will this help global warming......?

Question

i dunno whther this will be able to help out global warming and it is kind of scientific fantasy so....
what if somehow you could get all the carbon dioxide in one place (letting lime, calcium oxide. to abosrb it) then to get rid of it, put an animatter container in the middle of the limestone (once the carbon dioxide reacts with the lime it forms calcium carbonate) an letting it annihalate. this could rid of enormous amounts and releases no form of radiation but you would first have to find lime and it might be expensive to make so much antimatter.
what are your views people? could it work?

im not saying get rid of all the carbon dioxide, just some of it

Answer 1

There is a much simpler and safer way to remove carbon from the atmosphere. That is to sequester it in plant material.

Plants extract carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

One of the products that plants produce from that carbon dioxide is cellulose.

Most of us recognize cellulose as wood.

Cellulose is also used to make paper.

If you put that cellulose, essentially used paper, newsprint, and plant trimmings in a dry landfill where they will not break down or decompose, that carbon dioxide is effectively sequestered from the environment.

If instead you tried to destroy that carbon dioxide through the use of antimatter you would essentially create a nuclear explosion far more powerful than any nuclear weapon that has ever been exploded.

Personally I do not think that destroying carbon dioxide with antimatter is a very good idea.

I think that sequestering carbon in a landfill is much safer.

Answer 2

One problem - where would you get the antimatter from. It doesn't occur naturally on Earth other than for the briefest of moments during radioactive decay or from incoming cosmic rays. At the instant that antimatter comes into contact with suitable matter it is annihilated.

There are schemes along similar lines to the one you suggested, one of which involves using sodium hydroxide to sequester carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Fortunately the resulting byproduct doesn't need anything quite so advanced as antimatter to dispose of it as it can be used in the oil industry.

Answer 3

This is what happens naturally. Small ocean organisms, corals etc. produce "shells" which sink to the bottom to build up layers of chalk & limestone.

The "anit-matter" or anialation part is done naturally by plate techtonics subsuming the chalk & lime deposits on the sea floor.

One of the unknows that could cause a run-away climate change is that as atmospheric Co2 increases oceans become more acidic. this stops the organisms forming shells. also warm waters have less life generally.

Answer 4

Of course it could work. When I tried it though I found that to produce the lime I had to heat calcium carbonate (limestone)which released the same amount of CO2 that I later absorbed.
In addition the energy needed to heat the limestone required the burning of coal. The anti matter was worse; it really needed enormous amounts of energy to run the particle accelerator. The net effect of my small scale experiment was to produce a huge amount of CO2. Probably as well, making much more anti matter could have exploded the planet.
You need to understand that we must stop the use of fossil fuels without replacing them with nuclear fuel. Finding a way of removing the CO2 doesn't do that. We need AGW or we cannot ban the use of fuel. Why we need to do that? You do not have sufficient clearance to ask. (I checked)

Answer 5

Somethings in life need carbon dioxide. We need a little bit of it to. And besides it would find a way out, somehow.

Answer 6

Reducing carbon dioxide emissions would definatly help, but ridding of it completely would make the oxygen mixture in the air to high, with the slightest spark casuing a massive explosion. This occurd on one of the Apollo missions before takeoff.

Answer 7

Greenhouse gasses only make up 1% of the atmosphere and of those 99% is water vapour.

CO2 is a naturally occuring gas and humans are not the cause of the increase. Animals and vegitation create many times more amounts per year than we do.

It's all just propoganda folks. Don't believe the hype.

Answer 8

Plants need carbon dioxide without it they die which causes two problems - one is reduced oxygen and 2 is the release of nitrogen dioxide which is a pollutant.

Answer 9

the annihilation of the carbon with the antimatter would cause an explosion powerful enough to split the Earth nto another asteroid belt.

Answer 10

that is so not gonna happen,
far too way out.
the earth will heal it's self, just as soon as it finishes drowning the human race .
no more humans,no more problems.