Goodbye Global Warming!...Hello Terraforming?

silance writes "Here is an article from Science Daily detailing a new method for extracting carbon dioxide from the atmosphere on a large scale and at normal concentrations. Previous systems require placement near high concentration centers such as power plants, and do not address low-concentration sources (such as internal combustion engines) which are responsible for half of the world's carbon dioxide pollution. The article descibes the technology as scalable to the point of repairing Earth's atmosphere to pre-Industrial-Age levels! Next stop, Mars..." I seem to remember something like this in SimEarth ^? - but I'm not going to hold my breath (Ha! I pun!) waiting for this.

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*cough* kyoto *cough*...

[jjn1056]

No surprise this article came out of a government agency run by the man responsible for pulling the US out of the Kyoto treaty.

Many Environmentalists Won't Like This

[smagruder]

As there are many environmentalist/socialists intent on destroying the global capitalist economy via greenhouse gas reduction standards (and letting Red China off the hook), there will be many against doing something that actually *fixes* the problem. The good environmentalists, who want a healthy planet *and* a vibrant economy, should do everything possible to support ideas like the CO2 extractor. Humankind was "industrious" enough to create the problem, and thus we can fix it too. Perhaps we'll finally be able to have our cake and eat it too... that is, until the fossil fuels run out.