carbon in abandoned coal mines!
Will somebody think of the plant children (Score:5, Funny)
Brilliant! (Score:5, Funny)
I was going to just plant some trees, but covering my property in plastic seems like a much better idea!
Re:Massive farms of artificial trees... (Score:5, Funny)
*CO2 floats away*
To where?
Narnia.
Re:Massive farms of artificial trees... (Score:5, Funny)
I often wonder where people who deny pollution is having any effect on the earth think they are going to live if they are wrong.
On their yacht?
Re:How are you going to power that? (Score:5, Funny)
Just FYI: An apostrophe doesn't always mean Look out! An "S" is on the way!
Simple Answer (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dunno what you'd call me (Score:2, Funny)
But how do you patent a tree and retire a millionaire after the IPO?
I'm no biblical scholar but isn't that what God did?
Re:Massive farms of artificial trees... (Score:5, Funny)
If only they could figure out a way to make them self replicating, then set them up to turn the CO2 into something useful, I don't know, how about (and I know it's crazy) sugar? And the whole thing could be solar powered, yeah that's the ticket...
Re:Massive farms of artificial trees... (Score:5, Funny)
Since oil produces CO2, why not just cut out the middle man and turn oil into plastic and dump that in a landfill?