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Couldn't you just pump co2 out of the atmosphere if you had sufficient energy/money ?
by pirocks 9y ago
Couldn't you just pump co2 out of the atmosphere if you had sufficient energy/money ?
- Eerie 9y agoYou totally could pump it out, and I suspect that's what humanity will have to do, as clearly we are not going to stop pumping it in for a while...
- crimsonalucard 9y agopump it where?
- ItsDeathball 9y agoSeveral options: pump it back down the oil wells it came from, use fast-growing juvenile trees to "pump" it into house frames and libraries, use algae to "pump" it into useful plastics, or, if you have infinite money, bottle it and shoot it at Mars to thicken the atmosphere.
- dredmorbius 9y agoFix it to some stable form. Hydrocarbons, limestone, solid carbon ...
- sliken 9y agoIdeally into solid carbon bricks that could be used as a building material and last practically forever.
- dredmorbius 9y agoOut of the ocean might make far more sense, as the energy costs are lower. There's exchange from atmosphere to oceans.