atistic question I know
wouldn't it be smarter to contain smog and pollution and somehow get out the carbon and other useful materials from them.
seems like a waste of money just spilling it out in the air
Why not reuse smog and waste from factories ?
Austin King
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Camden Davis
I dont know how to make this not sound stupid but
instead of throwing away that free source of materials and harming the earth.
Why not reuse it to make different products .
Brayden Long
We can use the excess CO2 for plant growth.
Bentley Wilson
It's waste because no one needs it for anything. It's just water, CO2 and another chemicals on top. If you want to use the actual matter in it, the purification process would probably be more expensive than just getting what you need from nature directly
Michael Butler
because the cost to capture and extract anything from it is more than you could sell it for.
>We can use the excess CO2 for plant growth.
you are dumb
Ethan Brown
carbon is literally dirt cheap
Cooper Rodriguez
Usually uneconomical.
There are exceptions. Coal-burning powerplants produce flyash which used to just go up the stack and into your lungs. Utilities were forced to install electrostatic precipitators to catch it. Now they sell it and recoup at least part of their costs. Improves the properties of concrete and asphalt paving among other uses.
Joseph Robinson
>you are dumb
It is literally what greenhouse owners do. They pump in extra CO2 to enhance plant growth. Google, "greenhouse CO2 enrichment".
Samuel Hill
>Usually uneconomical.
>power plants
lol Nothing about power plants is economical in the first place. That's why all of them in all types are heavily subsidized.
Dominic Morales
desulfurization
Charles Miller
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do you own a car?
Cameron Wright
the stuff we throw in the air is the stuff that isn't profitable to reuse
Henry Anderson
>what greenhouse owners do
you know what else they do?
-control the temperature
-water the plants
Chase Green
Same reason why you don't eat your own shit
Brody Cook
>not eating your own shit
you're missing out on free food
Jaxon Thompson
CO2 especially has very little use. Sodapop maybe. The only way to deal with all the CO2 we generate is bury it underground which is what we've been doing so far but there's limits to that as well. The best solution is just stop burning the shit in the first place and move to renewable energy and nuclear.
Camden Powell
if co2 is that dangerous why not just plant few more trees
maybe even irrigate deserts and plant them there
oh wait can't touch the deserts natural habitats touching is destroying the environment yeah okay sweetie.
when will you admit you just hate people?
Joseph Hall
>if co2 is that dangerous why not just plant few more trees
And do what with the trees once they die?
Did you even bother to back-of-an-envelope the number of tree we'd need to plant?
>maybe even irrigate deserts and plant them there
You can't just put a hose on the Sahara and get a rainforest. That's not how it works.
>oh wait can't touch the deserts natural habitats touching is destroying the environment yeah okay sweetie.
Well, yes. Solutions that avoid fucking yet more things up generally are preferable.
>when will you admit you just hate people?
You first.
Ryan Lee
did you forget about the gm bailout luls
Chase Jackson
People this retarded shouldnt be allowed to vote.
Grayson Phillips
Beat me to it.
When you supplement co2 you have to increase the temp
Sebastian Sanders
They won't be in a decade or two at most. Then we'll have a chance to set things right.
Joshua Gomez
it would be, it would also be expensive, and the (((owners))) of those factories will not spend money.
The really smart thing is to go full nuclear and stop burning shit altogether (unless its hydrogen from electrolysis)
Robert Baker
They bubble up coal SO2 through lime or something to make Gypsum. Free sheetrock
Anthony Ramirez
You can use CO2 and H20 to make alcohol but it requires quite a lot of energy to create. many other things you can make as well but this is a promising concept apparently...
This is why it is uneconomical, the energy investments to do it are quite high.
There has however been some research into catalysts to make the reactions slightly cheaper per se.
Here is an example of what i mean:
nature.com
The abstract should be enough to give you an idea. There is always more out there if you google it.