Good one Rob! What the heck are you doing up at 12:30AM EDT - still coming down from the Steelers-Colts game? Anyway, in honesty I haven't read the paper, but doubt they've solved the (de)capture energy cost problem, not to mention what to do with molecular CO2. Also noted that Germany has voted down CCS and nuclear power. So much for those wedges. Air capture anyone?
Regards, Greg ________________________________________ From: Robert H. Socolow [[email protected]] Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2011 9:18 PM To: Rau, Greg; [email protected] Subject: RE: New green, abiotic CO2 capture Was it captured "colorimetrically" to see how green it was? -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rau, Greg Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 12:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [geo] New green, abiotic CO2 capture Strong and Reversible Binding of Carbon Dioxide in a Green Metal-Organic Framework http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/ja206525x The efficient capture and storage of gaseous CO2 is a pressing environmental problem. Although porous metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been shown to be very effective at adsorbing CO2 selectively by dint of dipole-quadruple interactions and/or ligation to open metal sites, the gas is not usually trapped covalently. Furthermore, the vast majority of these MOFs are fabricated from nonrenewable materials, often in the presence of harmful solvents, most of which are derived from petrochemical sources. Herein we report the highly selective adsorption of CO2 by CD-MOF-2, a recently described green MOF consisting of the renewable cyclic oligosaccharide γ-cyclodextrin and RbOH, by what is believed to be reversible carbon fixation involving carbonate formation and decomposition at room temperature. The process was monitored by solid-state 13C NMR spectroscopy as well as colorimetrically after a pH indicator was incorporated into CD-MOF-2 to signal the formation of carbonic acid functions within the nanoporous extended framework. Still the problem of what to do with CO2 once captured. - G -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en.
