Specifically from carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide in car / bus / train / aircraft / boat exhaust.
Can it be extracted into a liquid or solid intermediate form and kept in a reservoir in the vehicle for periodic collection?
I’m not asking if this is feasible right now, just if it’s possible.
The contamination would likely be the deal-breaker. Car exhaust is comparable to tobacco smoke toxin-wise. Heavy metals and other nasties that you wouldn’t expect. IF that sort of process is developed, it would be cheaper short-term to grow heaps of crops (i.e. pesticides, tractor fuel, transportation and government subsidies) and process them like they’re doing with biofuel. Like biofuel, what was originally developed as a process to use existing waste will be turned into a waste-producer in the name of maximizing short-term corporate profits.
Actually, the first line should probably read "The contamination would *hopefully* be the deal-breaker." U.S. regulations have never been brilliant and they’re going downhill fast — if there’s money to be made, they’ll fudge the data on the toxin levels.
March 4th, 2010 at 8:55 pm
It is possible, for trees, but as yet we cannot.
If you figured out how to, you’d be richer than Bill Gates.
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March 4th, 2010 at 9:13 pm
The contamination would likely be the deal-breaker. Car exhaust is comparable to tobacco smoke toxin-wise. Heavy metals and other nasties that you wouldn’t expect. IF that sort of process is developed, it would be cheaper short-term to grow heaps of crops (i.e. pesticides, tractor fuel, transportation and government subsidies) and process them like they’re doing with biofuel. Like biofuel, what was originally developed as a process to use existing waste will be turned into a waste-producer in the name of maximizing short-term corporate profits.
Actually, the first line should probably read "The contamination would *hopefully* be the deal-breaker." U.S. regulations have never been brilliant and they’re going downhill fast — if there’s money to be made, they’ll fudge the data on the toxin levels.
References :