Climate's magic rabbit: Pulling CO2 out of thin air

BBC News ^ | November 15, 2017 | By Matt McGrath

[Revolutionary]

We are all going to die of oxygen starvation if they keep going this way. All oxygen comes from CO2 (discounting what the submarine guys breath). I am sure they are also hurting old growth trees. Now where is that liberal tree hugger that is screaming and crying at the same time about old growth trees, etc.

[12chachacha]

This is RACIST. Some selected plants get extra CO while others are deprived. The poor free range plants are deprived because of the RACIST 1% who use up more then their “fair share”.

[katana]

PETV (People for the Ethical Treatment of Vegetation) need to get going on this.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Oldeconomybuyer.

While CO2 concentrations are now higher than they have been in at least 800,000 years, the gas still only accounts for a tiny 0.04% of our atmosphere.

Yeah, weird, huh? Based on proxy data, the CO2 level has risen by 100 parts per million since about 1850 -- according to the AGW demagogues, more than enough to cause the atmosphere and the ocean depths to behave in ways contrary to the laws of thermodynamics.

[COBOL2Java]

This machine needs energy. That energy most come from somewhere.

Does anyone see how stupid this is? It’s using energy to provide a richer mix of Co2 for a select few plants. Duh.

The CO2 that you have “removed” formerly went to ALL the plants on Earth. You are concentrating it and giving it now to a very small number of plants. You are cutting back on the CO2 available to the the vast mass of plants on the surface of earth, and so fewer plants will grow and the CO2 will increase to the level where it was before you started your stupid machine.

Your damn Co2 is going to leak out of your damn greenhouse eventually, and go into the atmosphere anyway.

Big waste of energy for nothing.

What a$$holes.

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They're not the a$$holes. They're being paid nicely for this wasteful gizmo. The a$$holes are the moronic authorities who are funding them.

[zeugma]

It can capture about 900 tonnes of CO2 every year. It is then pumped to a large greenhouse a few hundred metres away, where it helps grow bigger vegetables.

And apparently no one sees the problem with this. All they are doing is temporarily capturing CO₂ at great, unnecessary expense.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

We already have devices that do that. They're called "plants." It would be much less expensive to grow a few billion more of these "plants" than to produce millions of these machines.

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[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

Yes, and if, for each 0.01% uptick in CO₂, people simply planted a few million more of these "trees", things would work out nicely.

[Rocky]

They never seem to tell the whole story in these articles. Draw a bubble around the whole process and tell us how much energy is going in (electricity, natural gas, etc.), how much CO2 is collected, how much of the collected CO2 goes into larger vegetables versus going back into the atmosphere? How much does this system cost, and what are the economic benefits?

I’m guessing the whole story would be pretty pathetic.

[Paradox]

I have always thought that, _IF_ the day ever comes when we realize that CO2 really is a horrific thing, then ultimately its Technology that will come to the rescue.

[Still Thinking]

a Swiss company called Climewanks

I'll say.