Scientists find way to make mineral which can remove CO2 from atmosphere.
Alternate headline –
A$$hole scientists send ecosystem into irreversible tailspin. We’re all going to die.
Scientists have found a rapid way of producing magnesite, a mineral which stores carbon dioxide. If this can be developed to an industrial scale, it opens the door to removing CO2 from the atmosphere for long-term storage, thus countering the global warming effect of atmospheric CO2.
“For now, we recognise that this is an experimental process, and will need to be scaled up before we can be sure that magnesite can be used in carbon sequestration (taking CO2 from the atmosphere and permanently storing it as magnesite). This depends on several variables, including the price of carbon and the refinement of the sequestration technology, but we now know that the science makes it do-able”.
Commenting, Professor Peter Kelemen at Columbia University’s Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (New York) said “It is really exciting that this group has worked out the mechanism of natural magnesite crystallization at low temperatures, as has been previously observed—but not explained—in weathering of ultramafic rocks. The potential for accelerating the process is also important, potentially offering a benign and relatively inexpensive route to carbon storage, and perhaps even direct CO2 removal from air.”
The problem is the CO2 is *not* a problem. …..Lady in Red
CO2 – you mean plantfood? That stuff that was 5x as much of when dinosaurs roamed the Earth and both they and the flora they were eating grew to be many stories tall? That’s the stuff they want to get rid of?
And all so they won’t lose their waterfront houses. 😐
That’s great. Now they need to find a way to efficiently put salt back into seawater. The desalination industry is raping the ocean and destroying the delicate freshwater/seawater balance.
thus countering the global warming effect of atmospheric CO2.
Fake news.
False Correlation.
Headline: Shark attacks increase with more ice cream sales.
False conclusion: ice cream sales create shark attacks.
Buried in the details: Sharks attack more frequently in warmer weather and people eat more ice cream when it’s warmer.
*BOING* Cuckoo, *BOING* Cuckoo, *BOING* Cuckoo . . .
Starve the vegans Starve the food animals, with resulting food shortage the earth is obviously over populated, ask any starving humanoid. Hell that was the big thing with the whackos 50 years ago, probably a lot longer then that.
Did anyone hear the loud thump when my jaw hit the ground?
This is a new low in “stupid.”
In fact, it redefines “stupid.”
Just sayin’.
MgCO3
It’ll also take (more) Oxygen from the air.
Carbon Dioxide is 2 Oxygens and 1 Carbon and Magnesite is 3 Oxygens and 1 Carbon (united with a Magnesium).
Most people act as though they’re Oxygen-deprived, already, so they prolly don’t need any further deprivation.
Thanks, fellahs … but … no thanks …
This is the result of paying “scientists” to practice Lysenko-ist “science” instead of actual science. Bet they’re all paid by fleecing the taxpayers; not a genuine researcher in the gaggle.
izlamo delenda est …
i read about something called ice nine, in the oldendays…sounds familiar……
This could be useful in maybe a couple thousand if CO2 levels should ever rise to the level where they’re actually dangerous for humans (around 3-5%, right now it’s 0.04% or 75 times less than dangerous levels). At this point it’s just a scam to make money off western-leftist governments and suckers.
Now they need to put their little heads together and come up with a way to prevent the sun’s energy from fluctuating.
The scientists should instead be working on magnasite nitron tablets:
http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Magnasite-nitron_tablet
I guess Iwe still have a couple of centuries before those are available.
So we’re having massive forest fires because of poor forest management brought on by uneducated liberal tree huggers. Now they want to take away the trees food?