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Originally Posted by dyna mo
more science from a couple days ago.
A team of scientists believe they have made a "significant advance" capturing carbon dioxide with a little bit of help from one of the main ingredients in baking soda.
They developed microcapsules made up of "a highly permeable polymer shell" and a fluid composed of sodium carbonate solution* to suck out carbon dioxide from coal or natural gas-fired power plants.
The method involving the first demo of its kind for controlled CO2 capture and release can also apparently be used in industrial processes such as steel and cement production.
Boffins at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory worked alongside researchers from the University of Illinois and Harvard University to develop a carbon capture media containing core-shell microcapsules.
Ex-squeeze me? Baking soda? Boffins claim it safely sucks CO2 out of the air • The Register |
They do something similar with coal plants now, by injecting carbon into the plan't exhaust stack and then sucking it back out before it goes out the smoke stack. The carbon pulls the mercury out of the smoke before it hits the air, this is what they call "clean coal".
The problem being you exchange one form of pollution for another. Yes you stop the mercury from getting into the air, but now you have all this carbon power which is full of mercury.
granted baking laced co2 probably isn't as bad to dispose of as carbon laced with mercury, either way keeping it out of the air is better than letting it fly.