Diamonds could be made from C02 emissions

[Anonymous]

Imagine governments lowering taxes, fuel and electricity costs for working people because of C02 missions instead of forcing them into  poverty.

Conjuring gemstones from thin air sounds like one of the alchemist's more ambitious projects. But that is what a team of chemists from China is claiming to have achieved by making small diamonds from carbon dioxide.



"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/">https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn ... house-gas/">https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3969-diamonds-conjured-from-greenhouse-gas/

[Anonymous]

Imagine governments lowering taxes, fuel and electricity costs for working people because of C02 missions instead of forcing them into  poverty.

Conjuring gemstones from thin air sounds like one of the alchemist's more ambitious projects. But that is what a team of chemists from China is claiming to have achieved by making small diamonds from carbon dioxide.



"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/">https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn ... house-gas/">https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3969-diamonds-conjured-from-greenhouse-gas/

The West will double down on stupid when it comes to C02.

[Anonymous]

Imagine governments lowering taxes, fuel and electricity costs for working people because of C02 missions instead of forcing them into  poverty.

Conjuring gemstones from thin air sounds like one of the alchemist's more ambitious projects. But that is what a team of chemists from China is claiming to have achieved by making small diamonds from carbon dioxide.



"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/">https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn ... house-gas/">https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn3969-diamonds-conjured-from-greenhouse-gas/

I like this much better than our provincial carbon tax.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Bricktop]

Call me when they turn cow farts into daffodils.

[Anonymous]

Call me when they turn cow farts into daffodils.

Would you settle for a semiconductor. ac_toofunny

[Bricktop]

Indeed I would!!!

[Anonymous]

Indeed I would!!!

So, would I.

[Bricktop]

Well, get on it.



You're Chinese!!

[Anonymous]

Indeed I would!!!

Less painful than putting a price on carbon.

[Anonymous]

Indeed I would!!!

Less painful than putting a price on carbon.

Definitely.

[Anonymous]

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.

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

[Anonymous]

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.

 

[Anonymous]

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.

It's an irrational approach.