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31 comments on BP: A power plant that reuses carbon dioxide?

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triphop on February 11, 2006 - 10:53pm Permalink | Subthread | Comments top
Yes - it might have impurities but we can store them along with the CO2.  IMHO the only feasible way to get the CO2 out the atmosphere is to bio-engineer stuff that deals with it in the oceans.  Some hybrid that photosynthesizes like mad.  Yes,  its a desperate measure.

For the demand side:  What other approaches other than turning off the engines?

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danp on February 12, 2006 - 11:03am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
You don't really need any bio-engineering, just some plain (and quite simple) engineering. There is an idea of using iron fertilization to increase phytoplankton growth in oceans, which could potentially make a big difference. There are lots of uncertainties, tough, like what it would do the ecosystem.
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retro on February 12, 2006 - 4:41pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
There was an old lady that swallowed a fly... We'd want to be desperate before going too far with this, no?
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Engineer-Poet on February 13, 2006 - 12:32am Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
No, all you have to do to get CO2 out of the atmosphere is to grow biofuels and not dump the carbon back.  I proposed a model in Going negative.
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