Who would care if a few of these details(like removing CO2 from the atmosphere) could be fixed?

Question

While everyong is promoting exhausting less Co2-No one is developing a method for removing CO2 from the atmosphere. This is not too hard to do but very little effort is directed toward removal of the excess gas.

Answer 1

'Cause its actually way easier to attack the problem by adding less CO2 into the environment... and let nature tackle what's already there.

If you think about it, most of the technology used to prevent more CO2 being added is nothing more than pre-release "removal" technology. It's just tackling it while it's still in a concentrated form.

There are two fundamental problems with scrubbing CO2 from the environment at large. First is the sheer scale. There's a reason why forests (to date the most effective CO2 removal system...) are so freakin' huge. Size does matter, as any system has to have exposure to huge quantities of air to be able to have any measurable impact. This means that whatever you use is going to have to be deployed in really large quantities, and this creates other major environmental impact issues. Think wind farms and the problems we already see with those even on a limited scale...

Second, you gott a do something with the CO2 once it's been scrubbed. So you capture it. Now you have to concentrate it, use energy to maintain it in a stable form, transport, dispose of it and find somewhere and someway to keep it from re-entering the atmosphere.... all this in a way that uses less CO2 contributing energy than the CO2 you're scrubbing from the atmosphere.

The bottom line is the best place to artifically scrub CO2 is at the source. Once it hits the environment, nature's got us beat twenty ways to Sunday. So the focus has to be on protecting these natural resources so they can do their job!

Answer 2

Well Jim, I think that the whole world would care. As a cyclist who breathes in a lot of air, I know I would care, because I cant inhale near as much as an 8 cylinder euingine can, so I end up inhailing their exaust. I would care Jim.
Plants are the only way I know to freshen air.
Not Factory (plants), but Flowers and trees(plants).

I dont see merging the two contexts of the word plant into a working facility, as a possibility.
Maybe God knows how. I'll pray about it. Work on that Jim it's a cool idea, that's never crossed my mind.
I've been more into the thought train, of not cutting trees but you just changed my track.

Rite ON

Answer 3

promoting less co2 is good but removing all co2 is vrey bad!!!

i care about all this global warming..but you should know that co2 is important because it makes the world warmer...that makes it habitable for people to live...and if there is no co2 it would 60degrees F in earth...so we cant take co2 or any of those greenhouse gases...but we can make it less!!!

and mars has nothing to do with the earth!!mars is a hot place and we dont want to be like mars.where when you go outside you could burn into ashes in 1second!!!


HoPE I HELPED!!! :))

Answer 4

This is something that has already been thought of and discarded. In order to have an effective "carbon remover" it would have to be big. The size of a large city, big. And you'd need a bunch of them.

Its not cost effective, its untested technology, and we're not even sure if it would work. It cheaper and easier to just reduce our carbon footprint and try to stabilize the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.

Answer 5

OK the first thing you need to know is that there is no away...when something is emitted into the air or earth...it will always be there....trees and some plants store CO2, however, if they decay or are burned they will release them into the air once again...this is why we need to produce less emissions into the environment.

Answer 6

...plants do a great job with CO2.

It's too bad we're cutting down the forests all over the place.

Answer 7

This organization is working on that very idea.