[pabianice]

Anyone see the comedy here from a guy whose jet fleet pumps millions of pounds of crud into the atmosphere?

[hardworking]

Cool! Er...Hot! Whatever.

[3niner]

Let's see, CO2 is a byproduct of human energy consumption, so let's use lots more energy to get rid of it. Yeah, that's the ticket.

[capt. norm]

$25 million prize

It was going to be $24,999,999.00 so generous Al chipped in to bring it up to $25 million.

[MUSIC]
"Happy happy joy joy,
Happy happy joy joy....."

[just a dude]

I nominate Johnny Appleseed!

[AmericaUnited]

I'll invent plants that use carbon dioxide!!! I WIN!

[Restore]

Can someone point me to the actual challenge, i.e. the specifics of it?

[TheDon]

Sir Richard Branson on Friday announced a $25 million prize for the scientist who comes up with a way to extract greenhouse gases from the atmosphere

Here's two:

Me thinks Sir Branson is too cheap to pay me however.

[smonk]

here are a couple:

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[<1/1,000,000th%]

Sir Richard Branson and algore are bribing global warming scientists???

[Restore]

Can someone point me to the actual challenge, i.e. the specifics of it?

Oops, found it.

[Centurion2000]

LONDON -- Sir Richard Branson on Friday announced a $25 million prize for the scientist who comes up with a way to extract greenhouse gases from the atmosphere

It's called forest and plankton farming, where's my check!?!?!?!

[Dr. Frank fan]

the challenge to find the world's first viable design to capture and remove carbon dioxide from the air.

Main Entry: ²plant
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English plante, from Old English, from Latin planta
1 a : a young tree, vine, shrub, or herb planted or suitable for planting b : any of a kingdom (Plantae) of multicellular eukaryotic mostly photosynthetic organisms typically lacking locomotive movement or obvious nervous or sensory organs and possessing cellulose cell walls

[Sherman Logan]

Any machine would have to process enormous volumes of air, as CO2 is only about 400 ppm. This means a 100% efficient process would have to process 2500 kilograms of air to remove 1 kilogram of CO2.

[AndyTheBear]

The vast majority of "green house" gases is water vapor. And extracting it is trivial.

[Fluke Codewriter]

Besides Plants and Plankton... let's Imagine for a second that this Device works.

WHO is to judge How Much CO2 to remove? What if a Tad Too Much is removed? Trees start dying all over the place. We then end up on a Death Spiral - even if the machines are turned off, the Balance was upset, we get Increased CO2 with a Lack of Trees to filter it. Wildlife starts perishing. Insects gone. Ain't no Mulligans on this one. Sometimes, I just want to screem at this Lemming Insanity.

[AndyTheBear]

"Could it be possible to find someone on Earth who could devise a way of removing the lethal amount of CO2 from the Earth's atmosphere?"

And what about the lethal amounts of oxygen? Excuse me while I take a sip of C02 laden water (soda).

[xcamel]

FReepmail me to get on or off

~Branson is a (very rich) Joke.~

[montag813]

I have the solution. Stick this hose into Michael Moore's ass, and the other end into an underground cavern.

[greasepaint]

only a moron believes any of this