Imagine governments lowering taxes, fuel and electricity costs for working people because of C02 missions instead of forcing them into poverty.
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"We are changing a waste gas into gems," claims Qianwang Chen, head of the team producing the diamonds at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, Anhui province.
The team claims its method could be cheaper and more efficient than some existing methods of synthesising diamonds, which require pressures of up five million atmospheres and temperatures that reach 1400 °C.
Chen and his colleagues make their diamonds by reacting CO2 with metallic sodium in a pressurised oven at only 440 °C and 800 atmospheres. "This is the lowest temperature reported so far for diamond synthesis," he says. After 12 hours, the grains of diamond can be separated from the sodium carbonate, graphite and unreacted CO2 that remain.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3969-diamonds-conjured-from-greenhouse-gas/
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"We are changing a waste gas into gems," claims Qianwang Chen, head of the team producing the diamonds at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, Anhui province.
The team claims its method could be cheaper and more efficient than some existing methods of synthesising diamonds, which require pressures of up five million atmospheres and temperatures that reach 1400 °C.
Chen and his colleagues make their diamonds by reacting CO2 with metallic sodium in a pressurised oven at only 440 °C and 800 atmospheres. "This is the lowest temperature reported so far for diamond synthesis," he says. After 12 hours, the grains of diamond can be separated from the sodium carbonate, graphite and unreacted CO2 that remain.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3969-diamonds-conjured-from-greenhouse-gas/
The West will double down on stupid when it comes to C02.
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"We are changing a waste gas into gems," claims Qianwang Chen, head of the team producing the diamonds at the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei, Anhui province.
The team claims its method could be cheaper and more efficient than some existing methods of synthesising diamonds, which require pressures of up five million atmospheres and temperatures that reach 1400 °C.
Chen and his colleagues make their diamonds by reacting CO2 with metallic sodium in a pressurised oven at only 440 °C and 800 atmospheres. "This is the lowest temperature reported so far for diamond synthesis," he says. After 12 hours, the grains of diamond can be separated from the sodium carbonate, graphite and unreacted CO2 that remain.
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3969-diamonds-conjured-from-greenhouse-gas/
I like this much better than our provincial carbon tax.
Carbon dioxide has many industrial applications. Plus it is used for enhanced recovery of oil to chemical and pharmaceutical applications to electronics. Use the shit, don't tax it.
Call me when they turn cow farts into daffodils.
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Would you settle for a semiconductor. ac_toofunny
Indeed I would!!!
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So, would I.
Well, get on it.
You're Chinese!!
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Less painful than putting a price on carbon.
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Less painful than putting a price on carbon.
Definitely.
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We could be capturing C02 and creating jobs and providing revenue for schools and hospitals. Instead we take money away from both by taxing it. :crazy:
The anti fossil fuel crowd has completely shut down science and the marketplace working hand in hand to find a solution to what to do with greenhouse gases.
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It's an irrational approach.
I've often thought *IF* there is global warming that at some point a solution might come along other than taxes and sacrifice.
But the left doesn't want a solution to global warming, they want to use the issue to virtue signal and tell others what to do.
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But the left doesn't want a solution to global warming, they want to use the issue to virtue signal and tell others what to do.
The earth has warmed a bit and man has contributed to it, that is true. But, it's not outside historic norms and I don't mean just the last twelve decades or so.
There are so many ways man could reduce C02 emissions that don't require reducing the living standards of the middle class in Western countries, but alarmists won't hear of it. One of the ways I would reduce emissions is by offering incentives. Offer tax breaks to companies to reduce their carbon footprint and they will spend eighty per cent of it to take advantage of the other twenty. This doesn't kneecap exports either like an insane carbon tax does. So many common sense solutions that alarmists don't want you to know about.