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Machine to Clean Up Greenhouse Gas is Breakthrough in War on Global Warming, Say Scientists
dailymail.co.uk ^ | May 31, 2008

Posted on 05/31/2008 4:05:10 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY

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To: Free ThinkerNY
"Scientists say they have invented a machine that can suck carbon dioxide out of the air"

My yard is full of machines that suck CO2 out of the air....

They're called Oak Trees; and the little ones are called blades of grass.

21 posted on 05/31/2008 4:21:20 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American History)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
What sort of power will this thing need? and where will it come from?

Oh, I know... electricity. We'll jut plug them in to the magic sockets on the wall, where the energy just magically appears...

22 posted on 05/31/2008 4:21:44 PM PDT by frankenMonkey (101st Airborne Army Dad)
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To: Yossarian

Hah!


23 posted on 05/31/2008 4:21:45 PM PDT by spanalot
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To: Free ThinkerNY

And when plants start dying...what do we do...pump it back??


24 posted on 05/31/2008 4:23:21 PM PDT by Sacajaweau ("The Cracker" will be renamed "The Crapper")
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To: prisoner6
"Am I missing something?"

Yes, it's called pagan environmentalism, a form of Hinduism, AKA the Death Culture.

25 posted on 05/31/2008 4:23:49 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Jimmy Carter is the skidmark in the panties of American History)
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To: Free ThinkerNY
Scientists say they have invented a machine that can suck carbon dioxide out of the air

Plants have been reinvented?

26 posted on 05/31/2008 4:28:01 PM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: Free ThinkerNY
This just shows that some scientists will do anything to get research dollars.

These folks should be embarrassed. What nonsense.

1) CO2 has not really been proven to cause global warming. It follows temperature increases on the earth, it doesn't precede them.

2) Plants are good at absorbing CO2 and converting it to hydrocarbons. Why not plant more plants?

3) Has anyone done the calculations to see how many of these devices they would have to build, how they would compress and transport the CO2 to greenhouses, how many air-tight greenhouses they would have to build?

The engineering challenges would be mind-boggling, and the costs would be also. And what about the CO2 generated by energy used to compress the CO2? What nonsense.

27 posted on 05/31/2008 4:28:59 PM PDT by Rocky
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To: VRW Conspirator

What does it matter how much it costs? It will be altogether ineffective anyway, not even able to keep up with a field of corn during the month of July, where if you listen closely, you can literally hear the crop growing, as the nodes elongate in discrete bursts.

The goal here is to drizzle away as much money as possible so it is not available for any productive purpose. The very opposite of the concept of capitalism.


28 posted on 05/31/2008 4:30:39 PM PDT by alloysteel (The Obamajesty exerting its Obamagic. What nirvana, what bliss!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Couldn’t it actually do harm to the Earth and many species of plants and crops to remove a large amount of CO2 from the atmosphere? These hoaxsters are going to be the end of us all.


29 posted on 05/31/2008 4:31:48 PM PDT by montag813
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To: Sacajaweau
And when plants start dying...what do we do...pump it back??

Then we'll have mandatory SUV driving.

30 posted on 05/31/2008 4:32:46 PM PDT by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Checkmate Cruiser")
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To: Free ThinkerNY
The idea is bound to be controversial, with environmentalists seeing so-called technological solutions to global warming as undermining attempts to promote greener lifestyles and industries.

Which goes to prove that Socialism and state control are their true motivation.

31 posted on 05/31/2008 4:33:04 PM PDT by montag813
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To: count-your-change

Gen 3:8 And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden. The Pope was nowhere to be found !!


32 posted on 05/31/2008 4:34:14 PM PDT by Colorado Cowgirl (God bless America!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

Two comments:

1. When are they going to do something about all the dihydrogen oxide in the air? Don’t they realize how many people die due to elevated levels of dihydrogen oxide at high temperature?

2. How much coal will it take to produce the energy to run the CO2 scrubber?


33 posted on 05/31/2008 4:34:45 PM PDT by Hazwaste (Vote! Vote for the conservative local, state, and national candidates of your choice, but VOTE!)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

SO2 scrubbers have been around for a long time.


34 posted on 05/31/2008 4:38:39 PM PDT by Retired Chemist
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To: Colorado Cowgirl

See post# 3. “(I’m sure Sir Richard will be awarding that prize money to the Pope now, right?)”


35 posted on 05/31/2008 4:40:10 PM PDT by count-your-change (you don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: Yossarian

Yep.

Plant more trees. Natural CO2 scrubers.

Oooops - too easy and too cheap.


36 posted on 05/31/2008 4:41:43 PM PDT by roaddog727 (BS does not get bridges built - the funk you see is the funk you do)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

The trees won’t be happy.


37 posted on 05/31/2008 4:44:39 PM PDT by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

SAVE THE TREES!!!


38 posted on 05/31/2008 4:53:51 PM PDT by golfisnr1 (Democrats are like roaches - hard to get rid of.)
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To: Free ThinkerNY

If changing the climate of a planet is this easy, let’s get cracking on Mars.


39 posted on 05/31/2008 4:58:03 PM PDT by Mediocrates
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To: Free ThinkerNY

It’s a great idea: Fight junk science with junk science.


40 posted on 05/31/2008 5:03:23 PM PDT by Brilliant
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