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CO2 is 0.04% of the atmosphere. Oxygen is 21%. We're not going to run out of oxygen.
by dataflow 5y ago
CO2 is 0.04% of the atmosphere. Oxygen is 21%. We're not going to run out of oxygen.
- alkyon 5y agoI don't understand the downvotes. The idea of turning excess oxigen into CO2 which I replied to is plainly stupid just because of this proportion. How much coal (and oxygen) would we use up to bring down CO2 levels to 0.03?
- _nalply 5y agoI don't understand your question. GP proposed to filter out O2 by burning carbon. This will create a CO2-rich gas, perhaps at about 30% (depends of the density of CO2 compared to O2). GP didn't mean that we deplete oxygen in the athmosphere, but that this is an intermediate step inside the CO2 scrubbing apparatus. Perhaps that's why you got downvotes. The burnt carbon will be gained back by the Gallium process, however this might not work out anyway because the process needs to be very efficient in filtering out CO2, as someone else already pointed out. In my opinion the idea of burning hydrogen seems a lot better: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29994000 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29994000