{"id":12016,"date":"2017-09-29T00:03:56","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T05:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=12016"},"modified":"2017-09-29T00:03:56","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T05:03:56","slug":"carbon-dioxide-unbalanced-ctd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/09\/29\/carbon-dioxide-unbalanced-ctd-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Dioxide Unbalanced, Ctd"},"content":{"rendered":"

In view of the recent report<\/a> on the drop in nutrients in crops, this report<\/a> from Science Magazine<\/strong><\/em> doesn’t seem like such a good idea:<\/p>\n

The world’s first commercial plant for capturing carbon dioxide directly from the air opened yesterday, refueling a debate about whether the technology can truly play a significant role in removing greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n

The Climeworks AG facility near Zurich becomes the first ever to capture CO2 at industrial scale from air and sell it directly to a buyer.<\/p>\n

Developers say the plant will capture about 900 tons of CO2 annually \u2014 or the approximate level released from 200 cars \u2014 and pipe the gas to help grow vegetables.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Unless the veggies are fixing the CO2<\/sub> in the ground rather than incorporating it into the plants themselves, as indicated in the initial post<\/a> on this thread, this strikes me as little more than running in place. Of course, maybe they envisage burying the plants after growing them … sorry, no. They will think they can sell them and turn a profit while doing good.<\/p>\n

Looks like fixing the environment will be harder than that. This sort of shallow thinking just isn’t going to cut it:<\/p>\n

[Christoph Gebald, co-founder and managing director of Climeworks] and Climeworks co-founder Jan Wurzbacher said the CO2 could have a variety of other uses, such as carbonating beverages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kimberly Mok on Treehugger.com<\/strong><\/em> provides this video.<\/p>\n