[VRW Conspirator]

What is the cost????

[Yossarian]

Hey, I know someone that came up with a great CO2 scrubbing machine a while back:

(I'm sure Sir Richard will be awarding that prize money to the Pope now, right?)

[Question Liberal Authority]

There’s already a machine that can remove carbon dioxide from the air. It’s called a tree.

[xjcsa]

The Lackner team says the captured carbon dioxide could then be pumped into greenhouses to boost plant growth.

Or we could just leave it in the atmosphere...also to promote plant growth.

[prisoner6]

Didn't read the article so I'm probably off base. Let me get this straight...We suck co2 - plant food - out of the air and watch the green stuff die. Am I missing something?

BTW My oldest son and I were kicking around the idea of making a video of someone holding a tree "hostage" and telling the greenies that unless they send us money we'll torch the tree.

We'll use a propane torch to make the tree "scream" and wait for the bucks to roll in. Could even have the greenies do a rescue effort but they'd be too stupid to know how to dig the tree up and transplant it.

Might be worth a few bucks on Break.com.

prisoner6

[dfwgator]

"Commence Operation 'Vacusuck'!"

[Question Liberal Authority]

The Lackner team says the captured carbon dioxide could then be pumped into greenhouses to boost plant growth.

... which will eventually die and then decompose into methane, water vapor, and fossil fuels, starting the whole freaking process over again.

[gridlock]

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.

Here the green weenies tip their hand, yet again. It is not about global warming. It is about control. They want to require greener lifestyles and industries, which will be defined however they want to define them, and the global warming myth is the club they are going to use.

[sionnsar]

The Lackner team says the captured carbon dioxide could then be pumped into greenhouses to boost plant growth.

That's a lot of greenhouses! How about the energy needed to produce all that glass?

[InterceptPoint]

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.

Of course, such a direct solution to a non-problem totally removes the need for the draconian measures that the socialists want. A device like this is their worst nightmare. They will fight it like the plague - proving to all that they really have no interest in the environment (or they don't really believe the Global Warming BS themselves.)

[BroJoeK]

Why does something tell me this will somehow either be vastly too expensive, or it won't really work, or both?

Possibly because the alternative is, it works all too well, and then the VGWC (that's Vast Global Warming Conspiracy ;-)) would have nothing much to complain about -- or to dream up their little international socialist schemes over?

They simply couldn't allow capitalist enterprises to call their bluff...

[oh8eleven]

These global warming jackasses won't rest until they really screw something up.
The end result ...

[FlingWingFlyer]

The "WAR on global warming." LOL!

Ya gotta love how liberal girlymen ALWAYS latch on to "manly" terms to describe things they are doing or farting around with.

[gridlock]

Isn’t it a heck of a lot easier to pull carbon out of an exhaust stream at the point of generation, when it might be 5% or more by volume, than to pull it out of the general atmosphere, where it is 0.03%, at most?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Complete and total nonsense.
In the first place, CO2 does no harm. If a machine were found to control it, some other hobgoblin would be invented by the Left to have us worry about.

[editor-surveyor]

"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.

[frankenMonkey]

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...

[Sacajaweau]

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

[AmericaUnited]

Scientists say they have invented a machine that can suck carbon dioxide out of the air

Plants have been reinvented?

[Rocky]

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.