"KLC Lewis" wrote in
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The current method of sequestering co2 is to pump it into underground
chambers left empty from oil deposits. A more long-term solution would
be to create calcium carbonate by pumping it through lime slurry, or
use it to grow simple plants (algaes) and create more oxygen, trapping
the carbon in the plants' cellulose. The algaes can then feed people
and animals, and be used as fertilizer for other food crops.
I've always found it terribly amusing that whenever the subject of air
pollution comes up, a huge majority of the population has this vision of
Earth suspended inside a sealed-up beach ball with a finite, unchanging
volume of "air" that must be conserved, at all costs, and totally
recycled for millions of years or we're all going to die.....a sort of
vacuum chambered Earth.
Nothing could be farther from the truth. Billions of tons of gas pour
off the nearest star and a tiny bit of it blasts the magnetosphere with
amazing array of highly charged ions, various gasses across the
spectrum, and free atomic elements like electrons, neutrons, etc.....24
hours a day for millions of years.
It gives you a little different picture, once you notice the TRAIL of
GASES streaming off the dark side of the planet into space. Look at the
dateline on this new article:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/n...-sun-stealing-
atmosphere.html
So, it appears we are NOT living in a sealed glass jar with the sun
shining in. It appears we are part of the vacuum-cleaner!
So, once we are outside the "Glass Envelope" thinking, wouldn't it stand
to REASON, something some find hard to do, that if we inject CO2 or any
gas into this DYNAMIC air that has new stuff blowing into it on one side
and stuff blowing OFF it on the other....Wouldn't THAT be the reason why
we're not choking to death on a billion or so years of various species
burning WOOD to keep warm spewing out tons of toxic CO2 for the plants
to turn into FOOD?!
There is some good news, if you plan on staying around:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/20...-billion-year-
life-extension/
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Larry
Why aren't lakes that have had a hundred years of 2-stroke outboards
spewing out millions of gallons of unburned fuel and Quaker State SAE 30
motor oil mixed 15:1....14" deep in them? Oil floats, right??