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Environment & Energy

Boomer

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2. It's not a solution yet

Reply to IndyOp (Reply #1)

Sun Oct 27, 2019, 03:04 PM

Oct 2019

If you read the article, you'll see that this invention only addresses the extraction of CO2 from the air, but not what to do with it once it's been pulled out of the air. Notice the "indirectly contribute to greenhouse gas reduction."

>>The CO2 collected during the process could also be useful, and indirectly, contribute to greenhouse gas reduction... pure carbon dioxide can be compressed and disposed of underground. Or, they suggest, it can be turned into fuel.<<

We need the "And then..." filled in concretely before popping any champagne corks.

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A new way to remove greenhouse gases from the atmosphere [View all] hermetic Oct 2019 OP

How quickly can we scale up for how much $. How much can it absorb? IndyOp Oct 2019 #1

It's not a solution yet Boomer Oct 2019 #2

Yep. (nt) IndyOp Oct 2019 #3

I was wondering about that. Mickju Oct 2019 #6

We'll need BILLIONS of these huge filters. Duppers Oct 2019 #4

This is NOT ready-for-prime-time technology yet Boomer Oct 2019 #5

Like all other CO2 extraction technologies, this one is defeated by the scale of the problem The_jackalope Oct 2019 #7

There's a grim outcome baked into that scenario Boomer Oct 2019 #8