Comments on: Could we solve global warming by sucking CO2 from the air? http://inhabitat.com/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/ Green design & eco innovation for a better world Sun, 19 May 2013 18:10:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: Peter Griffiths http://inhabitat.com/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-89124 Peter Griffiths Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:31:46 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/06/09/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/#comment-89124 There's a lot of speculation and dreaming about saving the planet from a disaster of epic proportions. We are faced with an environmental disaster of epic proportions! - did you know it so grave that China is commissioning one new CO2 emitting Power Plant each and every week. Our mission is to ensure survival of life on this planet - and to our knowledge no other practical universal solution free of bi-products and not requiring further capital expenditure on buildings and treatment plants for waste from the reduction process exists to limit emissions exists. We are interested to partner with like-minded, existing well financed and honest government agencies, and businesses with R&D / Engineering capability, interested to deeply and rapidly penetrate target markets globally. Your enquiries and expressions of interest are welcomed. Your help is needed. Peter Griffiths - for details www.climatecleanup.com There’s a lot of speculation and dreaming about saving the planet from a disaster of epic proportions.
We are faced with an environmental disaster of epic proportions! – did you know it so grave that China is commissioning one new CO2 emitting Power Plant each and every week.

Our mission is to ensure survival of life on this planet – and to our knowledge no other practical universal solution free of bi-products and not requiring further capital expenditure on buildings and treatment plants for waste from the reduction process exists to limit emissions exists.

We are interested to partner with like-minded, existing well financed and honest government agencies, and businesses with R&D / Engineering capability, interested to deeply and rapidly penetrate target markets globally. Your enquiries and expressions of interest are welcomed.

Your help is needed.

Peter Griffiths – for details http://www.climatecleanup.com

]]> By: Peter Griffiths http://inhabitat.com/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-89122 Peter Griffiths Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:27:53 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/06/09/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/#comment-89122 The fundamental to handle the CO2 problem is to confront it and actually cut the CO2 emissions. The primary driver is fast action in reducing CO2 emissions. Our own purpose is clearly stated: - "Saving the planet from an environmental disaster of epic proportions is an urgent matter and needs collaborative effort" - People and organizations with a similar purpose to our own will actually make something happen to to save life on the planet. Unlike the Y2k computer problem we do not have a definite date to work toward to save the world from disaster.. Peter Griffiths http://climatecleanup.com The fundamental to handle the CO2 problem is to confront it and actually cut the CO2 emissions.
The primary driver is fast action in reducing CO2 emissions.

Our own purpose is clearly stated:

- “Saving the planet from an environmental disaster of epic proportions is an urgent matter and needs collaborative effort” –

People and organizations with a similar purpose to our own will actually make something happen to
to save life on the planet.

Unlike the Y2k computer problem we do not have a definite date to work toward to save the world from disaster..

Peter Griffiths
http://climatecleanup.com

]]> By: jaz http://inhabitat.com/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-85115 jaz Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:38:11 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/06/09/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/#comment-85115 IT's been unseasonably cool here in denver so far this spring. IT’s been unseasonably cool here in denver so far this spring.

]]> By: * Arctic Times * | arctic.pure http://inhabitat.com/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-85096 * Arctic Times * | arctic.pure Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:06:17 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/06/09/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/#comment-85096 [...] Inhabitat highlighted the story of a very ingenious solution to the threat of global warming: Co2 suction from the atmosphere. A group of scientists from Columbia University think that this ultimate [...] [...] Inhabitat highlighted the story of a very ingenious solution to the threat of global warming: Co2 suction from the atmosphere. A group of scientists from Columbia University think that this ultimate [...]

]]> By: hambargarz http://inhabitat.com/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-85062 hambargarz Fri, 13 Jun 2008 03:54:19 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/06/09/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/#comment-85062 water vapour? isn't water vapour also a greenhouse gas? water vapour? isn’t water vapour also a greenhouse gas?

]]> By: Scott http://inhabitat.com/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-84783 Scott Tue, 10 Jun 2008 23:42:07 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/06/09/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/#comment-84783 water vapor or not, what do you do with the CO2 that you had absorbed and then removed from the sheet. Where do you remove it to? why not just move it to the place you need it immediately? my sci-fi reader brain has a carbon refinery next to the power plant that takes the carbon from the exhaust and turns it into carbon fiber to replace plastics and metals. either that or it pumps the air across pools of photosynthetic bacteria that clean the air and produce more electricity. ;) keep dreaming right... Hey BJ do you think Jorge is hot? and blond? thats cute. ;) water vapor or not, what do you do with the CO2 that you had absorbed and then removed from the sheet. Where do you remove it to? why not just move it to the place you need it immediately? my sci-fi reader brain has a carbon refinery next to the power plant that takes the carbon from the exhaust and turns it into carbon fiber to replace plastics and metals. either that or it pumps the air across pools of photosynthetic bacteria that clean the air and produce more electricity. ;) keep dreaming right…

Hey BJ do you think Jorge is hot? and blond? thats cute. ;)

]]> By: rh http://inhabitat.com/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-84723 rh Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:12:01 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/06/09/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/#comment-84723 apparently trees only absorb CO2 during the first 55 years (roughly) of their life… http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-06/ff_heresies_04forests apparently trees only absorb CO2 during the first 55 years (roughly) of their life…
http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/magazine/16-06/ff_heresies_04forests

]]> By: Barbara P. http://inhabitat.com/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-84713 Barbara P. Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:37:59 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/06/09/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/#comment-84713 Isn\'t that what trees are doing ? Sucking CO2 out of the air! Isn\’t that what trees are doing ? Sucking CO2 out of the air!

]]> By: BJ http://inhabitat.com/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-84678 BJ Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:55:34 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/06/09/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/#comment-84678 Hey, what do you expect from the web's hottest eco-blonds. ;-) Sheldon Says: +0June 9th, 2008 at 8:07 am ...the propagation of “mis-information” is a touch frustrating in helping the true cause. The top photo is of water cooling towers which are emitting water vapour, not CO2! Hey, what do you expect from the web’s hottest eco-blonds. ;-)

Sheldon Says: +0June 9th, 2008 at 8:07 am
…the propagation of “mis-information” is a touch frustrating in helping the true cause. The top photo is of water cooling towers which are emitting water vapour, not CO2!

]]> By: cpine http://inhabitat.com/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-84644 cpine Tue, 10 Jun 2008 07:40:13 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/06/09/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/#comment-84644 ...and there is a problem with attempting to do reforestation in areas that are depopulating? THAT is really a "green" way of sequestering CO2!! Looking at this techno-babel, is it the un-spoken notion that this technology would "make up" for ripping out more rainforest or bog or whatever. Put the converters on the roof of the "tree museums" and use "carbon credits" to pay for them? What humbug! …and there is a problem with attempting to do reforestation in areas that are depopulating? THAT is really a “green” way of sequestering CO2!! Looking at this techno-babel, is it the un-spoken notion that this technology would “make up” for ripping out more rainforest or bog or whatever. Put the converters on the roof of the “tree museums” and use “carbon credits” to pay for them? What humbug!

]]> By: Brian Lang http://inhabitat.com/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-84540 Brian Lang Mon, 09 Jun 2008 15:39:03 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/06/09/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/#comment-84540 $200K per ton of CO2 to start. That would come down if they choose to mass-produce. Also, is there not an X-Prize for this kind of technology? $200K per ton of CO2 to start. That would come down if they choose to mass-produce. Also, is there not an X-Prize for this kind of technology?

]]> By: Snark http://inhabitat.com/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-84518 Snark Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:13:08 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/06/09/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/#comment-84518 "Powerful tool if it comes to pass." Except not really. $200k per ton of CO2 equates to a mist-droplet in a bucket. For the price, you could save an order of magnitude more carbon from ever being emitted by refitting an older house with vacuum glass and good insulation, or by fitting a few city buses with hydraulic hybrid setups. Nothing meaningful will ever come out of ways to suck carbon already emitted out of the air. It's being added far faster than it will ever be sequestered. Best to concentrate our efforts on ways to prevent it from being emitted in the first place, rather than trying to stuff the genie back in the bottle. “Powerful tool if it comes to pass.”

Except not really. $200k per ton of CO2 equates to a mist-droplet in a bucket. For the price, you could save an order of magnitude more carbon from ever being emitted by refitting an older house with vacuum glass and good insulation, or by fitting a few city buses with hydraulic hybrid setups.

Nothing meaningful will ever come out of ways to suck carbon already emitted out of the air. It’s being added far faster than it will ever be sequestered. Best to concentrate our efforts on ways to prevent it from being emitted in the first place, rather than trying to stuff the genie back in the bottle.

]]> By: Sheldon http://inhabitat.com/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/comment-page-1/#comment-84517 Sheldon Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:07:56 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/06/09/device-sucks-co2-from-the-atmosphere/#comment-84517 Although this article and the technology behind it appears sound, I find myself having to point out the propagation of "mis-information" is a touch frustrating in helping the true cause. The top photo is of water cooling towers which are emitting water vapour, not CO2! The tower which emits all the harmful nasty stuff at coal (and other fossil fuel based) power stations are the tall thin ones that emits little sign of visible smoke. Please don't give the non-believers more ammo by using incorrect "shock" pictures to try and promote reasons for change. (similar comments about this lack of global warming information are discussed at the Royal Society of Chemistry's website: http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2007/coolingtowersmyth.asp ) Although this article and the technology behind it appears sound, I find myself having to point out the propagation of “mis-information” is a touch frustrating in helping the true cause. The top photo is of water cooling towers which are emitting water vapour, not CO2!

The tower which emits all the harmful nasty stuff at coal (and other fossil fuel based) power stations are the tall thin ones that emits little sign of visible smoke. Please don’t give the non-believers more ammo by using incorrect “shock” pictures to try and promote reasons for change.

(similar comments about this lack of global warming information are discussed at the Royal Society of Chemistry’s website:
http://www.rsc.org/AboutUs/News/PressReleases/2007/coolingtowersmyth.asp )

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