Nano-crystals Which Absorb CO2
By Nick March 5, 2008
A researcher named Omar Yaghi, from the UCLA, has developed nano-crystals that absorb carbon dioxide. The absorbing crystals can “eat” up to 80 times their volume. According to Omar, these nano-crystals can be useful for engines because it can absorb the carbon dioxide before it reaches the air.
Omar Yaghi and his team can study the process with the help of a custom designed robot - this robot fills cells with crystal samples, scans the samples with a X-Ray in order to determine their structure and the nano-crystals that absorb CO2 are taken in for further studying.
If this technology could cancel the carbon dioxide emissions coming from cars then we would have a cleaner and the global warming could be gone in a decade (I hope).
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wow, thats really cool! I wonder how someone gets money to work on stuff like that.
Well, I bet anything that has to do with preventing CO2 emissions can get good funding.
Can this technology also be used within coatings like paints on buildings to absorp CO2 from the air?
Lets make some buoys made of this stuff and drop them in specific locatios of the ocean and study thier effects on thier surroundings. Perhaps make some water pumps with piping made of this material and have them assist with removing the CO2.
The ocean, as we have found, is a natural way for the Earth to remove CO2. With it’s inability to keep up with the CO2 emissions of today, perhaps an extraction of what’s there would help renew it’s capabilities.
Should this prove to help, boats and sips could be retofitted with some of this material. Airplanes, panels on satellites, whole exhaust systems on vehicles.
This is a very serious matter that can not be dismissed as minorly important any longer.