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Removing CO2 From the Air Efficiently
Canadian scientists have created a device that efficiently removes CO2 from the atmosphere. "The proposed air capture system differs from existing carbon capture and storage technology ... while CCS involves installing equipment at, say, a coal-fired power plant to capture CO2 produced during the coal-burning process, ... air capture machines will be able to literally remove the CO2 present in ambient air everywhere. [The team used] ... a custom-built tower to capture CO2 directly from the air while requiring less than 100 kilowatt-hours of electricity per tonne of carbon dioxide."
G-God? Is that you?
> Canadian scientists have created a device that efficiently removes CO2 from the atmosphere.
As a Canadian, I have to say I'm disappointed in my fellow countrymen. Just when you thought global warming would make our climate mildly tolerable, they go and mess it all up.
Thanks, guys. I'm sure you'll regret this in a few months. No, I will not shovel your driveway.
Oh honestly, you green bottomed hairy hippie! Why plant trees that will cleanly and effectively remove the carbon from the air, when we can invent a MACHINE to do it that will use electricity and require parts and labour and all that? You greenies and your whacky nature ideas. Honestly! How exactly do trees generate jobs?
I suppose you eat dolphin safe tuna as well?!
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Don't we have a device that removes CO2 from the air? I thought they were called "trees."
I hooked a tree up to 100kW, and it added CO2 to the air instead.
Man! Cut it out!
It's THREE steps, not four, and you CAN'T specify the intermediate one! Jeezuz...
Send your spendthrift head of state this
I still think creating a time travel device, going back and assassinating Al Gore and IPCC key members will end this global warming problem.
While we're at it, I hope you won't mind if we put two leads in Col. Korn's head. Later, I'd like to murder Havermeyer and Appleby. After we do those two, we can kill McWatt.
Just wonder how much do we have to wait for a fart capture device
Thank you, Argentina.
"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him." - Tolkien
Strangely, typing "trees" instead of "tree's" is both easier, and correct, and you haven't done it. I'd say our Canadian friends are on to something.
If apostrophes meant "ZOMGHereComesAnS", we would type "treeZOMGHereComesAnSs", but they don't, so we don't.
How exactly do trees generate jobs?
Well...people could be paid to plant them. Yeah, I know that trees can do this on their own....but can they do it in nice neat rows?
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I suppose you eat dolphin safe tuna as well?!
No, but I do eat tuna safe dolphines. hmmm
These comments are my personal opinions and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of the other voices in my head.
Human's are fascinated with Rube Goldberg-type machines. It would be even better if there were balls rolling around an endless track as part of the process...
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Oh dear, I hadn't thought of that.
*poof*
That's a great idea ... we could even employ people to selectively cut the trees down, and others to mill the timber, and others to make things with it. I think it's possible to come up with a viable business model where we sell people products made from converted atmospheric carbon.
I'm off to the patent office!
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So we need to kill all the vegetarians, right?
AT&ROFLMAO
Hockey sticks?
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Well, IIRC, you can burn H2 and CO2 and produce H2O and CO, so yes, assuming you had a ready supply of hydrogen, you could create some kind of internal combustion engine to burn off your captured CO2 and produce clean, pure water. Oh, and pure, clean carbon monoxide as well. Watch out when the atmospheric levels of that stuff starts to rise ...
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
Hey, you're right ...
(runs to patent office)
I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest.
Silly person, there is PLENTY of need for tree products in times like this! Have you EVER looked at the PAPERWORK needed to declare an economic downturn, let alone a depression?!?
Go to Neptune, sample the core, and return it to the earth.
I typed it out easily enough, so it must be that simple!
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A friend of mine spent a fair amount of time planting trees.
Green side up was their mantra