Re: CO2: Los Alamos perfects extraction process...

From: Andrew Clough (aclough@mit.edu)
Date: Thu Apr 11 2002 - 21:31:25 MDT


At 06:53 PM 4/11/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>http://www.lanl.gov/worldview/news/releases/archive/02-028.shtml
>
>LOS ALAMOS, N.M., April 9, 2002 -- Researchers at the U.S. Department of
>Energy's Los Alamos National Laboratory are studying a simple, cost
>effective method for extracting carbon dioxide directly from the air
>which
>could allow sustained use of fossil fuels while avoiding potential
>global
>climate change.

This would probably be useful if we had a very powerful, cheap,
non-portable method of generating energy, like Tokamak fusion, and still
don't have good enough batteries for electrical cars and such. Removing
CO2 from the atmosphere could be worthwhile, but I don't see it being made
into fossil fuel in any other scenario.



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