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Saturday, August 22nd, 2015

Researchers use solar power to make carbon fiber out of thin air

Author:     Nassir Isaf
Source:     Salon
Publication Date:     Thursday, Aug 20, 2015 11:37 AM PDT
 Link: Researchers use solar power to make carbon fiber out of thin air
Stephan:   Here is a potential climate change game changer. Potentially, as this report describes, this offers hope of real remediation. What do you think? Do we have the political will to do this? We have hundreds of billions to squander on the F-35 all service fighter aircraft in an age increasingly given over to drones, so clearly it is not a question of money.
In this Feb. 26, 2015 photo, solar panels that are part of the Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric Association's community gardens are shown in Rockford, Minn. Community solar gardens are a new concept in renewable energy, allowing customers who cannot put up solar panels to buy into the green energy boom anyway. Credit: AP Photo/Jim Mone

In this Feb. 26, 2015 photo, solar panels that are part of the Wright-Hennepin Cooperative Electric Association’s community gardens are shown in Rockford, Minn. Community solar gardens are a new concept in renewable energy, allowing customers who cannot put up solar panels to buy into the green energy boom anyway.
Credit: AP Photo/Jim Mone

Carbon capture is an idea that’s been around for a while, but it’s always seemed like a bit of an afterthought, a way to slightly slow the pace at which we’re pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. But what if we could do at a scale that would suck all the carbon we’ve emitted since the industrial revolution right out out of the atmosphere, and turn it into something incredibly […]

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1 Comment

  1. Norm on Sunday, August 23, 2015 at 9:44 pm

    Sounds hopeful, but the U.S. will be the last country on the planet to adopt something like this through government policy. As a school board member in a community I lived in once said “I don’t know what it is, but I’m agin it!” Typical American response.