The Story of the Solar Atmospheric CO2 Cleaner

Inventors are crackpots. I recognize that removing CO2 from the ambiance is an intractable job and I could be dead wrong. But, planetary clime alteration looks to have got an exponential function nature and is likely accelerating much faster then commonly assumed. Person necessitates to come up up with something. I had to give it a shot.

I began with basic designing criteria. First, you can't utilize fossil combustible to powerfulness a machine designed to take CO2 from the atmosphere. It doesn't do any sense. Well no more than sense then, shooting yourself in the ft then trying to walk home. Combusting dodo combustible sets CO2 into the atmosphere. Nuclear energy is dirty, centralized, complicated, and scary. That is pretty much it, by default you acquire to solar energy pretty quick. It is the lone beginning of energy that tin be sufficiently concentrated and focused, is benign to the environment and bes everywhere on earth. It do sense.

CO2 is a tough, nearly inert, molecule focusing energy into a space and warming it up adequate to interrupt the molecular chemical bonds necessitates tons of temperature, much more than then is practical to bring forth with a solar concentrator.

I started thinking about frequency. Everything vibrates. I wondered if you could microwave a CO2 molecule and flop it up. It turns out you can but, you necessitate precisely the right frequence of quiver so the molecule will absorb energy. This frequence is in the terahertz range. Terahertz radiation is difficult to make. I got lucky. I establish a recently developed engineering that bends heat, thermic energy, into terahertz radiation. It utilizes a photonic crystal. The door of possibility swung open.

Now, if I could utilize concentrated solar energy, to supply the heat, to drive a photonic crystal producing the frequence and powerfulness required, to interrupt CO2 covalent bonds? I reasoned I might have got something. Doesn't sound too difficult! Make a field of radiation, confine it in a cavity; draw air through the cavity. The CO2 absorbs the energy and the molecules bust, a high-tech microwave. You acquire C monoxide and oxygen.

Bam! I ran smack into the Second Law of Thermodynamics. You never acquire as much energy out of a system as you set in. In the lawsuit of a thermally powerfulness photonic crystal, if you set one hundred units of measurement of heat energy energy in you acquire one unit of measurement of radiation out. I was crushed by the immutable laws of physics. I was beat, finish. Months of work and the lone solace was I had given it everything I had. Maybe, removing CO2 from the ambiance was an intractable job without a solution? I hung it up.

But, I could not acquire bury the possibilities. Everyday the news about clime alteration just kept getting worse. It was afternoon when it dawned on me. Iodine didn't necessitate all that much energy. If the air and the radiation move through the innovation at a changeless charge per unit I only necessitate adequate energy to interrupt the CO2 molecules in the radiation field at any given time. I did the mathematics and the job looked solvable after all air only incorporates .03% CO2. I was back in the hunt.

So, if I can interrupt CO2 molecules up into C monoxide and oxygen. What make I make with them? The O is not a problem. Carbon monoxide, on the other hand, is poison, but also highly reactive, particularly with metal, Fe for example. Mix the two and you acquire metallic element carbonyl. It turns out metallic element carbonyl is used to do all sorts of stuff, you could even fire it. It is a valuable by-product.

So, what I ended up with is an innovation that tin sit down in anybody's backyard, anywhere, crop CO2 from the ambiance to decelerate planetary heating and bring forth a merchandise that you can sell by the gramme or liter. It should be deserving something?

Let me run through the necessities 1 more clip so, you can really check up on it out:

It is known that molecules absorb energy at alone frequencies.

It is also known that organic structures of substance resonating at the same frequence transportation energy to the exclusion of surrounding matter.

Therefore, CO2 molecules in the ambiance will absorb energy from a specifically tuned and sufficiently powered field of radiation, as they go through through it, to the exclusion of other molecules comprising air.

The energy absorbed bring forths molecular excitement sufficient to disassociate covalent chemical bonds resulting in new molecular fragments, C monoxide and oxygen.

The innovation plant on these principles, using photonic crystals driven by solar energy to bring forth the needed powerfulness and frequency. It bring forths a metallic element carbonyl by-product that could be used as an option combustible source.

That is pretty much the narrative of what we are working on. How we are working is a development story. It's a planetary collaboration, grassroots, existent people we can make it faster then any government, unfastened design, practical laboratory sort of story. We can utilize all the aid we can get. We believe clime alteration is an emergency. We believe anyone, who is willing to pick up a pail and acquire on the fire line makes award to themselves and the human race.

When was the last clip person gave you a opportunity to salvage the future?