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New Plastic to Cut CO2 Emissions and Purify Water

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the green-plastic dept.

Roland Piquepaille writes "Researchers have lots of imagination. After developing plastic as solid as steel, other scientists from in Australia, Korea and in the U.S. have created a plastic which could cut CO2 emissions and purify water. Their new material mimics pores found in plants and is exceptionally efficient. As said one of the lead researchers, 'it can separate carbon dioxide from natural gas a few hundred times faster than current plastic membranes and its performance is four times better in terms of purity of the separated gas.' Now it remains to be seen if commercial companies are interested, either for water desalination or for natural gas processing plants."

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  1. SLASHDOT SUX0RZ by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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  2. Re:What I want to know is ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well the whole CO2 thing is for the unscientific PC crowd that didn't realize when Al Gore displayed the historic climate temperature and CO2 gas concentration slide that the graphs were skewed. The rise CO2 levels FOLLOWED the rise in temperature NOT the other way around. D'OH! So much for the scientific method.

  3. Be careful. Possible fraud. by Futurepower(R) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Be careful. Roland Piquepaille, the man who wrote the Slashdot story submission, is paid to write stories. Many of the people who pay him seem to want investment money, and also seem to have no hope of making a profit, because of faulty science.

    Slashdot editors have never said whether they take money from Roland Piquepaille to post the stories he writes.