Richard Branson must offer the 25 million to all who can design a machine to collect carbon emissions?

Question

Scientist have not got all the answers as some of the cluest machines came from the australian back shed and the back yard aussie inventor is one to tangle with like a king brown snake .To all you people ,it is a world effort to combat carbon emissions.It is wasting money and a carbon resouce that flows out of a vehices muffler as my idea for a carbon filtration unit is that this carbon filtration unit collects the carbon in a way that the carbon can be made into carbon products that can benefit the community and the amounts of carbon collected could build houses ,cars ,motorcycles as the list is endless .?Just imagine machines that look like big jet engines that sit high above city collecting carbon emissions and processing the carbon emissions into carbon product.What a free resource of material?back shed cant be beaten

Answer 1

Richard Branson must be the dumbest person on the planet because he's offering 25 million for someone to invent the catalytic converter.

Answer 2

This is more difficult than it sounds as CO2 is gasious and will not simply be caught in a filter. The catalytic converter idea is also a no go as it requires heat to work, which would creare more CO2 (from the burning of carbon base fuels to produce energy) than it removes. The eventual winner will probably be the first person to come up with an efficient cold air passive catalytic converter, which is not exactly an easy thing to knock up in your shed.

Answer 3

This guy has invented the concept of long tubes filled with special algae which could help remove 7.5 billion tons of CO2 per year
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1971850,00.html

Answer 4

and the process already exist, but expensive