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New CO2 Harvester Could Help Scrub the Air

Posted by Soulskill on from the plantlife-now-obsolete dept.

sciencehabit sends this excerpt from ScienceNOW: "Researchers in California have produced a cheap plastic capable of removing large amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air. Down the road, the new material could enable the development of large-scale batteries and even form the basis of 'artificial trees' that lower atmospheric concentrations of CO2 in an effort to stave off catastrophic climate change."

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  1. oh noes! by alphatel · · Score: 4, Funny

    But Global Warming was going to prevent the impending ice age!

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  2. And once we have a few gigatonnes of CO2 by overshoot · · Score: 5, Funny
    We can launch it into space. OK, maybe not.

    How about we bury it at Yucca Mountain? Dissolve it in seawater?

    I HAVE IT! We separate the carbon and the oxygen, release the O2 into the atmosphere, and bury the carbon in abandoned coal mines!

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  3. Will somebody think of the plant children by jader3rd · · Score: 4, Funny

    Great, now once we remove all of the CO2 out of the air, what will the plants breath?

  4. Brilliant! by ErikZ · · Score: 5, Funny

    I was going to just plant some trees, but covering my property in plastic seems like a much better idea!

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  5. Re:Massive farms of artificial trees... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    *CO2 floats away*

    To where?

    Narnia.

  6. Re:Massive farms of artificial trees... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I often wonder where people who deny pollution is having any effect on the earth think they are going to live if they are wrong.

    On their yacht?

  7. Re:How are you going to power that? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just FYI: An apostrophe doesn't always mean Look out! An "S" is on the way!

  8. Simple Answer by GigG · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's make all water and soda bottles out of it and require littering.

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  9. Re:Dunno what you'd call me by LtGordon · · Score: 1, Funny

    But how do you patent a tree and retire a millionaire after the IPO?

    I'm no biblical scholar but isn't that what God did?

  10. Re:Massive farms of artificial trees... by aurispector · · Score: 4, Funny

    If only they could figure out a way to make them self replicating, then set them up to turn the CO2 into something useful, I don't know, how about (and I know it's crazy) sugar? And the whole thing could be solar powered, yeah that's the ticket...

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  11. Re:Massive farms of artificial trees... by Time_Ngler · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since oil produces CO2, why not just cut out the middle man and turn oil into plastic and dump that in a landfill?