I'm certainly no chemist, but the first thing I thought of was photosynthesis except that there you get useful products on all sides of the equation rather than having a waste product. I'd also wager that the plants are much more efficient than any machine we could make to do the same process, but someone who knows better could feel free to correct me. -Nick
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 2:52 AM, Don Libby <[email protected]> wrote: > It's been a long time since I've been near a chemistry classroom or > textbook, but I wonder what, besides plenty of cheap energy, would prevent > breaking the oxygen off of CO2 molelcules and dumping the elemental black > carbon into a hole in the ground? > > -dl > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. 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/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
