{"id":674,"date":"2007-07-13T21:59:40","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T02:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=674"},"modified":"2007-07-13T22:01:08","modified_gmt":"2007-07-14T03:01:08","slug":"giant-carbon-dioxide-vacuums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/?p=674","title":{"rendered":"Giant Carbon Dioxide Vacuums"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several weeks ago, I wrote<\/a>about technologies available \/ hoped for on getting rid of Carbon Dioxide (CO2)\u00a0in our atmosphere.\u00a0 There are a lot of reasons why a Space Elevator “evacuator” would not be practical to use to accomplish this; separating the CO2 from the atmosphere without generating more CO2, pumping it up a “Space Elevator Tube”, gravity pulling it back down into the atmosphere, etc.\u00a0 In addition, I wonder if we really want to get rid of this stuff – there might come a day when we really need it and we’ll wish we hadn’t thrown it away.<\/p>\n

It appears though, that at least one of these problems may be solved.\u00a0 In this article<\/a>, the authors announce a technology which will separate CO2 from the atmosphere, and do so with materials that can continually be recycled.\u00a0 They use standard forms of energy to accomplish this (with the accompanying pollution), but this can be solved by powering this unit with Solar cells, making this a really clean way to get CO2 out of the atmosphere.\u00a0 The problem, of course, is what do you do with it then.\u00a0 It’s only stable in a gas form (having already been removed from it’s stable liquid (oil) form\u00a0or stable solid (coal) form).\u00a0 You’d have to compress the bejesus out of it – into something like degenerate matter.\u00a0 Then you could use a Space Elevator to haul it out of the atmosphere and, as a bonus, send it to someplace that could use it (like the moon or Mars).\u00a0 This would help those bodies develop an atmosphere.\u00a0 Of course without a magnetic field to protect the life on the body, it probably couldn’t develop in a non-protected manner, but I’ll leave the solution of that problem as an exercise for the reader.<\/p>\n

And yes, this post only has a tenuous\u00a0link to a Space Elevator, but like many others, I’m waiting for the official announcement of the upcoming Space Elevator Games too…<\/p>\n

Anyway, the article makes for interesting reading and there is also a link to a video on the post which shows the unit in action.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Several weeks ago, I wroteabout technologies available \/ hoped for on getting rid of Carbon Dioxide (CO2)\u00a0in our atmosphere.\u00a0 There are a lot of reasons why a Space Elevator “evacuator” would not be practical to use to accomplish this; separating the CO2 from the atmosphere without generating more CO2, pumping it up a “Space Elevator […]<\/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-674","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\/674","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=674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spaceelevatorblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}