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http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/11/29/climate.change.soda/index.html

Let me get this straight; they have a device that can turn excess carbon dioxide into one of the most useful and versatile household products there is?

What a bunch of smartasses. :p

Sorry, Lunatic. Looks like no Mud World for you.

Sorry, Lunatic. Looks like no Mud World for you.

:eek:

:(

:eek:

:(

It's what you get for being a Hispanic Neo-Nazi.

where are they going to get all the sodium hydroxide needed from? (they make the baking soda by pumping CO2 trough a sodium hydroxide solution at the right temperature). Otherwise it looks pretty good.

:eek:

:(

Nah, at that much heat, it's possible that we may see a Venus class greenhouse effect instead. Although it's kind of doubtful that there's that much unmelted ice above sea level to make a mud world in either case.

Short of a couple billion tons of ice asteroids.

Nah, at that much heat, it's possible that we may see a Venus class greenhouse effect instead. Although it's kind of doubtful that there's that much unmelted ice above sea level to make a mud world in either case.

Short of a couple billion tons of ice asteroids.

I thought if I could get enough soil tillers going along the coast, working inward and bulldozers working on the bumpier parts...

I thought if I could get enough soil tillers going along the coast, working inward and bulldozers working on the bumpier parts...

A flooding on that worldwide scale would see the coastal areas under several dozen, if not hundreds, of feet of water, and turn the rest of the medium lands into wet plains like a rice paddy field. Not very muddy, just silty.

Okay, here is what throws me with these stories: You come across things like this ever so often, awesome ideas, apparently working, few or no drawbacks, eminently sensible and even economically beneficial - and then you never hear from them again.

What happened?

A few years ago I saw a documentary on TV about this guy who had found a very simple way to use shredded old tires to clean up maritime oil spills - the tires didn't end up in the landfill, the oil didn't go on to kill sea life and coat beaches, and the resulting mush of oil and tires was to be used in some ingenious i-don't-remember-what.

Never heard of it again.

There must be hundreds or thousands of patents out there that just haven't been produced yet because companies and people are stupid and shortsighted. Gah.

A flooding on that worldwide scale would see the coastal areas under several dozen, if not hundreds, of feet of water, and turn the rest of the medium lands into wet plains like a rice paddy field. Not very muddy, just silty.

That's why we need to churn it. *nod*

That's why we need to churn it. *nod*

Preferably by throwing a bunch of scantily clad women into the mix and starting a catfight.:D

Preferably by throwing a bunch of scantily clad women into the mix and starting a catfight.:D

http://wavcentral.com/sounds/movies/modern_problems/ccyes.mp3

:D

Okay, here is what throws me with these stories: You come across things like this ever so often, awesome ideas, apparently working, few or no drawbacks, eminently sensible and even economically beneficial - and then you never hear from them again.

What happened?

A few years ago I saw a documentary on TV about this guy who had found a very simple way to use shredded old tires to clean up maritime oil spills - the tires didn't end up in the landfill, the oil didn't go on to kill sea life and coat beaches, and the resulting mush of oil and tires was to be used in some ingenious i-don't-remember-what.

Never heard of it again.

There must be hundreds or thousands of patents out there that just haven't been produced yet because companies and people are stupid and shortsighted. Gah.

Speaking of PopSci, that guy with the plasma-ma-bob that ate anything, pissed energy and pooed obsidian?

http://www.popsci.com/popsci/science/873aae7bf86c0110vgnvcm1000004eecbccdrcrd.html