From: "James Annan" <[email protected]> Newsgroups: gmane.science.general.global-change To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 2:11 AM Subject: [Global Change: 3136] Re: CO2 --> C + O2 ?
Nick Santos wrote: >> 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. > >In terms of absorbing solar radiation and using it to photosynthesise, >plants are not very efficient at all when compared to various solar >schemes for energy collection. Here's one step: CO2 --> CO + O http://www.sandia.gov/news/resources/releases/2007/sunshine.html Now I wonder if feeding CO back into this machine in a second step would give me my carbon black to remove from the global carbon cycle CO --> C + O ? -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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
