How about some good news

[Charlie]

First the GOOD news .Global warming can be reversed to pre industrial reverlution temperatures,if required.
Second the BAD news.It will require vast ammounts of Limestone to do it.Burn the Limestone to Quick Lime and add to sea water.
The sea will then be more alkali and be able to soak up all the excess Co2 ,stop adding Quick Lime when you reach the right number.
Now before all the "experts" pile in and say you have to produce Co2 to make Quick Lime,this has been evaluated in great detail.
It would appear that the sea will take up much more Co2 than is produced in the making of Quick Lime.This would work apparently.
Now comes the interesting bit.How would parliment justify the green taxes which they can not do without?
Oh and you would be able to go sledging in winter again in GB,what a bonus !!!!!!!!!!
Watch this space.

research paper please?

I just want to challenge this sort of thing before it becomes recieved wisdom "yeah some man in the pub told me that we can stop global warming..."

the oceans and atmosphere are both complex systems, and carbon fixation within the oceans is partly a biological process.

 

[braveduck]

I never remember anything I heard in the pub the morning after!!!
Try www.cquestrate.com before you flame me again.
Shell are funding a study into this because they think it could work also.

 

[Charlie]

Try www.cquestrate.com before you flame me again.

No flames intended, I just think you have been misinformed.

And the information on that website is far from persuasive.

 

[Slug]

"yeah some man in the pub told me that we can stop global warming..."

You should trust His word Charlie, I've been dealing with Him or years, I buy all My drugs, guns, and Sex Slaves off of Him, and He'll always fence anything I can lift, and for a good price.









Is this an "open" Forum..........................oops. :spank:

 

[wormster]

Well the Darkplaces Big Bash 2008 went without anybody getting seriously hurt

 

[whitelackington]

No hosepipe ban this year

 

[anfieldman]

Good news? It's stopped raining.

 

[anfieldman]

Oh. It's started again.

 

[whitelackington]

Stainsby's going quite well 

 

[whitelackington]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/south_yorkshire/7607205.stm
A new generation of miners are being trained to work in a South Yorkshire pit two decades after most of the UK industry went into decline.

Hatfield Colliery, near Doncaster, which closed in 1994 when the coal industry was privatised, is taking on apprentices to work in the pit.

Rising prices of coal and other forms of energy on world markets have made mining a realistic prospect again.

 

[whitelackington]

We opened a window onto a stunning grotto in our dig yesterday

 

[whitelackington]

This is potentially
very, very good news
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7668154.stm

Shark blood 'offers cancer hope'
"Sharks have immune systems similar to humans, but their antibodies - the molecules which actually fight disease - are exceptionally resilient.

Researchers believe this quality could be harnessed to help slow the spread of diseases such as cancer.

Potentially, it could lead to a new generation of drug treatments.

The Australian team found that shark antibodies can withstand high temperatures as well as extremely acidic or alkaline conditions.



This means they would potentially be able to survive in the harsh environment of the human gut, which is crucial to the development of a cancer-fighting pill. "

 

[whitelackington]

This also is potentially very good news
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/04/biofuels-energy

A fungus
Gliocladium roseum
that can convert cellulose directly into diesel

 

[Peter Burgess]

This also is potentially very good news
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/nov/04/biofuels-energy

A fungus
Gliocladium roseum
that can convert cellulose directly into diesel

I have sometimes wondered how long it will be before we start mining old landfill sites for raw materials. All that junk mail and soggy copies of The Sun and Daily Bigot we could turn into fuel!

 

[Les W]

Perhaps we should all be investing in shares* in landfill sites - the new klondike?
We couldn't do worse than had they been invested elsewhere and I'm certain that at some point in the future they will become an important resource for raw materials and energy. 

*The value of shares can go down as well as up  :-\

 

[Les W]

All that junk mail and soggy copies of The Sun and Daily Bigot we could turn into fuel!

I knew there had to be a reason that the tabloid press exist, I suppose if you look hard enough you can find good in everything, even the tabloid press

 

[j4nny]

good news: Lewis Hamilton winning - and also coming 5th, who'd a thought it - a Brit praying for rain. 

 

[cap n chris]

Same old, same old:

 

[whitelackington]

Cheap tat,
very cheap at the mo in Woolies
I bought some yesterday

 

[Downer]

Yes, the lime cycle just speeds up the familar reaction, calcium carbonate plus CO2 = calcium bicarbonate, so it can work.

And, of course, do the roasting with nuclear, not fossil fuel.

Also, digging up old rubbish makes excellent sense. In a few decades there will be miniature digging robots and they'll be smart enough to sort the rubbish out as they go. It's stupid everyone doing it now by hand - why don't we give the next generation any credit for being able to invent anything?

And while we're on the subject, who cares about damaging formations? One more generation and machines will rebuild everything perfectly atom by atom. Maybe even duplicate it all above ground in museums... hmm, that could suck, they might rebuild me.