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]hydrogen and the carbon exchange market
Hydrogen is important, but not for the reasons they tell you. A hydrogen fuel network will burn clean in your car, but you still have to burn coal in Utah to get electricity to make the hydrogen by splitting water molecules. It's just a "not in my backyard" solution, at least how they think of it.We support the carbon exchange market to develop atmospheric carbon extraction methods in a free market, but an even exchange does not solve the problem. Governments are going to have to buy carbon credits off the market to reduce the carbon that we've already put into the atmosphere in our 200 years of industrial progress.
In order to do that, the most likely extraction method will be the carbonate ion, CO3. Limestone, baking soda, etc. depending on what other chemical you put into the salt. But that requires an extra oxygen atom from the atmosphere. We do not want to remove all the oxygen from the atmosphere.
If we create hydrogen and oxygen with electrolysis, but then burn all the hydrogen (which consumes oxygen and creates water again), the net balance of oxygen is unchanged. We will need to let a lot of hydrogen go free to create an oxygen surplus which can then be used to extract carbon as carbonate. The excess hydrogen will float to the top of the atmosphere... any problems there?
Anyway, the point is, the global chemical cycles need to be balanced, and that's a lot more complicated than they're telling us on T.V.
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