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First Successful Demonstration of CO2 Capture Technology
An anonymous coward writes "Global Research Technologies, LLC (GRT), a technology research and development company, and Klaus Lackner from Columbia University have achieved the
successful demonstration of a bold new technology to capture carbon from the air. The "air extraction" prototype has successfully demonstrated that indeed carbon dioxide (CO2) can be captured from the atmosphere. This is GRT's first step toward a commercially viable air capture device."
Most likely, after a detailed energy accounting is done, this system of 1 million co2 removing machines and its associated systems will be seen to be drawing out of the atmosphere slightly less than the amount of carbon that powering it puts into the atmosphere. Come on now scientists. Stop this one dimensional thinking. Do the balancing.
I suggest this is a thermodynamics problem and no scientist right now has the overview, the outside view to see it. Not yet anyway. There is no solution short of carefully maintaining a small human population. And we will not do that of course. So, there is no solution, just an advancing problem. More humans = more order = more need for fossil fuel power to create and maintain that order = more global warming.
Intelligence in a species is pathological. I suggest there are even mechanisms in evolution, in the genetics of species on this Earth that suppress intelligence. I suggest that we perhaps evaded those mechanisms sometime in the past, maybe during the intense inbreeding around the time of the "bottleneck" in the human population on the Earth around 700,000 years ago. Intelligence has allowed us to stop evolution with regard to ourselves. We no longer evolve to fit the environment; we fit the environment to ourselves. And this is going to kill us.
P.S. Did I just read that China is going to alter the weather to insure it doesn't rain during the Olympics?
E Proelio Veritas.
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