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New Material Can Selectively Capture CO2
Socguy brings us a story from CBC News about a recently developed crystal that can soak up carbon dioxide gas "like a sponge." Chemists from UCLA believe that the crystals will become a cheap, stable method to absorb emissions at power plants. We discussed a prototype for another CO2 extraction device last year. Quoting:
"'The technical challenge of selectively removing carbon dioxide has been overcome,' said UCLA chemistry professor Omar Yaghi in a statement. The porous structures can be heated to high temperatures without decomposing and can be boiled in water or solvents for a week and remain stable, making them suitable for use in hot, energy-producing environments like power plants. The highly porous crystals also had what the researchers called 'extraordinary capacity for storing CO2': one litre of the crystals could store about 83 litres of CO2."
Another use for dilithium crystals!
Great Scott!
Slurm Extreme.. now with 83 times as much fizz!
Didn't you listen to Reagan, "Trees cause more pollution than automobiles do"
Not listening to Reagan? Friggin' pinkos....
Monstar L
Dont trees already do this, lol?
No, actually CO2 and global temperature are like a couple making love. When one of them makes the first gentle push, the other reacts, which in turn causes a bigger push.
And let me tell you something: you absolutely do not want to get caught between these two deadly lovers, because their love is destructive from our point of view. (And I guess I'm totally missing the target audience here on slashdot with a sex analogy.)
It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile
Be yourself no matter what they say
...thus solving the problem once and for all.
One where the lumber yards obviously think its easier to work with 'metric' wood .. because its easier to multiply with :P
--Ne auderis delere orbem rigidum meum, non erravi pernicose!
Well, "like a sponge", you squeeze it and use it again.
What?
Except for the boobie traps of course..
"If you are going through hell, keep going." - Winston Churchill
Nuclear power plants, OTOH, there's a technology which could help."
Yes, that's the mentally balanced answer!
After all there's nothing more benign a powerplant that outputs high-level "spent" nuclear waste that we have nowhere in the world to store, and is going to remain "hot" for at least another hundred thousand years, not to mention the radioactive contamination left behind when they finally close down, that sees their former site uninhabitable for about the same time as the aforementioned waste.
As for those trifling concerns about how such reactors safely contain and process the constant stream of radioactive steam and water created during their operation, all the aforementioned concerns rightly pale by comparison to the proven unquestionably armageddon-like catastrophic effects of carbon dioxide and smoke particles escaping into the environment.
And if there's one thing we can be unquestionably certain of, it's that absolutely no carbon whatsoever is released into the environment during the extracting, (re)processing, transporting and safe-storage of all that radioactive material. I mean, imagine the dirty bomb they could create if Al Qaeda got their hands on some coal or oil.
Oh please! Won't somebody think of the environment!
Wow, finally someone with the balls to put a name on a criticism -- but not a wise move, since it attaches stupidity to *your* name.
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Your Ubuntu-related paranoia ('"My own actions" are not the cause of this problem'),
I think what you means there is failure to take responsibility, but whatever. That's a pretty stupid example to pick, since in that case, it's proven that my actions were not the cause of the problem, and that statement was 100% accurate. The error I had when trying to install is well-known and well-defined, and something that I couldn't cause. Go ahead -- ask anyone about Error 25 at State 1.5 in GRUB.
Of course, if you sloppily equivocate "this problem" to mean the problem of being unable to get AROUND Ubuntu's locking me out of my computer, you're still clearly wrong, because the install instructions at no point tell me to take the measures that would have allowed me to fix the problem with what I had available, and so no one would have been able to help me, even if I had been polite about their beloved OS's poor design. What does it do instead? It tells me to *disable* measures I had taken (confining Ubuntu to a non-primary hard drive)!
You're damn right that "my own actions" were not the cause of this problem. Just go ahead and do what the rest of them do -- tell me I was stupid to trust a Linux distro's install instructions, but in a way that obscures the asininity of that criticism. Or listen to this guy.
and your Slashdot-related paranoia ('the people that are stalking me')
First, I didn't characterize it as stalking until this guy called it that (before that I just called it an internet hate machine like in that clueless fox story).
Second, there most certainly ARE people modding me down out of hate for me personally instead of because the posts really deserve being modded down. You be the judge. I went ahead and resubscribed just so I could access a few pages back. (And of course the first time I documented this would have been easily accessible except that my karma was terrible at the time and I had to make the summary post as AC! Nope, no inferences to draw from that
Tell me why this chain of downmods, within a short span of time, is fully justified and/or coincidental:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=430222&cid=22182538
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=430222&cid=22185098
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=430222&cid=22185130
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=430222&cid=22189424 (those four all on thread where I criticize anti-IP arguments)
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=435108&cid=22242924 (detailed post where I grudgingly reveal medical history to make a point)
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=435108&cid=22249146 (criticism of poor anti-IP argument)
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=430026&cid=22181566
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=434764&cid=22227472
I could do a lot more -- that's just a sampling.
global warming paranoia ('The purpose, for most such alarmists, is to shut down activity they don't like')...
Unfortunately for you, my theory fits the data. ANY plan that would significantly reduce net carbon emissions while not confining business and while permitting conspicuous consumption is ig
Apology to Ubuntu forum.