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Green House Gas Problem

Green House Gas Problem

Green House Gas Problem

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Okay, I have an engineering problem that needs solved.

We are giving off lots of CO2 emmisions.

I need to find a cost effective way to seperate the O2 to be bottled for pharmacutical uses.

I also need to find a way to take the C left, and form it into diamonds for sale.

Any suggestions on taking care of the green house gas problem?

RE: Green House Gas Problem

Why not bubble it through water and sell acid?

RE: Green House Gas Problem

There's are these bio-machines called "vegetation" and "algae" that convert CO2 into O2 and accumlates the C in biotissue which can then be harvested.  I don't know about the diamond part.  Taking care of the green house gas problem could be faciliated by using these bio-machines throughout our engineered environments instead of replacing this infrastructure with less/non- effective systems such as paved surfaces.

Look out a window over any City in the US and you will see what I mean, there is vast wasted space on rooftops that can be vegetated, for instance.  This is happening in Berlin and Sweden, and now Chicago, where developers are required to provide a minimum amount of vegetation on their site.  It's a start!

RE: Green House Gas Problem

Why not bubble it through water and sell acid?

This doesn't sequester the CO2 - it will come back out of solution. BLT has the more elegant solution.

Rather than compress all the way to diamond, you could compress it into a form similar to anthracite and sell it to blacksmiths. Then again, they will turn it back into CO2...

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