On 2/25/2014 2:52 PM, LizR wrote:
On 26 February 2014 11:18, meekerdb <meeke...@verizon.net <mailto:meeke...@verizon.net>>
wrote:
On 2/25/2014 1:23 PM, LizR wrote:
The great thing about using an energy grid is you can plug in new
components
(i.e. different types of generators - nuclear etc) and everything
continues to
work the same way downstream.
This is why I'm keen on the idea of extracting CO2 from the air and
making
petrol, if possible. No change is required to the energy
infrastructure, as
there would be with say hydrogen or electric cars, but it's carbon
neutral. We'd
get a closed cycle in which the atmosphere was just a temporary
reservoir for
the materials needed to make the fuel. Presumably we'd eventually be
able to
extract CO2 at a rate that even reduced the amount of GHGs in the air.
That's essentially what the research on hydrocarbon producing algae and
bacteris is
trying to do.
Well, that's good. I wonder if there is any more efficient way of doing it (or do we
have to wait for nanomachines which can grab passing molecules and stick them together?)
Dunno, but nano-machines are what algae and bacteria are - and self manufacturing to
boot. So I'd try for some genetic engineering to improve their efficiency, rather than
trying to make nanobots from scratch.
Brent
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