Heal global warming and produce energy at the same time?

Question

Heal global warming and produce energy at the same time?

I am not a chemist or anything but I had in idea when I woke up this morning. The two elements in primary question are ozone (O3) and carbon dioxide (co2). The problem is that we have too much co2 not enough ozone, partly because of various chemical pollutants that destroy the volatile ozone molecule. So here is my idea.

Take the 2 elements, we have 1 carbon and 2 oxygen make up Co2, then in water we have 2 hydrogen and 1 oxygen. What we could do is device someway to harvest CO2 emissions, and combine them with water (h2o) on a molecular basis. Break down the 2 molecules, leaving 3 oxygen atoms, 2 hydrogen atoms and 1 carbon.

Take the 3 oxygen out and use electrolysis to turn them into ozone (O3) and take the byproduct of 1 carbon and 2 hydrogen and make the base compound for cyclopropane, which is an anesthetic not comely used. However, it is a type of fuel that could be used, stored, or just plane expelled into space. The third byproduct of the process is raw energy.

Another part of the issue I was thinking about this morning was the relative oxygen in relation to carbon emissions. I am wondering if we are actually decreasing the oxygen available. For instance molecules of chlorine literally destroy oxygen, and they are in every household city water system.

We have deforestation, but the biggest impact on our oxygen output is the algae, which are starting to become diseased as we can see from black and red algae blooms. The algae makes 70% of our oxygen, if we cut the oxygen production levels of our planet the relative difference would appear that we are having an increase of GHG’s, maybe what we have is a decrease in oxygen.

AS far as disperssing the ozone, as it is toxic at our level, we could send it up in hemp balloons mixed with helium (or other light appropriate gas) and set them to release at the right altitude. Think about taking the residual smoke from a fossil fuel burning plant, mixing it with a little water, creating ozone to patch and cool the atmosphere while creating cyclopropane which is a clean burning fuel source that could be used for heating. On cars that have emmisions a device could be mounted to the muffler outlet and a storage tank could be installed for ozone and the cyclopropane could be routed somehow to the fuel system. The ozone could be dumped off at gas stations, that could be sent to central releasing stations in the antarctic. The transport alone would create millions of jobs worldwide, and it would be something we could all contribute to with assurance that the right thing is being done.

There was a comment from one of the questioners about patent and money. What I am trying to do here is give someone with the capabilities and means the idea so that they can do something good. Money is a byproduct to me.

Answer 1

If you can figure out how to do this on a large scale, the CEO of Virgin Atlantic has offered a $25,000,000 reward. Good Luck!

Answer 2

Other than a couple of problems with the chemistry and the laws of thermodynamics you may be onto something here. Of course, it will take a lot of energy to run your plant and making energy produces carbon dioxide - unless you like nukes (oh, oh here come the thumbs down flames).

I have a suggestion for you. If you ever want to get rich off an idea like this (by patenting it, for example) don't publish it on Yahoo Answers. Once you do this you won't be able to patent it.

PS. Ozone has nothing whatsoever to do with global warming despite what so many who lurk around YA think.

Answer 3

"The problem is that we have too much co2 not enough ozone" you base your agrument off of this, and it's incorrect, so it messes up the rest of your idea.

Ozone, O3, is toxic to humans. Despite being oxygen, it will poison you if you breate it in the same manner CO2 would. Ozone is only useful in the ozone layer of our atmosphere; when ozone is in troposphere (where we are) it is a greenhouse gas and pollutant. It's nasty stuff, not exactly something you want around.

Answer 4

Here is my two bits. Ozone is actually a pollutant that many cities try to get rid of. The actual problem is that we have too much of it on the surface and too little up high.

Answer 5

Doing the chemical rearrangements you suggest would actually require major amounts of energy. CO2 and H2O are very stable chemicals. Breaking them apart is hard.