US scientists develop "CO2 converter"

[Rich19]

It's a good start, but it needs to be made a LOT smaller to be effective.

[Mephistopheles]

Originally Posted by Rich19

It's a good start, but it needs to be made a LOT smaller to be effective.

But where do you want to store the extracted CO2? Underground? On the bottom of the ocean?

Too dangerous in my opinion.

[Tas]

Originally Posted by Mephistopheles

But where do you want to store the extracted CO2? Underground? On the bottom of the ocean?

Too dangerous in my opinion.

We really need some orbital elevators.

[nanobot_swarm]

dump the CO2 in tree filled domes

[Tas]

Originally Posted by nanobot_swarm

dump the CO2 in tree filled domes

Why just not the CO2 sponges and plant more trees out in the open? Oh, and stop raping the amazon..

[Captain Fist]

Environmentalism ftw, I say.

[GreatGrizzly]

The tree filled dome idea is pretty good.

Anyways, let them invent these devices. If this can lead to a true CO2 converter, imagine the possiblities, specially in space flight: unlimited oxygen.

[Crazy Wolf]

Scrubbers/converters are nice for space travel, but I'd prefer trees, or more efficiently, bamboo. Carbon sequestration's the game, Bamboo's an excellent solution, it is strong, fast-growing, doesn't require many nutrients, and makes good scaffolding material/flooring material/paper/(acceptable) clothing material. Oh, and bamboo shoots are used in many Southeast Asian recipes, at least the ones that the people who took bamboo from our yard used.

To sum it up, bamboo:
stores carbon
grows quickly
provides food
provides clothing
provides shelter
provides education (paper, a bit of a stretch on my part).

Hey, beats the American prison system (required to provide food, clothing, shelter, and medical attention, last I checked). If only you could derive medicine from it, it's be a total knock out. Hmm, you could probably use individual chambers as vials or maybe IVs...

Basically, the bad thing about bamboo is that it grows so fast it tends to overtake other plant life. That's right, the bad thing about this plant is that it stores carbon(grows) at a speed faster than we like.

[NCC1017spock]

I think they should use trees for earth, and use a similar technogoly on mars one day to begin terraforming it.....

But can they do the reverse of this? Make a machine the can produce Co2 or Oxygen or nitgrongen? Then that would slove alot of other problems, but atleast this is a start....

[Mr. Matt]

Originally Posted by NCC1017spock

I think they should use trees for earth, and use a similar technogoly on mars one day to begin terraforming it.....

But can they do the reverse of this? Make a machine the can produce Co2 or Oxygen or nitgrongen? Then that would slove alot of other problems, but atleast this is a start....

Mars' atmosphere has the reverse problem - it is too thin to hold in much heat. Capturing CO2 there would make it worse, we need to release some to get a greenhouse effect going. However you may have hit a different nail than you intended - employ these devices to capture unwanted carbon dioxide from Earth's atmosphere, then dump the stuff on Mars.