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Scientists Discover How to Make Carbon Nanotubes Out of Carbon Dioxide
www.popularmechanics.com ^ | May 31, 2018 418 | By David Grossman

Posted on 10/19/2018 11:09:14 AM PDT by Red Badger

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To: Red Badger

The religion of ‘Global Warming’ in a nutshell:

CO2 is a greenhouse gas that threatens Earth with overheating in spite of it being intrinsic to the survival of life on Earth via plant photosynthesis.
  therefor....
CO2 is a pollutant.
  therefor....
CO2 pollution must be reduced to save Earth.
  therefor....
Leftists are good because they fight pollution from CO2 emissions.
  therefor....
'Global Warming' deniers are evil because they don't fight pollution from CO2 emissions.
  therefor....
CO2 is exhaled by humans.
  therefor....
Non-leftist humans must be eliminated and pay for the privilege of being genocided via carbon taxes.

21 posted on 10/19/2018 11:38:13 AM PDT by WMarshal (America First)
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The Earth has had vastly higher levels of CO2 during the course of various geologic eras.

This is a good graph to show to people who are obsessed about the last 100 years.

22 posted on 10/19/2018 11:50:39 AM PDT by Jack Black (See my profile for Muller vs.Trump scorecard and other analysis of various anon claims.)
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To: Red Badger
Scientists at Vanderbilt University in Tennessee, alongside private sector scientists there, have developed a non-traditional way to construct small-diameter carbon nanotubes, called CNTs

Global warming people are a bunch of CNTs.

23 posted on 10/19/2018 11:53:08 AM PDT by Lazamataz (The News Misleadia will be held accountable for their lies.....on the eleventy-first of Nevervember.)
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Here is time scale 440,000 years. (All of human history and pre-history, Homo Sapiens first appearance is approx. 315,000 years ago)


24 posted on 10/19/2018 11:58:14 AM PDT by Jack Black (See my profile for Muller vs.Trump scorecard and other analysis of various anon claims.)
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To: Jack Black
Might it be that we have periodic Ice Ages because CO2 levels are too low? Might it be that we're overdue for an Ice Age, and current CO2 levels are the only thing holding it off?


25 posted on 10/19/2018 12:01:40 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: PapaBear3625

CO2 levels are now at 415... so highest in 400,000 years, per both your chart and mine.


26 posted on 10/19/2018 1:08:11 PM PDT by Jack Black (See my profile for Muller vs.Trump scorecard and other analysis of various anon claims.)
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To: Jack Black
Looking further back, there were times when CO2 levels were quite a bit higher.


27 posted on 10/19/2018 1:39:55 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: Red Badger

More commonly used for health purposes, lithium carbonate is often used in tandem with treatment of mental health disorders.


Make that *three* birds, treatment for leftists being the third.


28 posted on 10/19/2018 2:42:46 PM PDT by Fester Chugabrew (Lock. Her. Up.)
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To: Red Badger

The author needs to go back and take 7th grade science again. This process does NOT remove CO2 from the air, it removes if from lithium carbonate. The amount of CO2 in the air stays exactly the same. In addition, the energy to liberate the carbon requires more burning of fossil fuels than is “captured”. Why not simply use the carbon in coal? Besides all that, the mass of useful nanotubes is trivial compared with the mass of CO2 the Global Warming religious zealots want removed.


29 posted on 10/19/2018 3:40:18 PM PDT by norwaypinesavage (The stone age didn't end because we ran out of stones.)
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To: rarestia
The main cause of global warming, carbon dioxide is a heat-trapping gas that is released through using fossil fuels

I made it to here....

30 posted on 10/19/2018 4:57:10 PM PDT by super7man (Madam Defarge, knitting, knitting, always knitting)
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To: Red Badger

I haven’t cranked the numbers, but I strongly suspect any CO2 -—to-—> carbon nanotubes reaction is going to be exergonic - it’s going to be a process that’s uphill in energy.

And if I’m right and you’ve got to put a pile of energy into the process to get it to go, I doubt you’re going to get that energy from sunshine or your friendly neighborhood windmill - not if you have to work with a molten salt at a temperature of over 700 degrees.


31 posted on 10/19/2018 5:02:37 PM PDT by Stosh
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To: rarestia

Why are they constantly pounding this “carbon dioxide is poison” schtick?
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Same reason they keep pounding the communism work! we just ain’t done it right yet! schtick.

They’re evil and idiots.


32 posted on 10/19/2018 5:03:48 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Red Badger

How about feeding it to plants? You know, air for plants? Going green? Save the Planet type stuff.


33 posted on 10/19/2018 5:08:52 PM PDT by YogicCowboy ("I am not entirely on anyone's side, because no one is entirely on mine." - J. R. R. Tolkien)
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To: Red Badger
How preposterous is this?

Mankind puts out 1010 tons of CO2 per year.

How many devices that weigh 10-10 tons would have to be made every year to put a dent in CO2 output?

Maybe if every human being on the planet needed ten million of them every year.

34 posted on 10/19/2018 6:01:31 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Inert, colorless, odorless, and essential to life. Is there anything more harmful than that? (/s in case you cannot tell)

These authors are just INCREDIBLY STUPID. How they get hired as "science" writers is beyond me.

35 posted on 10/19/2018 6:03:46 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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Look at your chart X-axis for 14,000 years ago and you see the temperature was 8C (14F) colder than today. This was the result of the cyclical cooling:

We were in the Cabinet Mountains in Western Montana last week where, 14,000 years ago, the area was under 3,500 feet of ice. And that was at the very southern leading edge of the huge ice sheets that covered much of North America. That was not very long ago when you think about it.

36 posted on 10/19/2018 6:11:06 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: norwaypinesavage

“mass of useful nanotubes is trivial compared with the mass of CO2 the Global Warming religious zealots want removed.”

I made the same comment before reading yours. See #34.


37 posted on 10/19/2018 6:19:30 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Red Badger

Propaganda.

“The main cause of global warming is CO2.” Just plain false on many fronts.

Assuming you buy many of their assumptions, water vapor has about 100 time the concentration as co2. (Ps - this is rarely mentioned because mankind does not impact atmospheric water at all.)


38 posted on 10/19/2018 6:28:44 PM PDT by Triple (Socialism denies people the right to the fruits of their labor, and is as abhorrent as slavery)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

And that would have lasted longer if something didn’t hit the sheet going several thousand miles an hour and melt a shitload of ice.


39 posted on 10/19/2018 6:37:47 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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It’s also interesting how, at the end of the last glacial period, the great ice dams failed unleashing HUGE floods across the now-western states (see Missoula Flood and Bonneville Flood). Then things froze up again, the huge lakes re-formed, the ice dams broke again unleashing more gigantic floods. The flood waters were 500 feet deep flowing to the pacific scouring everything in their path. These massive freeze/thaw cycles happened several times.


40 posted on 10/19/2018 7:08:13 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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