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Natural Gas "Cleaning" Extracts Valuable Waste Carbon
Al writes "There's been a lot of focus on "clean coal" lately, but a Canadian start-up called Atlantic Hydrogen is developing a way to make natural gas more environmentally friendly. The process involves using a plasma reactor to separate hydrogen and methane in the gas. The procedure also turns carbon emissions into high-purity carbon black, a substance that is used to make inks, plastics and reinforced rubber products. Utility companies could potentially sell the carbon black, making the process more financially attractive."
Air/Hydro Electric Generation. Hell, with the 2TR we've spent on Iraq, we could be ridiculously energy independent with electricity by now... But... I mean... If you still just want to combust shit because it sounds cool... Well.. I mean, we can always say the seagulls won't like getting hit by windmill blades and pretend its just as bad.
That's what people do to keep these stupid archaic systems (and the money behind them) in place -- make efforts to change small things that have relatively no *real* impact, while finding small things to point at and smear the image of an option that would have dramatic impact.
Get your facts from science and the actual state of technology we have today. We could seriously build robots to detect and sort all of the worlds waste dumps and basically recycle all of the things we thought would just remain as filthy trash... We've had the ability to harvest amazing electric potential, cleanly, for over two decades -- it is your level of ignorance and susceptibility to $$$-driven information that will determine if you understand or not.