Researchers from the University of Florida have discovered certain bacteria on the ocean floor could neutralize massive quantities of industrial carbon dioxide.
Because carbon dioxide, the primary greenhouse gas emitted by human activity, is a key culprit in climate change, scientists from a variety of disciplines have been searching for ways to effectively capture and neutralize the gas.
The UF researchers discovered that an enzyme produced by the bacteria Thiomicrospira crunogena, can convert the harmful gas into a benign compound. The enzyme carbonic anhydrase can actually strip carbon dioxide from organisms, the researchers say.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 27 2015, @06:44AM
Industry won't touch thorium because of all the regulations around it being a nuclear per-cursor material (and is regulated under the nuclear non-proliferation treaty).
As for the Tesla, I think think that the 85kWh version may work as a taxi. Would require over-night charging (on a fast charger) (and no "insane mode"), but the driver needs to sleep sometime.
My second link speaks directly to the stuff you say is here today, and not some speculation. "Green" technologies are being built in China because that is the only country willing to mine thorium. As a result, they control the vast majority of the rare earth market.