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Could we not harness the CO2 emissions and use them to create extremely dense forests (or other plants that need CO2 to grow), then pump the oxygen created by t
by antihero 13y ago
Could we not harness the CO2 emissions and use them to create extremely dense forests (or other plants that need CO2 to grow), then pump the oxygen created by the plants and use it to feed the animals?
- gizmo686 13y agoI don't think that CO2 is the limiting reactant in plant growth. If I remember my bio/chem right, plants use sunlight to produce sugars using the carbon from CO2. The sugars act as an energy store, and the energy can later be reclaimed by doing the inverse reaction, which involves taking O2 and producing CO2. Providing more CO2 would increase the theoretical capacity for them to store energy, however CO2 is abundant and it would not help with the limiting reactant, sunlight.