Posted on 08/20/2015 2:53:15 PM PDT by JimSEA
American Chemical Society Summary: Finding a technology to shift carbon dioxide, the most abundant anthropogenic greenhouse gas, from a climate change problem to a valuable commodity has long been a dream. Now, a team of chemists says they have developed a technology to economically convert atmospheric CO2 directly into highly valued carbon nanofibers for industrial and consumer products.
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This is great. Might make carbon reduction worthwhile. Until of coarse they complain about carbon dioxide depletion.
If this tries to move forward the powers that be will try to squash it...
Sounds good. “Diamonds in the sky” is better than pie in the sky.
I didn’t see anywhere in the article how much CO2 they envisage using. It doesn’t sound like enough to put a dent in power-plant emissions.
The Weekly Standard recently had an article on using power-plant CO2 emissions, to pump undergrown for enhanced oil recovery.
Using CO2 for enhanced oil recovery has been profitably done for a long time, but it’s limited to being currently feasible only where there’s naturally occurring CO2 compounds to use.
The Weekly Standard article envisaged using power-plant emissions to ramp up enhanced oil recovery. It may be pie in the sky, but the writer made an interesting case.
Yeah. They will take the Carbon Dioxide down to Ice Age levels.
They will squash it like a bug since it seems to be economically viable.
This will be great until it gets to the point that
someone complains about a loss of CO2 and the earth
swimming in carbon nanofibers.
You KNOW that is coming...
Almost everyone at this stage sees “pie in the sky” profits and carbon usage but the article promotes it as significant agains the demand for the fiber.
You bought into the CO2 is a Pollutant or a Problem Lie?
Sheesh
No, I don’t buy into CO2 being a problem.
But if CO2 emissions could be profitably used for enhanced oil recovery, it sounds good to me.
However, if we can’t even build a conventional Keystone pipeline, I don’t see us building the infrastructure to use power-plant CO2.
BTW, the greenies would hate the idea of using CO2 to recover more oil, which they also hate.
“BTW, the greenies would hate the idea of using CO2 to recover more oil, which they also hate.”
Blaspheme their sacred cow.
CO2 is a greenhouse gas as is methane and other gases. The question is whether or not the amount that can be attributed to humans is sufficient to change or even affect the climate. Studies are all over the place and much of the additional CO2 goes into various sinks. There is no general theory of climate as it is a hugely complex subject.
My opinion is that it isn’t a factor at this point, climate change happens constantly throughout geologic history. I can’t guess what is coming.
Mars has a lot of excess CO2. It would be handy to have plentiful locally generated carbon fiber composites on Mars too.
That would be a good use. Using or smelting any local minerals would be difficult.
Pretty not new.
Artificial diamonds have been around for a long time.
This is a new technique or process for producing carbon fiber used in the construction of airframes and such.
“Yeah. They will take the Carbon Dioxide down to Ice Age levels.”
At which point all fossil fuels and wood will be banned for all uses, only solar, wind, and hydro will be permitted power sources.
Heat and AC for elite, none for you and me.
“Let them eat cake “ ...
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