Christian Democrats in the United States
Global Issues - Global WarmingThe GOP strategy of burying heads in the sand obviously isn't working and alienates the United States from the rest of the world. We believe Al Gore states the problem well, but proposes no meaningful solution. Even if we switched to 100% renewable energy right now, even if we stopped using fire altogether, the global carbon cycle would still be charged with hundreds of billions of tons more than it has ever seen, and the arctic tundra is about to melt and rot, increasing that far more. We must direct immense research effort now to develop energy-efficient means of extracting carbon from the atmosphere without creating a carbonate oxygen sink. This is the only feasible way to reverse the immediate crisis of global warming.
Subscribe to Posts [Atom]controlling the oxygen sink
If the amount of hydrogen in the top layer of the atmosphere were increased by creating oxygen from water for the carbon sink, it would either be blown away by solar wind or concentrations of it would periodically combust in natural electrical activity, creating a high-altitude source of water. If it did create high-altitude rain, I guess that would be cool, but we're back to the problem of not having enough oxygen because we need a carbon sink. Hmm, if the concentrations of hydrogen let go were high enough up there, maybe it would light all the nitrogen in the sky on fire when it finally blew up. That doesn't sound good.How much energy does it take to turn CO2 + 2 H2O => CH4 + 2 O2 ? Maybe there is an efficient micro-electrical or bio-photosynthetic method to create methane from CO2. This is the simplest renewable fuel, but when any renewable fuel is burned again, the net balance of carbon is unchanged.
So there is still the problem of how to bring the current level of carbon out of the atmosphere without creating a carbonate oxygen sink.
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