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Scientists to Vie for $25M Climate Prize
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| 2/9/07
| TARIQ PANJA
Posted on 02/09/2007 12:56:29 PM PST by kiriath_jearim
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To: kiriath_jearim
Anyone see the comedy here from a guy whose jet fleet pumps millions of pounds of crud into the atmosphere?
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posted on
02/09/2007 12:59:05 PM PST
by
pabianice
To: kiriath_jearim
Cool! Er...Hot! Whatever.
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posted on
02/09/2007 12:59:36 PM PST
by
hardworking
(Vote for Hillary and show your support for pathological liars.)
To: kiriath_jearim
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.
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posted on
02/09/2007 1:00:42 PM PST
by
3niner
(War is one game where the home team always loses.)
To: kiriath_jearim
$25 million prize It was going to be $24,999,999.00 so generous Al chipped in to bring it up to $25 million.
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posted on
02/09/2007 1:01:44 PM PST
by
capt. norm
(Liberalism = cowardice disguised as tolerance.)
To: kiriath_jearim
I nominate Johnny Appleseed!
To: kiriath_jearim
I'll invent plants that use carbon dioxide!!! I WIN!
To: kiriath_jearim
Can someone point me to the actual challenge, i.e. the specifics of it?
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posted on
02/09/2007 1:03:55 PM PST
by
Restore
To: kiriath_jearim
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: ![](http://www.rixane.com/shots/fantastic-ocean-3d-screensaver-640-5.jpg)
![](http://www.redwood-forest.com/images/indx4.jpg)
Me thinks Sir Branson is too cheap to pay me however.
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posted on
02/09/2007 1:03:55 PM PST
by
TheDon
(Are you a cut and run conservative?)
To: kiriath_jearim
here are a couple:
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posted on
02/09/2007 1:03:55 PM PST
by
smonk
To: kiriath_jearim
Sir Richard Branson and algore are bribing global warming scientists???
To: pabianice
Hey Richard, Plant a shiite load of trees. Where do I collect?
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posted on
02/09/2007 1:08:37 PM PST
by
jslade
(The beatings well cease when morale improves!)
To: kiriath_jearim
Can someone point me to the actual challenge, i.e. the specifics of it? Oops, found it.
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posted on
02/09/2007 1:09:49 PM PST
by
Restore
To: kiriath_jearim
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!?!?!?!
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posted on
02/09/2007 1:12:03 PM PST
by
Centurion2000
(If you're not being shot at, it's not a high stress job.)
To: kiriath_jearim
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
To: kiriath_jearim
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.
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posted on
02/09/2007 1:21:37 PM PST
by
Sherman Logan
(Recognition of one's ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.)
To: kiriath_jearim
The vast majority of "green house" gases is water vapor. And extracting it is trivial.
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posted on
02/09/2007 1:30:34 PM PST
by
AndyTheBear
(Disastrous social experimentation is the opiate of elitist snobs.)
To: kiriath_jearim
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.
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posted on
02/09/2007 1:32:36 PM PST
by
Fluke Codewriter
(Democracy is a mob-rules mentality, it's like 100 wolves and 1 sheep fighting over what's for dinner)
To: kiriath_jearim
"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).
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posted on
02/09/2007 1:34:24 PM PST
by
AndyTheBear
(Disastrous social experimentation is the opiate of elitist snobs.)
To: kiriath_jearim; Killing Time; Beowulf; Mr. Peabody; Mrs. Don-o; RW_Whacko; honolulugal; ...
~Branson is a (very rich) Joke.~
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posted on
02/09/2007 1:35:11 PM PST
by
xcamel
(Press to Test, Release to Detonate)
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