Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 05/12/2011 4:26:24 PM PDT by PROCON
Mopping carbon dioxide directly from the sky costs too much be an economically viable way to mitigate global warming, a two-year study by 13 physicists has found (press release). One method, using reactive chemicals, would cost at least $600 to remove each tonne of CO2 from the air – around eight times more pricey than capturing the gas from the industrial flue stacks of power plants, the report [pdf] concludes.
The study – published by the American Physical Society on 9 May – doesn’t put a figure on the costs of innovative technologies from researchers and private companies who claim to be able to capture CO2 from air more cheaply.
(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.nature.com ...
Hmm, I wonder how much this "scientific study" cost us?
What a load of Crap!
Ping!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTSWdHY9Ny4
The technology is there, but not the funding.
We just need to increase the US Sub fleet and put out an order that all submarines in the world run C02 scrubbers when in port with the hatches open.
Thank you so much.
The global warming idiots need to be resisted!!!!!!!!
Plant more trees, dude.
Nonsense. I suppose those of us who tend to hyperventilate make it worse. We’ll be going around breathing in paper bags, definitely a menace to the planet.
I know something that is VERY effective at removing Carbon Dioxide: its called “Plants”. Amazingly you don’t need to spend anything, they love Carbon Dioxide and will multiply all by themselves.
All we can do to effectively fight this is to aggressively and forcibly reduce the world's population; eat a raw-foods, vegan diet; strictly adhere to the natural diurnal cycle without any artificial light or heat; outlaw fires; hand make all tools or implements from natural materials....
NOTE: the above does not apply to our overlords, who will be charged with enforcing the regulations upon the rest of us, for our own good.
There is already an innovative technology out there that for all intents and purposes is free. It is called trees. We don’t even need to plant more of them because studies have proven that when carbon dioxide rises in the air they grow faster and absorb more carbon. Idiots.
Very well, then. From this day forward, I forswear all sucking of carbon dioxide.
I can suggest something they can suck.
I have listened to these nuts for years now and I have a couple of simple questions: What is the optimum temperature for the Earth. Exactly what temperature is the "best" temperature for us to be. They were screaming about global warming; but, what is the temperature that the Earth is supposed to be? Also, how much carbon dioxide do we need to remove. If it is a "toxic" gas, shouldn't we remove all of it? And if we did, what would happen?
Again, on the last question, hubby told me all the plants would die, and then we would die. I just read yesterday that some Colorado university is being accused of falsifying the data that they were collecting for the rise in the oceans (because the oceans were not cooperating and were not rising high enough). How do so many scientifically challenged and ethically challenged people get to have so much say about how we live our lives?
As anyone who has tried to keep weeds at bay knows, they are fecund and aggressive. You can't stop them, even if you wanted to.
I would also suggest growing grass on the roof while one is at it!!! Give the landscape industry some demand for employment too!
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