OrionWorks wrote: > Thanks Stephen, Jed, > > That's what I kind-a thot, but wanted verification. > > I knew at least enough from basic chemistry to know that molecules > like H2O and CO2 are at the bottom of their respective energy wells. > They would need an external energy source applied in order to break > the covalent bonds.
Well, actually, if you want to picky about it, and if by "burn" you mean "oxidize" (rather than the more specific meaning of "combine with oxygen"), then I bet you *could* burn CO2 quite nicely ... at least, if you had a flourine atmosphere to play with. Off hand I'd even guess that it would "burn" so well in the presence of flourine that a stoichiometric mixture of CO2 and F2 might be explosive. But this is just wild speculation; I didn't look up the redox potentials or anything else before posting it... > > IOW, the CO2 sequestering technology endeavors to essentially > transform portions of our underground into a gigantic fizzy's tablet. > This seems reminiscent to a scene in the movie, "Animal House", when > Dean Vernon Wormer lamented "Who dumped a whole truck-load of fizzies > into the swim-meet?" > > http://www.uselessmoviequotes.com/umq_a005.htm > > Regards > Steven Vincent Johnson > www.OrionWorks.com > www.zazzle.com/orionworks >
