$25M Bounty Offered for Global Warming Fix

SaDan writes "Richard Branson is offering $25M as a bounty for a fix to global warming. The person or organization that can devise a method to remove at least a billion tons of carbon dioxide a year from the atmosphere will be able to claim the bounty. There are a few catches, of course. There can't be any negative impact on the environment, and the payment will come in chunks. A 5 million dollar payout will be paid when the system is put into place with the remainder of the bounty to be paid after 10 years of continuous use."

Comments

Easy

[spyrral]

Stop burning fossil fuels.

Where's my 25 million?

Re:I'm sure we could

[arachnoprobe]

One word: Nuclear.

Re:No impact on the environment? easy!

[mhall119]

Removing 1 billion tons of CO2 from the atmosphere is easy, keeping it from going back is the tricky part. I suggest we build a 1 mile long circular pipe. At one end, we put a fan that will suck in all that nasty CO2 from the air, and pump it down the pipe. Now, Branson wants this to have no impact on the environment, so we need to replace that CO2 in roughly the same quantity and location, so at the other end of the 1 mile circular tube (roughly 10 feet away), we have a CO2 exhaust vent. Where can I claim my $25 million?