 Treehugger has a post today called "7 Geoengineering Solutions Which Promise To Save Humans from Climate Change" And I was immediately intrigued, I wanted to know what grandiose solutions could possibly be saviors.
One of the ideas was to Trap CO2 in Carbon Scrubbers...
Further intrigued am I.
Researchers at Columbia University say that soon they may have a working carbon scrubber which could take one ton of CO2 out of the air per day.
Which immediately made me wonder where they would then put the CO2. To which I found a response from the Columbia University researchers. "Klaus Lackner, a physicist at Columbia University in New York, and his colleagues have a few ideas, which they outlined in their patent application: the scrubber could be connected to greenhouses, where the CO2 would boost plant growth; or use it to grow algae, which could be used for fertilizer, food or fuel." It seems these folks have the answers.
The problem is that this scrubber costs $200,000 to make. And we all know how much money is floating around these days, or lack-there-of rather.
This particular machine is up for the $25K prize to be won at the Virgin Earth Challenge.
In other carbon related news, the city of Philadelphia is launching a new Carbon Offset Website. The site was built by The Energy Coordinating Agency which is a private, non-profit corporation dedicated to ensuring that low and moderate income people have access to safe, affordable and reliable sources of energy and water.Labels: carbon emissions, carbon offsets, carbon scrubbers, philadelphia, treehugger, virgin earth challenge |
