We're all aware of the effects the excessive Co2 is having on the planet, and that everyone is starting to pull together and notice what is going on - including Richard Branson and Virgin.
However does anyone think that the above is possible? Is there a way of using Co2 to power vehicles and/or machinery, and if not... can we find a way?
I feel it would buy us time to repair the damage we have done in the last 100 years or so, and plant the trees needed to slowly heal the ozone layer.
2006-10-20 04:46:16 · 9 answers · asked by ? 2 in Environment
CO2 is a waste product of hydrocarbons during combustion. How then can we use CO2 and make it source of energy??
I dunno.
Thank God plants like the stuff, -and eat CO2 and can make O2 again!!
2006-10-20 04:53:26 · answer #1 · answered by MK6 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a program that is looking into pumping CO2 into abandoned oil wells, under pressure. The same program is looking at pumping it to the bottom of the oceans where the high pressure will hold it in perpetuity on the ocean floor. The latter may not be a good idea, since it will kill whatever life may be down there. I believe there are some suggestions to bury any organic waste to slow down the decay and releasing of more CO2 as is happening with the permafrost melting and releasing massive amounts of CO2 over the next 25 to 50 years when the peat moss and old plant life decays after the permafrost is gone.
I think there is some studies about using solar energy to produce energy from recycled CO2 emissions from burning fossel fuels. I will include a link to that for you. I think that technology may still be about 20 or more years away, though.
...jj
2006-10-20 05:26:14 · answer #2 · answered by johnny j 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well... The Ozone layer depletion and the Greenhouse effect are two separate problems for one thing. CO2 doesn't erode O3, which acts as a filter specifically for the UV waveband of the sun's rays, but rather acts as a one-way reflector for the electromagnetic radiation. Essentially, Ozone stops harmful rays getting in, while CO2 stops them getting out.
While it might not be possible to use the CO2 gathered in the atmosphere (save with the use of plants), we might be able to find some way to make use of the excess heat. There have been patents put forward for devices similar to a solar panel that instead run on IR radiation; however, so far no actual method of electricity generation based purely on heat energy has worked.
Perhaps the only way to get around the problem is to find ways to better use the heat we give off.
2006-10-20 05:01:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The thinning of the ozone layer enables extra UV rays from the sunlight get to the Earth. The ozone layer blocks many of the UV. UV rays could reason pores and skin maximum cancers to those individuals that artwork or play out section. The ozone 'holes' hover over the north and the south of Earth. If the ozone layer is thinned too plenty the UV rays could start to harm flowers. Please word that ozone depletion has no longer something to do with international Warming.
2016-12-08 18:00:43 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You cannot generate power from carbon dioxide.
Most of our fuels contain carbon and hydrogen. When you burn these using the oxygen in the air, thy become carbon dioxide and water. To turn these back into carbon and hydrogen, you need to put energy in. Trees and other plants do this using sunlight as their energy source.
We could rebalance the atmosphere in a fairly short space of time if we planted enough trees. That would require considerable international cooperation and money. Unfortunately there are more votes in waging war so we can get more oil than there are in saving the planet.
2006-10-20 05:00:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not really, since CO2 is already used O2 (oxygen) and needs to be reinfused with the energy it gave out as Oxygen, befoe it can be used again... otherwise, you could get an unlimited amount of energy from a small chunk of charcoal, or a piece of dust, or something
2006-10-20 04:56:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is some research going on on the use of CO2 from power stations exhaust gases to grow algae (with sunlight) to produce biofuels.
2006-10-20 06:55:33 · answer #7 · answered by Robert A 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nice ideea. The plants are using CO2 (photosynthesis). May be in future we'll can do also.
2006-10-20 04:57:48 · answer #8 · answered by Robert W 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
C02 is the product of combustion.
Its a stable 8 molecule so i dont see how...
Chemists????
H20 (water) on the other hand,
ELECTROLOSIS makes Hydrogen / oxygen then ignite them makes.,,,, WATER... But we lose to much in friction of parts etc etc (wheels on ground etc!)
Nice idea though
2006-10-20 04:56:27 · answer #9 · answered by Banderes 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋