But then the information shakes it's head, declares it wants to be free, and I'm left standing as it rushes out.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57608 ... cheap-too/
So this thing runs on stuff that drew carbon out of the air ... but won't put the carbon back!Daniel Terdiman on news.cnet.com wrote:All Power Labs makes machines that use an ancient process called gasification to turn out not only carbon-neutral energy, but also a carbon-rich charcoal by-product that just happens to be a fertilizer so efficient that Tom Price, the company's director of strategic initiatives, calls it "plant crack."
Well, at least not immediately, some of the carbon in that fertilizer will become dioxide in some manner, surely.
But still ... this isn't just climate-harmless, it removes carbon from the atmosphere, some of it more or less for good, surely, so it's climate-healing even!
And the depletion of oil and natural-gas reserves is making artificial fertilizer production look shaky, so producing a fertilizer as a by-product of producing energy in some form is double-plus useful! And if that chap is telling the truth, it's double-plus-good fertilizer, too!
I only hope that, if this starts spreading, they don't use it as yet another maw to be stuffed with food crops. Algae ftw!
And some people have already figured out how to make methane from atmospheric CO2 and water, using heat and clever catalysts ... and some have even figured out how to turn that methane into petrol, apparently...
Imagine that. A few decades from now. You fill up your gas-guzzling monstrosity, torn on the AC or crank up the heating with the windows open, and you get to feel good about yourself. The more of that energy you use, the more CO2 they take out of the atmosphere without putting it back, and the more fertilizer is made, for cheaper food and all. Wasting energy - the environmentalist's and social-activist's duty!
