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"Burying CO2 Ridiculous" - Penn State University

 
We want to point out, subsequent to our recent exchange of love notes with the Texas Big Oil contingent, that this enclosed item, about an obviously, to us, sensible suggestion made by a Penn State University scientist, was published in a Texas newspaper.
 
We've cited PSU's Craig Grimes, on the subject of CO2 recycling and carbon conversion, previously, as well as a few of his Penn State colleagues, most notably Dr. Chunsan Song. In fact, in following dispatches, we'll document even further some of Dr. Song's sensible presentations on CO2 recycling.
 
But, first, the excerpt from Houston, revealing Penn State's radically sensible stance on the matter of CO2:

"Radical idea: Why not convert carbon dioxide into fuel?

A recent study in the journal Nano Letters  discusses the possibility of using special honeycombs made of nanotubes to capture carbon dioxide and convert it into methane, the primary component in natural gas.

This is what you call making lemonade out of lemons. ... we've got all this extra carbon dioxide coming out of smokestacks. Some researchers are now asking, Hey, maybe this is actually a natural resource that we can put to work for us.

An article in Discovery News quotes the study's lead author, Craig Grimes:

"Right now there is lots of talk about burying carbon dioxide, which is ridiculous," said Craig Grimes of Penn State, who, along with Oomman Varghese, Maggie Paulose and Thomas LaTempa, co-authored a paper on the nanotubes in the journal Nano Letters. "Instead we can collect the waste out of the smoke stack, put it though a converter, and presto, use sunlight to change [CO2] back into fuel.""

When sunlight hits the copper oxide, carbon dioxide is converted into carbon monoxide. When sunlight hits the titanium oxide, water molecules split apart. The hydrogen freed from the water and the carbon freed from CO2 then recombine to create burnable methane, and the spare oxygen atoms pair up to create breathable oxygen.""

Again, in case you missed it: "burying carbon dioxide ... is ridiculous".