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To: SunkenCiv
I wonder .... Currently, Carbon Dioxide is less than 0.1% of the atmosphere (300 to 400 ppm). If the output of a syngas generation facility were cooled and then piped into a large greenhouse to increase the CO2 concentration (say up to 3,000 ppm) but stay below the threshold set by Federal Exposure Standard (5,000 ppm), would the plants be able to "take up" the excess CO2?

Would this "plant favorable" environment actually improve plant growth and possible food production???
13 posted on 02/17/2007 9:36:15 PM PST by taxcontrol
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To: taxcontrol

Syngas generates around 30,000 ppm CO2.


16 posted on 02/17/2007 11:02:18 PM PST by I got the rope
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To: taxcontrol

It would work better with some plants than others, but the amount of greenhouse needed would be enormous. This would be better:

The Prophet of Garbage
[url deleted] | March 2007 issue | Michael Behar
Posted on 02/16/2007 8:07:13 AM EST by Red Badger
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1785861/posts


20 posted on 02/18/2007 7:36:59 PM PST by SunkenCiv (I last updated my profile on Thursday, February 15, 2007. https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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