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Does Yahoo know about Synthetic trees? Global Warming?

Apparently, some scientist guy has come with a way to fight global warming. For Real. A scientist has invented an artificial tree designed to do the job of plants.

But the synthetic tree proposed by Dr Klaus Lackner proposes does not much resemble the leafy variety.

“It looks like a goal post with Venetian blinds,” said the Columbia University physicist, referring to his sketch at the annual AAAS meeting in Denver, Colorado.

But the synthetic tree would do the job of a real tree, he said. It would draw carbon dioxide out of the air, as plants do during photosynthesis, but retain the carbon and not release oxygen.

If done to scale, according to Dr Lackner, synthetic trees could help clean up an atmosphere grown heavy with carbon dioxide, the most abundant gas produced by humans and implicated in climate warming.

He predicts that one synthetic tree could remove 90,000 tonnes of CO2 in a year – the emissions equivalent of 15,000 cars.

“You can be a thousand times better than a living tree,” he said.

Carbon sinks

For now, the synthetic tree is still a paper idea. But Dr Lackner is serious about developing a working model. His efforts suggest the wide net of ideas cast by scientists as they face the challenge of mitigating climate change.

Dr Lackner believes that carbon sequestration technology must be part of the long-term solution. Global reliance on fossil fuels will not decrease any time soon, he said, and developing countries cannot be expected to wait until alternatives are available.

The technology calls for two things – seizing carbon and then storing it. Direct capture of CO2, from power plants for example, is the simplest, according to Dr Lackner. But this doesn’t work for all polluters. A car can’t capture and store its carbon dioxide on-board; the storage tank would be too large.

“It’s simply a question of weight,” he said, “for every 14 grams of gasoline you use, you are going to have 44 grams of CO2.”

The alternative is to capture emissions from the wind. In this case, a synthetic tree would act like a filter. An absorbent coating, such as limewater, on its slats or “leaves” would seize carbon dioxide and retain the carbon.

Dr Lackner predicts that the biggest expense would be in recycling the absorber material.

“We have to keep the absorbent surfaces refreshed because they will very rapidly fill up with carbon dioxide,” he said. If an alkaline solution such as limewater were used, the resulting coat of limestone would need to be removed.

Dr Lackner is considering other less-alkaline solutions to prevent carbonate precipitation.

“There are a number of engineering issues which need to be worked out,” he said.

Home use

A synthetic tree could be planted anywhere. A small one could sit like a TV on the lawn to balance out the CO2 emitted by one person or family.

But more practically, said Dr Lackner, a device the size of a barn would sit in the open air, near repositories for easy transportation and storage of carbon.

He estimated that 250,000 synthetic trees worldwide would be needed to soak up the 22 billion tons of CO2 produced annually.

But not everyone is rooted to the idea. Massachusetts Institute of Technology engineer Howard Herzog thinks Dr Lackner’s design won’t hold together on the scale he proposes.

He said you would expend more energy in capturing the CO2 – in keeping the slats coated in absorbent and disposing of it – than you’d save.

“Once the solvent captures the CO2, it holds it on tight,” said Dr Herzog, “and it’s going to take a lot of energy to break those bonds.”

He said that much more research is needed on the technology.

“The idea of air capture is seductive and would really be great to have,” said Dr Herzog, “but it’s important to separate out the concept from the technical details.”

‘Early days’

Meanwhile, Dr Lackner is pursuing his idea for carbon storage. While he was at the US Department of Energy‘s Los Alamos National Laboratory, his team worked on a storage method based on a natural chemical process known as rock weathering.

When CO2 binds with magnesium, it creates carbonate rocks which, according to Dr Lackner, retain carbon permanently and safely.

Currently, he said, the process is still too expensive to develop on a large scale.

But Dr Lackner is optimistic that the costs for carbon capture and storage will come down.

“This is still the early days of climate solutions,” he said.

When will we have the resolve to build more Nuclear Power Plants; which emit NO CO2 into the Environment?

“The nuclear option should be retained precisely because it is an important carbon-free source of power.”

“Taking nuclear power off the table as a viable alternative will prevent the global community from achieving long-term gains in the control of carbon dioxide emissions.”

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University

As of 204, France produced 78% of its energy needs from Nuclear Power, while at the same time the United States produces only 20%, while generating 57% of its Electricity from Coal that accounts for 90% of CO2 emissions.

http://nuclearinfo.net/Nuclearpower
http://www.policyalmanac.org/environment/archive/nuclear_energy.shtml
http://www.eia.doe.gov/cneaf/electricity/epm/epm_sum.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuclear_power_in_France
WOW … amazing! Realst1 calls me a Right Wing (extremist) while the next person, BossH, calls me a Socialist!
BossH: Lead-Cooled Fast Reactor (LFR) is a Generation IV Reactor for both electricity and hydrogen production.

Toshiba has applied for a license to build a 4S Sodium-cooled Fast Reactor (Generation IV) in the United States.

http://nuclear.inl.gov/gen4/lfr.shtml

it is true that fish oil can help against manic depression?

http://www.oism.info/it/farmaci/alternative_naturali/olio_di_pesce_contro_depressione_maniacale.htm

The fish oil can help against manic depression.
Effectiveness of Omega 3 oils in dealing with manic depression, schizophrenia, depression, hyperactivity, the LDCs, etc..

Dr. Ann Blake Tracy: In September 1998 the National Institute of Health conducted a seminar on the effectiveness of Omega 3 oils in dealing with manic depression, schizophrenia, depression, hyperactivity, the LDCs, etc.. Now a new study supports those reports. Although the study was addressed only to oil fish, linseed oil is not recommended because it exposes a potential toxicity-toxicity due to polluted waters where the pesci.________________________________________
Scientists believe they have found a surprising new ally in their efforts to understand and treat acute sudden changes of mood of manic-depression fatty acids of fish. A clinical experiment at Harvard University on 44 patients suffering from manic depression, or bipolar, have had positive results with fish oil the experiment was stopped after 4 months and all patients were put into care with 14 capsules daily.
The fish oil is rich in fatty acids omegs-3, a family of polyunsaturated fatty long chain that have been associated with reduced cardiovascular disease and other health benefits. The highest concentrations of omega-3 fatty acids are in the eye and brain, where neurobiologi believe are essential for the proper functioning of cell membranes. If the levels of omega-3 fatty acids are too low, have assumed, then the streets are essential chemical sopraffatte may arise and mental disorders.
The study conducted at Harvard was the first significant scientific gaze on the effects of fish and its fatty acids on manic-depression that is estimated to affect between 1 and 2 percent of Americans at some point in life. The disorder produces surges from the levels of energy and mood abnormemente senior maniacalità of acute depression, and is generally treated with drugs other than those prescribed for unipolar depression, the most common form of depression. (It has been estimated that 20 percent of Americans suffer from some form of depression throughout life).
But some researchers believe that omega-3 fatty acids play an equally important role in unipolar depression. Joseph Hibbeln of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, has discovered an amazing correlation between the consumption of fish and depression. The society in which people eat much fish, he discovered, have markedly lower levels of depression compared with the society in which people did not eat much fish. Does his work “suggestive” rather than conclusive.
Stoll said that it unbeaten in fish as a possible cure for manic depression when he reviewed the literature on compounds from the effects similar to traditional drugs such as lithium and Valproato. “Wherever the guardammo were the omega-3,” he said. “We had heard of the omega-3 to medical school, but there was given much attention since then.” While fish oil has long been used as a dietary supplement safe, doctors warn that may oxidize if not is stored properly.

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Help Me TO HELP YOU….WANT TO DO SOMETHING FOR MANKIND….?

hey guys i have some great ideas …..some innovative ideas too….i have some rare ideas in mind which would help my country as well as our beloved earth….like alternative source for producing electricity…a car that runs on a very less amount of energy(without fossil fuel)…..new system for railways that would reduce accidents as well as explosions….and some innovations for fun like a bike with pulleys which can do stunts safely….and more ideas….i have read abt many ideas which are printed in newspapers…..but i dont think they are of that worth…..i think my ideas are more useful and scientific…..
but the problem is that i am not able to explore my talents to the general people or the world…plz guide me or suggest me some platform through which i can show my potential.. like if there is any institute or some media…give me contact info…OR some website or email id…who knows may be my ideas will change the world……plz help me to help you…