looks like global warming might be solvable after all

Waves · 07-25-2010, 07:03 PM

The significance of the study is twofold,” Stuart Licht, a chemistry professor at George Washington University, told PhysOrg.com. “Carbon dioxide, a non-reactive and normally difficult-to-remove compound, can be easily captured with solar energy using our new low-energy, lithium carbonate electrolysis STEP process, and with scale-up, sufficient resources exist for STEP to decrease carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere to pre-industrial levels within 10 years.”

More sciency shit: Solar-powered process could decrease carbon dioxide to pre-industrial levels in 10 years

Another score for science. Even though it could be argued that science is what created global warming in the first place.

Štulic · 07-25-2010, 07:08 PM

Same source, only three years ago:

Team to chemically transform carbon dioxide into carbon-neutral liquid fuels

Kompressor · 07-25-2010, 07:09 PM

Aw man I'm gonna pollute to all hell now that i can!

Štulic · 07-25-2010, 07:17 PM

Quote:

The prototype device, called the Counter Rotating Ring Receiver Reactor Recuperator (CR5, for short), will break a carbon-oxygen bond in the carbon dioxide to form carbon monoxide and oxygen in two distinct steps. It is a major piece of an approach to converting carbon dioxide into fuel from sunlight.

I reckon a vast majority of scientists just use the huge amounts of taxpayers funding for pretending to be working for years and years on a sophisticated device for which they knew from the very first day it wouldn't work anyway. They probably spent three months sitting around in a board room trying to come up with the name for it before starting any work on a project, like making drawings and computer models and shit...

Waves · 07-25-2010, 07:34 PM

hey man thats what they said about kevin costner and his oil cleaning device

now look, shit just got deployed to the gulf.

Štulic · 07-25-2010, 07:51 PM

I sincerely hope they succeed

The Rev · 07-25-2010, 09:36 PM

Where there is someone who wants something, there is someone willing to pay. And where there is someone willing to pay, there is someone hard at work trying to invent the thing said someone wants to pay for.

Liquidity is the Mother of Invention, after all.

The Rev

The_Jester · 07-25-2010, 10:51 PM

Cleaner air? Good news doodz!

cantSEEme · 07-26-2010, 05:21 AM

osnap

Sir-Ex · 07-26-2010, 09:44 AM

The endless pesimism of sir-ex does not belong in this thread.

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Waves Duderino Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: chiburbs Posts: 15,405 Thanks: 991 Thanked 4,036 Times in 2,224 Posts	looks like global warming might be solvable after all The significance of the study is twofold,” Stuart Licht, a chemistry professor at George Washington University, told PhysOrg.com. “Carbon dioxide, a non-reactive and normally difficult-to-remove compound, can be easily captured with solar energy using our new low-energy, lithium carbonate electrolysis STEP process, and with scale-up, sufficient resources exist for STEP to decrease carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere to pre-industrial levels within 10 years.” More sciency shit: Solar-powered process could decrease carbon dioxide to pre-industrial levels in 10 years Another score for science. Even though it could be argued that science is what created global warming in the first place. __________________ On this life that we call home The years go fast and the days go so slow

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