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Goodbye Global Warming!...Hello Terraforming?

Posted by Hemos on from the not-bloody-likely-anytime-soon dept.

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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  1. The use sounds too good... by flipflapflopflup · · Score: 4, Funny
    Surely there must be some way to turn this into a weapon of some sort.

    It would make it easier to get funding.

    1. Re:The use sounds too good... by sinserve · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well, we can add "global warming" to the axis of evil.

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  2. The SimEarth Effect by rgoer · · Score: 2, Funny

    We'd better watch out... if we've now got terraformers, the next thing you know someone will have kept placing alien monoliths straight onto one protozoa until, lo and behold, "Protozoa have gone sentient!" Now we just have to wait for all those damn nanotech protozoa cities to blast off into orbit...

  3. Mayor Quimby! by Chayce · · Score: 2, Funny

    But Quimby promised if he got elected as president he would HELP global warming so that we could turn antartica into a tropic paradise and also we could have all the fried fish we wanted from the gulf of mexico... I voted for him for president, why didnt you?

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  4. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 2, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  5. Here at Los Alamos, we can do both! by bachelor3 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Los Alamos enhances global security by ensuring the safety and reliability of the U.S. nuclear stockpile, developing technologies to reduce threats from weapons of mass destruction...

    Just covering all our bases, I guess :)

  6. Re:What about trees? by Hittite+Creosote · · Score: 2, Funny
    not really an argument, the tree just stores, and when it dies....

    ...we make it into furniture.

  7. Re:What about trees? by Rupert · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can put a tree in your gas tank. You just have to bury it really deep and wait a few million years.

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  8. Re:Quicklime by BeeShoo · · Score: 3, Funny

    You can download it from www.quicklime.apple.com...
    No wait... In the words of the immortal Roseanne Rossanna Danna, "Nevermind".

  9. Re:Quicklime by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Actually, that was Miss Emily Natella. "I don't understand why everyone is so worried about all the violins on television. What's wrong with violins on television?" That was funny stuff.