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

    *CO2 floats away*

    To where?

    Narnia.

  4. 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?

  5. 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!