Return_of_Chippy@lemmy.world to science@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 days agoCO2 Scrubbing Microbes Discovered in Underground Laboratory.phys.orgexternal-linkmessage-square73linkfedilinkarrow-up1229arrow-down12cross-posted to: technology@lemmy.world
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minus-squaresparkyshocks@lemmy.ziplinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·3 days agoRead the article. They’re hoping to mass manufacture the enzymes involved, which have the following advantages over carbon capture through plant life: Can work in much harsher environments, with higher operating temperatures, pressures, and acidity. Captures the carbon in calcium carbonate, which is more stable in retaining the carbon compared to decomposing plant matter. Works much faster than plants do
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoSounds like you want a peat bog
minus-squareNalivai@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·3 days agoIt takes approximately a thousand years to form a meter of a peat bog. We don’t have this much time unfortunately.
minus-squarequick_snail@feddit.nllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-22 days agoRight. Destroy all the coal plants yesterday and ban burning carbon
Read the article. They’re hoping to mass manufacture the enzymes involved, which have the following advantages over carbon capture through plant life:
Sounds like you want a peat bog
It takes approximately a thousand years to form a meter of a peat bog. We don’t have this much time unfortunately.
Right. Destroy all the coal plants yesterday and ban burning carbon