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.
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...
Mars has a lot of excess CO2. It would be handy to have plentiful locally generated carbon fiber composites on Mars too.
Pretty not new.
Artificial diamonds have been around for a long time.