[Thalos]

It has no description of how economic it is, but suppose they can scale it up large enough to let us "recycle" all of our CO2. Wow.

[chopperman]

Let’s see here. We rid this world’s air of harmful CO2 and replace it with beneficial carbon monoxide. This can only be proposed from a California school.

[danneskjold]

We’re Saved!!!

[kinoxi]

What are they doing with the carbon monoxide again?

[Battle Axe]

Another way to do the same thing is to use microbes to convert the light energy through photosynthesis to covalent bonds in sugars, then convert the sugars (fixed carbon which comes from CO2) to diesel.

The only thing we have to do is buy diesel vehicles.

[edcoil]

What are the trees suppose to do?

[SteveMcKing]

I guarantee - without any doubt or question - that no matter how carbon emissions or global warming are “solved”, IT WILL NOT SATISFY THE ECO-NAZIS.

They will instantly find something else to moan about. They will continue to make all the same demands they are making now: that we change our lives, pay more taxes, and obey their stupid policies.

[bw17]

Plus, we get the additional benefit of less anthropogenic CO2 since the carbon monoxide should kill most of the Earth’s inhabitants.

[UglyinLA]

Algore needs to lead by example... he should mount one of these puppies on the roof of his house.

[H.Akston]

Kubiak and Sathrum need to watch their backs if their idea is good and not public enough to survive them.

Its interesting that cars’ catalytic converters convert CO into CO2.

[Doogle]

..but but but, Algore will lose money with his carbon credit company

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Nothing new. Google “Producer gas” and see what turns up.

[Political Junkie Too]

It doesn't matter. The environmentalists will never let one be built.

-PJ

[TheZMan]

One of these days we’ll be “recycling” all our CO2 so well that we won’t have any CO2 in the atmosphere at all. Huzzah!

Of course, no one mentions the fact that... plants need CO2 to photosynthesize, or that CO2 contributes roughly 12% of the greenhouse effect and that completely removing it from the atmosphere would likely dump us into a very severe ice age.

But what do I know.

[org.whodat]

The amazing process produces CO (carbon monoxide) which can be processed by bacterial fermentation to produce ethanol, and massive amounts industrial chemicals used to produce plastics. By splitting CO2 you can save fuel, produce useful chemicals and eliminate global warming greenhouse gases.

What no apple pie and ice cream???

[Delacon]

This from a different and a bit more detailed article. Read the other article.

“Because their device is not yet optimized, they still need to input additional energy for the process to work. However, they hope that their results, which they presented at last month’s meeting of the American Chemical Society, will draw attention to the promise of the approach.”
http://www.physorg.com/news96107693.html

I hope it works out though. If it does, I wonder theory the left will think up to replace global warming to cripple the US economy.

[tickmeister]

Since CO2 is dispersed in the atmosphere at a concentration of about .05%, gotta wonder how they plan to catch hold of the stuff. Maybe butterfly nets.

[T'wit]

Why don't we convert the surplus CO2 into 7-Up and Coca-Cola? Then we could just drink all the Global Warming.

[Stallone]

Recipe for End of Global Warming Crisis

Material List
1 Wooden Armchair
2 Rolls of Ducttape
1 Pair of Scissors
1 Bottle of Dom Perignon
1 Champagne Flute

Procedure
1. Secure Al Gore to Wooden Armchair with Roll #1 of Ducttape - cut tape with Scissors;
2. Secure Al Gore’s mouth with Roll #2 of Ducttape - cut tape with Scissors;
3. Open Bottle of Dom Perignon and fill Champagne Flute;
4. Celebrate end of Global Warming crisis. Imbibe generously. Smile.

[calex59]

Let me see: CO2 is one of the essential gasses for the survival of this planet, we need it for plants to thrive and produce oxygen. CO is a deadly gas that will kill humans pretty quickly as anyone who has ever seen someone inhale car exhaust to commit suicide can attest. So, in their infinite wisdom these idiots are going to get rid of CO2, the good gas, and replace it with CO, the bad gas. Can't wait for that to happen./SAR.

We have truely become a planet full of idiots.

[sourcery]

You can't stop global warming by reducing (or even eliminating) carbon dioxide emissions--because global warming is caused by the Sun, and not by carbon dioxide: Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide

Basic References:

• Hostages to a hoax
• Sun's Output Increasing in Possible Trend Fueling Global Warming
• Solar variability and global warming: a statistical comparison since 1850 (PDF)
• Can solar variability explain global warming since 1970? (PDF)
• Variations in solar luminosity and their effects on Earth's climate (PDF)
• The Myth of Dangerous Human-Caused Climate Change (PDF)
• Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide
• Geophysical, archeological and historical evidence support a solar-output model for climate change (PDF)
• Gamma rays and climate (PDF)
• Linkages between solar activity, climate predictability and water resource development (PDF)
• Proof on Ice: Southern Greenland Was Once Green; Earth Warmer
• Global Warming and Nature's Thermostat
• The Past and Future of Climate (PDF)
• The Great Global Warming Swindle
• IceCap

Lawrence Solomon's "The Deniers" (a series of articles on the view of scientists who have been labelled "Global Warming Deniers"):

• Science, not politics
• Statistics needed
• The original denier: into the cold
• End the chill
• They call this a consensus?
• The limits of predictability
• Unsettled science
• Models trump measurements
• The ice-core man
• The hurricane expert who stood up to UN junk science
• Polar scientists on thin ice
• The sun moves climate change
• Bright sun, warm Earth. Coincidence?
• Look to Mars for the truth on global warming
• Read the sunspots
• Forget warming - beware the new ice age
• Little Ice Age is still with us
• Fighting climate 'fluff'

Other References:

• Alarmist global warming claims melt under scientific scrutiny
• The Global Warming Myth
• Father of Climatology Throws Up at the Thought of Al Gore's 'An Inconvenient Truth'
• IPCC Scientists Challenge Al Gore’s View of Global Warming Consensus
• Swedish Scientist Accuses UN's IPCC of Falsifying Data and Destroying Evidence
• CO2 Science
• Global Warming and Climate Forcing by Recent Albedo Changes on Mars
• Climate Momentum Shifting: Prominent Scientists Reverse Belief in Man-made Global Warming - Now Skeptics
• The Real 'Inconvenient Truth'
• New findings indicate today's greenhouse gas levels not unusual
• Climate Change: Incorrect information on pre-industrial CO2
• Global Warming as a Religion
• I Was On the Global Warming Gravy Train (By David Evans)
• Global Warming: it's not caused by greenhouse gases says academic
• Still Waiting for Greenhouse
• GREENIE WATCH
• Why Global Warming Would be Good for You
• Temperature vs. Cosmic Ray Flux
• Global Warming Primer (PDF)
• Global Warming: An Official Pseudoscience
• Fiddler On The Roof
• Debating Global Warming
• Climate Resistance