• New Material Can Scrub Carbon Dioxide Right Out of the Air at Unprecedented Rates
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[QUOTE]If cleaning carbon dioxide from the atmosphere was easy, we’d already be doing it. But carbon capture has proven to be a tough technology to feasibly roll out on a grand scale, and that means all the things we do that produce carbon dioxide emissions--which seems to be just about everything these days--are still roughly as bad for the planet as they were several years ago. That’s a problem in a warming world, and one that a team of researchers may have just found a solution for via an inexpensive polymeric material. Reporting their findings in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, the team (which includes a Nobel laureate in chemistry) descirbes a new solid material based on polyethylenimine that can be used to capture carbon dioxide at the source--be that an industrial smokestack or a car’s exhaust pipe--under real-world conditions where the air contains moisture.That last part is important. Previous methods of scrubbing CO2 from the air have enjoyed varying degrees of success (usually under controlled conditions), but none has been particularly effective in the presence of humidity. The new material, which is inexpensive and readily available, has shown some of the highest carbon dioxide removal rates of any material ever tested in the presence of humidity. It’s also reusable. After capturing carbon, the material also gives it up easily so it can be sequestered or recycled through the manufacture of other substances. The polyethylenimine material can then also be reused over and over again to capture more carbon dioxide. Used to line smokestacks or even out in the open atmosphere, the material could blunt the impact of all of those things we humans do that are contributing to the carbon glut in the atmosphere.[/QUOTE] Source: [url]http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-01/new-material-can-pull-carbon-dioxide-right-out-air-unprecedented-rates[/url] Whelp, so much for preventing the next ice age :v:
I wouldn't mind another ice age. Sure is better than burning to death
Very very interesting. I'm wondering exactly what kind of substances we can derive from it if we recycle the materials.
[QUOTE=Laferio;34140057]I wouldn't mind another ice age. Sure is better than burning to death[/QUOTE] I disagree. I'd much rather burn to death than freeze to death. Though, my father has said that even hell won't be hot enough for me...
[img]http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/medialibrary/images/main-promo/s4_04_ps_26.jpg[/img] My God, Helen Raynor can predict the future!
[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;34140102]I disagree. I'd much rather burn to death than freeze to death. Though, my father has said that even hell won't be hot enough for me...[/QUOTE] You can always put more on, but only so much off. These are the words of Minnesota. [editline]9th January 2012[/editline] Photos please of the material
heating is far easier than refrigeration [editline]10th January 2012[/editline] anyway we're actually in the middle of an ice age now
[QUOTE=areolop;34140157]You can always put more on, but only so much off. These are the words of Minnesota. l[/QUOTE] Plants can't though [editline]10th January 2012[/editline] [QUOTE=Contag;34140181]heating is far easier than refrigeration [editline]10th January 2012[/editline] anyway we're actually in the middle of an ice age now[/QUOTE] We are at the tail end of a cool cycle, the earth is going to become subtropical for the next few hundreds of years or so
[QUOTE=JohnFisher89;34140328]Plants can't though[/QUOTE] Greenhouse. Bring it winter!
[QUOTE=muffinmastah;34140344]Greenhouse. Bring it winter![/QUOTE] Which would skyrocket food prices and reduce the supply
Awesome, now for this to be rolled out on a grand scale and then we should have better ways of sequestering carbon dioxide more efficiently on a cheaper scale, knowing how companies like to lower the bottom line this could really be put into use fast.
current ice age [quote]The entire Quaternary Period (2.58 Ma) is referred to as an ice age because at least one permanent large ice sheet — Antarctica — has existed continuously.[/quote]
[QUOTE=JohnFisher89;34140365]Which would skyrocket food prices and reduce the supply[/QUOTE] Grow your own food, duh.
[QUOTE=Laferio;34140057]I wouldn't mind another ice age. Sure is better than burning to death[/QUOTE] You don't know that though... Personally I would like a quick fiery death rather than a slow cold one
But what do we do with all that captured carbon dioxide? It has to go somewhere.
[QUOTE=Spartan8907;34140519]But what do we do with all that captured carbon dioxide? It has to go somewhere.[/QUOTE] Carbon Dioxide pools, of course.
[QUOTE=Spartan8907;34140519]But what do we do with all that captured carbon dioxide? It has to go somewhere.[/QUOTE] Make lots of soda, of course.
Winter is coming?
[QUOTE=gonedead0;34140484]Grow your own food, duh.[/QUOTE] How could I be so blind, it isn't like people may not have space, or have the time to wait and let the food grow
[QUOTE=gonedead0;34140484]Grow your own food, duh.[/QUOTE] You have no idea how much land it takes to sustain just one person, let alone a family of 3-4+
[QUOTE=JohnFisher89;34140328]Plants can't though [editline]10th January 2012[/editline] We are at the tail end of a cool cycle, the earth is going to become subtropical for the next few hundreds of years or so[/QUOTE] That seems to already have started here in Georgia. Its fucking January and what is the temp outside? 70F.
It was winter in florida for a total of maybe...3 days.
[QUOTE=Mooe94;34140491]You don't know that though... Personally I would like a quick fiery death rather than a slow cold one[/QUOTE] Eeeeh, I don't know about that, being slowly cooked alive sounds pretty bad. On the other hand, being cold=feeling nothing.
[QUOTE=Mooe94;34140491]You don't know that though... Personally I would like a quick fiery death rather than a slow cold one[/QUOTE] I don't think it would be a quick burning death. It would be more like being in a 100C sauna until you die. And I would imagine that being rather unpleasant.
Cold death is a better death, you eventually stop feeling the cold and start taking off all your clothes because you think it's warm!
I'll take the ice age death, please. At least I can fight back more easily. Also, dying by freezing is said to be euphoric because of the loss of feeling and your brain going all woobly.
[QUOTE=Downsider;34141815]I'll take the ice age death, please. At least I can fight back more easily. Also, dying by freezing is said to be euphoric because of the loss of feeling and your brain going all woobly.[/QUOTE] This. Freezing to death seems more pleasant than burning to death.
[QUOTE=DeEz;34141837]This. Freezing to death seems more pleasant than burning to death.[/QUOTE] I dunno about that, heat makes me sleepy. I can just nap my way through the apocalypse.
[QUOTE=Mr. Someguy;34141862]I dunno about that, heat makes me sleepy. I can just nap my way through the apocalypse.[/QUOTE] Mad props to you if being burned alive makes you sleepy
Yes, lets suck out all of the Co2 from our environment so plants can't grow as readily or rapidly, GENIUS guys! Maybe in the city, MAYBE, but anywhere else and your fucking with nature.
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