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Title: Can captured carbon be put to good use?
Post by: thedoc on 06/09/2011 17:39:36

Richard Hollingham explores the process of carbon capture and utilisation where the carbon removed from our atmosphere could be turned into bricks and mortar...
Read a transcript of the interview by clicking here (http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/interviews/interview/1790/)

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Title: Can captured carbon be put to good use?
Post by: CliffordK on 06/09/2011 20:02:36

Interesting. 

The scale would have to be enormous to absorb a billion tons of carbon dioxide every year.

How reactive is the end product?  Does it dissolve in water?

Title: Can captured carbon be put to good use?
Post by: Bored chemist on 07/09/2011 19:17:31

Wouldn't a timber building be easier?

Title: Can captured carbon be put to good use?
Post by: CliffordK on 08/09/2011 20:48:41

Quote from: Bored chemist on 07/09/2011 19:17:31

Wouldn't a timber building be easier?

Perhaps we should start building more log cabins and log houses...  just to maximize the use of timber.  Except that we can barely sustain our timber needs as it is.

Title: Can captured carbon be put to good use?
Post by: chris on 09/09/2011 08:35:58

Quote from: Bored chemist on 07/09/2011 19:17:31

Wouldn't a timber building be easier?

Good point, but timber has a habit of rotting, returning the embodied carbon to the atmosphere...

Title: Can captured carbon be put to good use?
Post by: CliffordK on 09/09/2011 10:21:04

Quote from: chris on 09/09/2011 08:35:58

Quote from: Bored chemist on 07/09/2011 19:17:31

Wouldn't a timber building be easier?

Good point, but timber has a habit of rotting, returning the embodied carbon to the atmosphere...

We can treat the wood with toxic petroleum products  [^]

Title: Can captured carbon be put to good use?
Post by: chris on 10/09/2011 08:57:31

Very funny!

Title: Can captured carbon be put to good use?
Post by: Mazurka on 26/09/2011 10:38:26

Nice idea, but I would be very interested to see how much energy is actually put in!

Surely it would be better (and perhaps Jim Bob could help here) to pump it into depleted hydrocarbon reservoir rocks to enhance oil/ gas recovery and lock it away back underground.  A lot of the infrastructure/ technology is already there.
Interesting paper at http://ie.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/scientific_publications/2005/EUR21895EN.pdf (http://ie.jrc.ec.europa.eu/publications/scientific_publications/2005/EUR21895EN.pdf)

Title: Can captured carbon be put to good use?
Post by: Apple on 04/10/2011 02:11:10

they did make an effective carbon cleaner system that took in more co2 then produced and though of putting the carbon liquid  solution in dryed up oil deposits to make more oil or shooting co2 frozen missiles to the bottom of the ocean