Baking soda slow down to global warming
Green living is one way to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. Scrubbing carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and capture and bury methods are other ways being researched by innovative engineers as potential means to reducing greenhouse gases. Skyonic CEO Joe David Jones goes one step further.Jones has devised a way to make baking soda out of carbon dioxide emissions with SkyMine, a process that converts 90 percent of carbon dioxide from smoke stacks into baking soda. The energy to make this conversion uses waste heat, making it an interesting green operation.
In addition, SkyMine removes 97 percent of heavy metals, sulfur and nitrogen compounds, making the baking soda cleaner than food grade baking soda.
In 2004, coal accounted for 39 percent of carbon dioxide and is expected to pass oil by 2010, according to the US Energy Information Agency. To learn more about a chemical engineer and an idea inspired by a Discovery Channel television show, read Can baking soda curb global warming.
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12-30-2007 @ 10:39PM
Greg Galaxy said...
Get your head out of the sand and look at the facts. Global warming is pseudo religion. The sky is not falling. You are being manipulated using fear. Don't be a useful idiot
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12-30-2007 @ 11:36PM
arakere_ramesh said...
I think this is a genius idea
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12-31-2007 @ 12:29AM
AmericanFear said...
Demonizing global warming as a religion is going too far.
Sure there are global warming fanatics but this idea is good for humanity. I mean, if you can convert waste material that would otherwise be useless to something that we CAN use then why not?
Greenhouse gases, making crack cleaner for all of us!
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12-31-2007 @ 11:24AM
Reasonableman said...
I myself am not convinced that global warming exists, but even if it doesn't, something that takes an unused waste product and turns it into a usefull, profitable consumer good is fine by me. It's just that last bit that bugs me: is this a profitable process? If the materials that go into the creation of the baking soda are more expensive than the end result, this idea will never go anywhere.
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12-31-2007 @ 1:02PM
Ferretman said...
Leaving aside the obvious psuedo-science that passes for "consensus" with the Global Warmers, this is a Neat Idea (tm). Creating a useful product with what would otherwise be waste heat is a great solution, and if it helps reduce CO2 emissions a bit so much the better.
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