Imagine a machine that can capture carbon from emissions and turn it into a building material. That will be the end of atmospheric pollution and the beginning of a rave new world where we can breathe free. As Glen Beck, popular American radio show host, says, you don’t have to give up your car and your air conditioning. He adds that we may even be able to go back to “pre-industrial carbon levels.”
But he also tells us that environmentalists are opposed to the carbon scrubber. They want us to stop using fossil fuels in the first place, something which does not seem possible in the present scenario. And what about the fuel used to run these carbon scrubbers? That will lead to carbon emissions too. Why not grow more trees? They are nature’s carbon scrubbers and they’re free.
Scientists have been battling to reverse the devastating effects of climate change by inventing ways to trap carbon dioxide underground. However, the safety of such a method is questionable.
Gizmag reports an interesting and promising attempt at carbon capture in its April 2011