There is a safe proven way to remove CO2 from air at a very low cost so why not do it?

Question

By helping the biosphere rather than hurting it a lot more biomass can be grown at a very low cost. The biomass can be harvested and made into oil also at a very low cost. The oil can be used for fuel and the excess can be pumped into the ground as a storage system for carbon.

Answer 1

That sounds no different than what is done today. The crude oil used to make gasoline was formed from remains of living things that died many moons ago.(ie. plants, dinosaurs, fish ect.) I can see where you're going with planting things to remove excess CO2, but harvesting it and using that as a fuel would not change our lifestyle.

Answer 2

We know that land based growth of biomass just to produce the energy currently being used would be inadequate, even if we used all food producing acreage.
But we could be growing much greater amounts of biomass and harvesting it from the oceans to replace coal or bio-oil.

This concept does not require sequestration to work as it is not using fossil fuel... all the carbon in this fuel has come out of the atmosphere. The obvious first place to start that would be in the dead zones... areas with so much aquatic vegetation that its decomposition caused the death of all animal life.

To make harvesting feasible we might find it necessary to concentrate on areas that vegetatation collects in via wind action.

We would like to make this an economically feasible process.

By the way, plant life is not able to take CO2 levels so low as to harm either plants or animal life. With optimal supplies of plant nutrients they might lower it to a healthy level.

With a proposed genetic modification plants might be able to lower concentrations much lower, and threaten other plants with lack of CO2. That has not been done, may be impossible, but if possible it should not be done.

Answer 3

What for? First of all, growing more biomass translates to planting trees--and then leaving them there. The notion that we can pump endless amounts of CO2 into the ground and expect it to stay there is NOT going to work. Even if the technology can be developed to make this tecchnicallly possible, the cost would be high.

Nor do we need to. Reofrestation, yes. But for producing energy, we need to start using the cost-effective (andfar cheaper) technologies currently available, such as nuclear, solar ,a nd wind. We do not need bio-originated fuels--whetether fossil fuels or "biofuels."

Answer 4

It's called plant trees and grass
the only other way is to remove all living anamals
Quit drinking sodas and beer as the fizz is CO2

Answer 5

if CO2 is removed from air...we would die...so would the plants

Answer 6

You do not under stand its all about taking your money and controlling you .

Answer 7

And exactly what is this safe proven way?