So reading through they think it can be used to eventually make huge filters they can use for coal plants and stuff like that.
If true this could be like whatever it was they found in Project Hail Mary that ends up saving the human race.
Uh, that would kill amost all life on earth, if it was an excuse to keep burning coal
The thing about the burning coal that’s actually threatening the life right now is mostly just the carbon
Nah, it’s all greenhouse gasses.
Not to mention extremely harmful practice of extracting it from the ground.
Fortunately we have plenty of renewable energy to replace it
Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas
Yes. One of many
So how exactly do you figure implementing carbon capture tech would kill all life on earth?
It makes an excuse for the fossil fuel extractors to continue burning it with impunity instead of finally switching to something that doesn’t kill us all.
So they take CO2 from the atmosphere and chemically transform it into solid materials that reduce greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere?
Congratulations you have invented plants.
I think microbes are probably a lot easier, faster, and more cost effective to produce compared to plants. It can survive in harsh conditions and create rock from the C02 at a fast rate according to the article.
Not only that, but they believe the active enzymes in the microbe can be optimized and engineered, then mixed into a liquid substrate. Becomes an enzyme-based CO2 filter with the byproduct of Calcium Carbonate, which can be used in concrete. The article talks about filling trucks with these and passing the emissions of coal-fired power plants through them.
Well that would be a disaster
Based on what
IPCC reports
Where