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  • The Environment

    Baking Soda: The Cure for Global Warming?

    By Posted on 2.26.2008 10 Comments

    Shelterbakingsoda_2 In recent months, PopSci has covered various scientists' plans to curb global warming through carbon sequestration, mainly by feeding it to algae to make biofuel, or burying it underground.

    Today, a company called Skyonic announced a novel new system, Skymine, which uses the carbon dioxide emitted from smokestacks to make baking soda. According to Skyonic CEO Joe David Jones, the system will be powered by waste heat from factories, and will produce food-grade baking soda.

    6.14.2008 at 09:23am - Comment by lkurtz2

    Seems to me that fossil fuel carbon sequestering in baking soda has less problems to it than putting carbon in bags at the bottom of the ocean that would eventually deteriorate or compressing it into mine shafts/salt domes. But I've yet to see a Pop-Sci article on agrichar (creating charcoal from biomass, that not only enhances soil fertility but produces fuel as a byproduct. The net affect is enhancing land, sequestering carbon , and producing a green alternative fuel). Perhaps its because most of the research appear to be international and not appearing on most AP feeds. In any case I'd like to see a more detailed description of how agrichar is produced and how "carbon" credits" would help agriculture adopt it . I only ran on to this topic indirectly on a Google search this morning.

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