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MIT engineers develop a new way to remove carbon dioxide from air
mit.edu ^ | October 24, 2019 | David Chandler

Posted on 10/28/2019 3:58:39 PM PDT by grundle

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To: metmom

It’s hillarious. I think Shell Oil has a TV commercial talking about “developing technologies that can absorb CO2 from the atmosphere”.

If things were as dire as claimed they’d be subsidizing planting trees. Hmmm....maybe there’s another agenda? /s


21 posted on 10/28/2019 4:16:03 PM PDT by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: grundle

Horse Pucky! Co2 does NOT cause climate change. It’s a minor atmospheric gas that’s essential for life.


22 posted on 10/28/2019 4:17:03 PM PDT by Bernard Marx
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To: grundle

Yup, manage CO2 just like they manage the electric grid in california.


23 posted on 10/28/2019 4:18:57 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: Lurkinanloomin

“Remove enough CO2 from the air and you can extinguish life on earth.......”

Shhh! They be genius.


24 posted on 10/28/2019 4:19:37 PM PDT by dljordan
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Suuuuure, they’ve found a way to starve the trees ... wonderful. Soon enough, there’s no oxygen. Some people are too smart for their own good - “If it ain’t broke, DON’T FIX IT!”


25 posted on 10/28/2019 4:19:52 PM PDT by Spacetrucker (George Washington didn't use his freedom of speech to defeat the British - HE SHOT THEM .. WITH GUNS)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Remove enough CO2 from the air and you can extinguish life on earth.......


that’s the idea, and then, the perfect climate will be at last achieved ... and the deniers said it couldn’t be done!


26 posted on 10/28/2019 4:20:53 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: grundle

I think planting trees would be cheaper.


27 posted on 10/28/2019 4:21:38 PM PDT by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: rightwingcrazy

I think that I shall never see a polyanthraquinone lovely as a tree...


28 posted on 10/28/2019 4:22:32 PM PDT by fhayek
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To: JBW1949

Yeah...Who needs grass, trees, plant life????


or the oxygen they create? HUH? Who?


29 posted on 10/28/2019 4:22:34 PM PDT by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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To: grundle

Sail powered cruise ship full of liberals to Antarctica?


30 posted on 10/28/2019 4:24:01 PM PDT by G Larry (There is no great virtue in bargaining with the Devil)
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To: grundle

Invent a cheap, quick and effective way to remove carbon dioxide from the air, and you will soon find out that the whole Climate Change movement, and all of the controls they want to place on every facet of human existence, was, hey, big surprise, never really about carbon dioxide. It was about the now-discovered MUCH MORE SERIOUS threat that requires exactly the same controls, only more so.

Kind of like the way the whistle-blower inspired impeachment circus has determined that it doesn’t actually need the whistle blower.


31 posted on 10/28/2019 4:27:59 PM PDT by Flash Bazbeaux
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To: InterceptPoint
Plus, a real bonus, there would no longer be an AOC and her Squad.

Getting rid of that caterwauling slut might just be worth it...
32 posted on 10/28/2019 4:28:49 PM PDT by farming pharmer
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To: grundle

Uh, it’s called “plants!”


33 posted on 10/28/2019 4:30:14 PM PDT by FroggyTheGremlim ( The following statement is false. The previous statement is true.)
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To: PIF

Wonder what the climate will be like with no life whatsoever on the planet???


34 posted on 10/28/2019 4:30:41 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: grundle

Do they call this magic invention a ‘tree’? I bet it can even return oxygen back into the atmosphere.

JoMa


35 posted on 10/28/2019 4:32:47 PM PDT by joma89
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To: grundle

Interesting.

But planting trees works fine, they absorb CO2 and release oxygen, while they thrive.


36 posted on 10/28/2019 4:33:16 PM PDT by Innovative
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To: grundle

A solution to a nonexistent problem. CO2 is the limiting factor in photosynthesis. Increase carbon dioxide and plants fix more carbon, growing faster. Nature is remarkably resilient as created by God.


37 posted on 10/28/2019 4:35:53 PM PDT by Fungi
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Bingo .... obviously, MIT and the feeder schools that send stoonts there are very, VERY dumb.


38 posted on 10/28/2019 4:43:37 PM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true..)
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To: grundle

I always thought plants and trees were the most effective instruments to remove carbon-dioxide from air.


39 posted on 10/28/2019 4:44:40 PM PDT by Parmy
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To: grundle

As the battery charges, an electrochemical reaction takes place at the surface of each of a stack of electrodes. These are coated with a compound called polyanthraquinone, which is composited with carbon nanotubes. The electrodes have a natural affinity for carbon dioxide and readily react with its molecules in the airstream or feed gas, even when it is present at very low concentrations.

Or you could plant a tree.


40 posted on 10/28/2019 4:45:07 PM PDT by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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