summary - Researchers have incorporated molecules of porphyrin CO2 catalysts into the sponge-like crystals of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) to create a molecular system that not only absorbs carbon dioxide, but also selectively reduces it to CO, a primary building block for a wide range of chemical products.
Friday, August 28, 2015
CO2 Products
Science Daily: Soaking up carbon dioxide and turning it into valuable products - Researchers double down on a good thing by incorporating catalysts into crystalline sponges
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Here is the future of mankind if there is enough time. These kinds of exciting discoveries are the result of a growing awareness that we are now indeed in a race against time. Nature isn't going to wait around for us to figure out how to capture and re-purpose the CO2. We need these processes now and we need them to be deployed ASAP in massive ways to start to lower the no. of atmospheric carbon, in particular CO2. Methane is another GHG that needs to be dealt with as well and might be even more of a threat in the short term. It's good to see that the scientific community and the engineering community are busy at work on these issues and related problems. Awareness, at the level of human power is also growing and the faster the $$ is put in place to research, create and deploy these technologies the better.
This is all new stuff to me. It sounds compelling but I can't see how it saves the day for us. I think we are in for a lot of global problems from extreme weather, to environmental losses of all kinds, to human migrations and untold deaths. What will happen is that in the midst of that people will take it seriously and get busy. I am not an optimist on this stuff, what out there historically speaking would give us a model that says yeah this is how humanity took care of something of this size and importance. Not anything.
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