On 26 Feb 2014, at 00:05, meekerdb wrote:
On 2/25/2014 2:52 PM, LizR wrote:
On 26 February 2014 11:18, meekerdb <[email protected]> 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.
Algae, bacteria, but also us, I guess.
So I'd try for some genetic engineering to improve their efficiency,
rather than trying to make nanobots from scratch.
Invest in both.
Bruno
Brent
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