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Researchers have used liquid metals to turn carbon dioxide back into solid coal, in a world-first breakthrough that could transform our approach to carbon capture and storage.
The research team led by RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia, have developed a new technique that can efficiently convert CO2 from a gas into solid particles of carbon.
Published in the journal Nature Communications, the research offers an alternative pathway for safely and permanently removing the greenhouse gas from our atmosphere.
Current technologies for carbon capture and storage focus on compressing CO2 into a liquid form, transporting it to a suitable site and injecting it underground.
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Climate Rewind: Scientists Turn Carbon Dioxide Back Into Coal
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Madness takes its toll.
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday March 01 2019, @09:10AM
Arguably it's Carbon-Negative, because not all parts of the plant are suitable for making fuel.
Consider the use of Palm Oil as motor fuel; only the fruit of the tree is pressed. The vast majority of that tree actually _sequesters_ Carbon in quite an efficient, lo-tech and cheap-as-dirt way.
Not long ago I read that "One Tree Captures One Ton Of Carbon In Ten Years". While arguably that's a marketing tagline rather than an actually-measured average, there is no doubt that a ten year old tree weighs quite a lot with a substantial chunk of that weight being Carbon alone.
Got some land? Plant an orchard.
Got a front lawn? Plant a fruit tree or a nut tree and you can feed the homeless.
Hate the poor? Enjoy the fruits and nuts of your _back_ yard instead!
As for me... I've got four dried Avocado pits soaking in some water even as we speak. When I get home tomorrow morning, I'll stick three toothpicks into each one then set then atop jars of water.
Dad used to do that, it was quite cool but I never asked what he actually did with the trees when they got too big for our kitchen window. I'm hoping that he planted them somewhere but I don't actually know. Mom's memory for stuff like that is quite hazy.
It gets cold where I live, so when I make my occasional road trips to California to visit friends and family, I'll take some young Avo trees with me. For the most I'll plant them along the same railroad tracks I myself walked down for most of the two hundred miles from Santa Cruz to Oceano Dunes State Beach near SLO.
This because quite a lot of people walk up and down those tracks. Or rather, well-away from them, but in parallel. This because three trains go like ninety miles an hour in that part of the fertile California countryside.
Good Times.
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