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.

Comments

The use sounds too good...

[flipflapflopflup]

Surely there must be some way to turn this into a weapon of some sort.

It would make it easier to get funding.

Re:The use sounds too good...

[sinserve]

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

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Here at Los Alamos, we can do both!

[bachelor3]

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 :)

Re:What about trees?

[Rupert]

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

Re:Quicklime

[BeeShoo]

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