Is there anyway to remove large quantities of the Co2 from the atmosphere, or neutralize it?
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Not yet. But people are trying hard. If they succeed it's worth $US 25 million, at the very least.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/natur...
Plant trees. And it is already rather inert. ~
Heinz put it rather well. Trees, (and other plants) "breathe" in carbon dioxide, use it as part of its growth process, and returns oxygen to the atmosphere.
If your comminity does not have any tree preservation laws, you may consider joining or starting a campaign to start some. Meanwhile, plant trees and encourage others to do that and prevent large scale removal of trees to make room for development.
My best idea would be to plant more trees because trees breathe in co2 right?
Carbon Dioxide is inert. and less than 3% of our atmosphere. The chemical chain reaction you are looking for is photosynthesis. Every green plant on earth is sucking up the CO2 and emitting oxygen...CO2 is not a factor in anything else except putting bubbles in your Pepsi. No threat there. Rosie O'Donnels noxious breath is more of a danger to mankind. Let's all just pick up litter instead of listening to the fear mongers.
Of course, but it's not practical.
TREES TREES TREES! Trees are known as a carbon sink - in short, meaning they are one of the best resovoirs on Earth for carbon dioxide. The TDSB is planning to launch a project planting approx 6 million trees in the Greater Toronto Area. As for newer solutions, if someone can find one, that would be great. However, there are a lot of factors to consider when thinking of such a solution (e.g. a chemical chain reaction) such as other, less positive effects a possible solution may have on the environment. **Not to mention cost! The atmopshere is bigger than you think, and the negative aspects of creating a chemical chain reaction of a scale that large may severely outweigh the positive effects.
Large quantities of CO2 are removed all the time.. it's part of what causes plants to grow.
Yes, but it may take a bit of time. You want to reduce the amount of free co2 in our atmosphere and create more oxygen.
Plants produce co2 at night and produce oxygen and co2 under the sun.
http://water.me.vccs.edu/concepts/oxycyc...
Well let's stop de-forestation.
what do you think that the fiss in the soda pop/sparking water is? it is CO2.
This is way off base and partly from outer space, but if you could isolate and pump CO2 into the H2O in the ocean some of it might react to form H202 (heavy water) and the carbon might possibly sink to the bottom where it could turn to oil in a few million years. How's that for thinking like a clockwork orange?
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