{"id":639,"date":"2007-06-06T01:39:26","date_gmt":"2007-06-06T06:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=639"},"modified":"2007-06-06T01:39:26","modified_gmt":"2007-06-06T06:39:26","slug":"a-space-elevator-for-carbon-dioxide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=639","title":{"rendered":"“A Space Elevator for Carbon Dioxide”"},"content":{"rendered":"

No, not really, but I liked the title<\/a> \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 The author\u00a0is talking about an idea of UCLA physicist Alfred Wong to use a laser to alter\u00a0CO2 molecules so that\u00a0they would leave the earth’s atmosphere at the pole’s , i.e. creating a “Space Elevator” so that our excess CO2 would be dumped into space.<\/p>\n

Other than the title, the link this posting has to a “real” space elevator is an email sent to me by reader Howard Katseff over a year ago, where he wondered if\u00a0somehow\u00a0a Space Elevator “tube” could be used to funnel a power plant’s emissions\u00a0into space.\u00a0 The problem with this idea (and with Alfred Wong’s proposal) is just the sheer mass of\u00a0CO2 we spew into the atmosphere.\u00a0 According to a couple of websites I’ve looked at, we, as a planet, generate well over 20 million metric tons of CO2 each and every DAY.\u00a0 That’s a lot of gassified dry ice, more than\u00a0we can deal with via Space Elevator tubes or lasers.<\/p>\n

There’s another issue too.\u00a0 Are we so sure we want to get rid of this stuff?\u00a0 We, as a species, might need it some day.\u00a0 It would be hell to have thrown it all away and then find\u00a0out that we need\u00a0it to solve another global problem…\u00a0 Conservation, sequestration and zero-emission power plant and vehicles – I think that’s the only way to go (IMHO)…<\/p>\n

(Photo credit: Nick Russill<\/a>)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

No, not really, but I liked the title \ud83d\ude42\u00a0 The author\u00a0is talking about an idea of UCLA physicist Alfred Wong to use a laser to alter\u00a0CO2 molecules so that\u00a0they would leave the earth’s atmosphere at the pole’s , i.e. creating a “Space Elevator” so that our excess CO2 would be dumped into space. Other than […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/639\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}