[LibWhacker]

Once again environmental alarmists have jumped the gun and discounted human ingenuity. To them we're just a bunch of dumb animals that don't have the brains not to walk off the cliffs that are all around us.

[pepsionice]

I think this Michigan Technological University professor deserves the Nobel Prize...at the very least.

[norwaypinesavage]

"And how much energy does it release? Plenty. Hu’s team added carbon dioxide to less than a gram of Li3N at 330 degrees Celsius, and the surrounding temperature jumped almost immediately to about 1,000 degrees Celsius, or 1,832 degrees Fahrenheit."

The publication is called "Phys Org" I presume the "Phys" comes from physics. How can an organization with physics in its name not even know the difference between energy and temperature?

[Vanders9]

Not so fast! Surely this is only of use if we can get out hands on lots of Li3N? Is there is a cheap easily available natural source?

[alloysteel]

It turns out, that carbon dioxide is one of the most useful compounds on any habitable planet throughout the Universe.

And this little dollop is just more frosting on the cake.

[Fresh Wind]

A materials scientist at Michigan Technological University has discovered a chemical reaction that not only eats up the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide, it also creates something useful.

Who ever said CO2 isn't useful? It makes soda and beer tolerable, and plants love it.

[Born to Conserve]

When used as a fertilizer, the cyanamide releases .... CO2.

[ctdonath2]

Some just don’t have a sense of proportion. The implication is that somehow making computer chips out of CO2 will resolve, to any meaningful degree, the “global warming” problem - when the ratio of such useful use to problematic production is orders of magnitude of orders of magnitude. This isn’t “save the planet” material, it’s “Total Perspective Vortex” material.

[Jack of all Trades]

The Laws of Thermodynamics:

0) You must play the game
1) You can’t win
2) You can’t break even
3) You can’t quit the game

[MrB]

I reject the premise of the title that CO2 is “lemons”.

[Suz in AZ]

Very cool. But I still don’t get why people want to suffocate the plants.