So here I am taking a bit of a break and watching the Discovery Channel about Project Earth and this whole concept of trapping frozen carbon by shooting a torpedo down into the sea floor and hence “trap” the carbon dioxide. The more I’m watching this the angrier I’m getting as there are some very [...]
I talked about this earlier but this is just very disturbing none the less. 400 dead zones have been identified around the world so far which is double what was recognized two years ago. The trouble still seems to be this whole attitude from before the 1900s that ‘man can improve on nature’when in fact [...]
It seems the folks over at the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder, Colorado have this little bet going. Will the summer sea ice at the north pole melt this year. While the prospects are rather dire there may be an upside to this which may give everyone a bit of a respite, albeit [...]
Oceanic dead zonesare vast areas of water ways that have become essentially dead due to oxygen deprivation. The process goes something like this: At the exit of river basins fertilizer run off which is heavily laces with nitrates increase phytoplankton production. While such phytoplankton are normally a good thing, being a source of food for [...]
So I was mentioning earlier this week about the idea of the reduction and recombination of CO2 to carbon fibre ribbons which could potentially then be used for buiding materials using advanced composites. There are however very few processes that can be used to reduce CO2 which are not in some way based on organic [...]
Carbon carbon everywhere and nothing left to drink. Go figure. So generally I’m facinated by this whole carbon thing going on. The nature of CO2 is such that the chemical is extreme stable and there are very little things that you can turn it into cheaply. So for example, if there was an easy process for [...]