Ironic method to combat global warming

BlueFox
BlueFox Posts: 15,251
edited January 2013 in The Clubhouse
Take the CO2 and turn it into gasoline.

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/energy/stories/scientists-successfully-generate-gasoline-out-of-thin-air?hpt=hp_bn16
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,396
    edited January 2013
    Taping Al Gore's mouth shut and keeping him away from his private jet would be cheaper and far more effective. Maybe we could get him to shut a light or two off once in a while as well...
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  • mhardy6647
    mhardy6647 Posts: 33,772
    edited January 2013
    CO2 is as oxidized as carbon can get. Our buddies, the green plants, can reduce it to sugars using light as an energy source (photosynthesis) - reducing even further to alkanes and other high-energy "fossil" (hydrocarbon) fuels will take a lot of input energy.

    Unfortunately the Second Law of Thermodynamics is workin' against us. It's not even a zero sum game. As is often said of thermodynamics:

    The First Law says you can't win
    The Second Law says you can't even break even
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  • DMara
    DMara Posts: 1,434
    edited January 2013
    The laws of physics won't stop his quest to become a billionaire :razz:
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited January 2013
    mhardy6647 wrote: »
    CO2 is as oxidized as carbon can get. Our buddies, the green plants, can reduce it to sugars using light as an energy source (photosynthesis) - reducing even further to alkanes and other high-energy "fossil" (hydrocarbon) fuels will take a lot of input energy.

    Unfortunately the Second Law of Thermodynamics is workin' against us. It's not even a zero sum game. As is often said of thermodynamics:

    The First Law says you can't win
    The Second Law says you can't even break even

    This sounds right. I don't see how this process can possibly be "cost effective"! Plus it just sounds like a move backward rather than forward.

    And as far as Mr. Gore. I would not speak too loudly, he might hear you! Hipocrisy is pretty much what our "current" political system is "built" upon. If you're not a hypocrite you should NOT be serving in congress! lol Trust our "elected" officials? I don't think so!

    Morons all the way around constantly pontificating on what THEY DON'T KNOW or UNDERSTAND! A less "educated" elite, I've rarely seen in my lifetime. What do these guys do? Crawl under a rock and READ nothing in ANY field?

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  • htrdln
    htrdln Posts: 116
    edited January 2013
    ha like the freon is eating our atmosphere lol when proven wrong the guy said well i still think its bad.. lol
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,957
    edited January 2013
    Hmmm....so plucking carbon out of the air.....does that mean we now need more carbon in the air to pluck ? Fire up those diesel engines boys. LOL....never will be cost effective and doesn't fit the message.
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