GE has a wild plan to ‘vacuum’ air pollution right out of our skies — here’s how the mind-blowing

[rangerrebew]

 
GE has a wild plan to ‘vacuum’ air pollution right out of our skies — here’s how the mind-blowing idea would work
Story by Nick Paschal •
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It’s been decades since General Electric (GE) made vacuums, but now, it’s getting back in the game — only this time, the company will be vacuuming carbon pollution out of the air.

GE announced the successful test of its direct air capture (DAC) prototype and is planning larger-scale demonstrations in 2024. If the company can successfully scale its DAC system, it could be a massive weapon in the fight against our overheating planet.

What is direct air capture?

Direct air capture uses chemical reactions to remove carbon dioxide from the air. When air moves over the chemicals, it selectively traps the carbon, leaving the other parts of the air to pass through.

Once the carbon is successfully sucked out of the air and removed from the chemicals — typically by applying heat — it can be injected deep into the ground in geologic formations, never to be seen again, or used in products like concrete or plastic that will hold on tight to that carbon for a very long time.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/ge-has-a-wild-plan-to-vacuum-air-pollution-right-out-of-our-skies-here-s-how-the-mind-blowing-idea-would-work/ar-AA1ajfPi?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=2883ebfe150144febd7070fb7e89d8bf&ei=14

[Idiot]

GE has a wild plan to ‘vacuum’ air pollution right out of our skies — here’s how the mind-blowing idea would work
Story by Nick Paschal •
23h
 
It’s been decades since General Electric (GE) made vacuums, but now, it’s getting back in the game — only this time, the company will be vacuuming carbon pollution out of the air.

GE announced the successful test of its direct air capture (DAC) prototype and is planning larger-scale demonstrations in 2024. If the company can successfully scale its DAC system, it could be a massive weapon in the fight against our overheating planet.

What is direct air capture?

Direct air capture uses chemical reactions to remove carbon dioxide from the air. When air moves over the chemicals, it selectively traps the carbon, leaving the other parts of the air to pass through.

Once the carbon is successfully sucked out of the air and removed from the chemicals — typically by applying heat — it can be injected deep into the ground in geologic formations, never to be seen again, or used in products like concrete or plastic that will hold on tight to that carbon for a very long time.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/ge-has-a-wild-plan-to-vacuum-air-pollution-right-out-of-our-skies-here-s-how-the-mind-blowing-idea-would-work/ar-AA1ajfPi?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531&cvid=2883ebfe150144febd7070fb7e89d8bf&ei=14

I wonder who's paying for this? 

[roamer_1]

EVERY TREE IN EVERY CITY WILL DIE.

[Hoodat]

I wonder who's paying for this?

And how much CO₂ it will generate?

btw, if you want to lock up carbon, then use as much plastic as possible, and then bury it in a hole.  No specialized geological formations needed.

[libertybele]

It's a wild plan alright. 

Gee, why don't they vacuum all the tornadoes and hurricanes out of the air as well. 

[GtHawk]

Why does this remind me the scheme used in a plot of The Beverly Hillbillies to install huge fans to suck the air pollution over the mountains. Of course the plan was just something con man came up with to bilk Jed and his kin out of their money, just like GE only this time it'll be us playing the part of Jed and his kin.

[Smokin Joe]

EVERY TREE IN EVERY CITY WILL DIE.

Remember when "carbon" was soot?

[roamer_1]

Remember when "carbon" was soot?

It still is around here...

[Weird Tolkienish Figure]

Some Canadian guy had a plan to essentially dump iron powder in the oceans to bloom algae and basically pull co2 from the atmosphere quickly. The Canadian government actually raided his house over it. Strange story at the very least.

[Idiot]

Remember when "carbon" was soot?

An older gentleman in my office building worked at a carbon black facility in waaaay West Texas as a young man.  The way I understood it was they scraped the soot from the burned natural gas up and that was the carbon black.  He said it was an extremely nasty place. 

[The_Reader_David]

Remember when "carbon" was soot?

Yes, and that's actually an interesting point, as all of the climate models either ignore changes to the albedo of ice packs due to soot, or pretend they're due to CO2.  There's a good chance much of the human impact on climate, such as it is, is due to soot.  Of course, getting the ChiComs, Russians, Indians and Poles to pass and enforce analogues of the American Clean Air Act doesn't give Washington, Brussels and London an excuse to seize control of the energy economy like controling greenhouse gasses does, so no one wants to try doing honest climate modeling (such as one can with a coupled chaotic dynamical system with multiple inputs) and revise the models to correctly attribute the effects of soot and urban heat island effects to things other than greenhouse gasses.

[catfish1957]

As someone whos spent their entire working career in the Environmental Field, I will go on record as saying this about the silliest shit I have ever seen.  Issues with scale, media prep, and replacement, and the power needed to operate a device this insipid.

If anything it makes me think about dumping my GE Stock, if they have loons in R & D like ths.