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This Is The Most Efficient Way to Collect CO2 Yet

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  1. Alex C

This looks like an interesting technology, though there clearly are questions this video wasn't designed to answer, such as...

(1) what would be the monetary cost and environmental impact of manufacturing these capture devices?
(2) What type of...

This looks like an interesting technology, though there clearly are questions this video wasn't designed to answer, such as...

(1) what would be the monetary cost and environmental impact of manufacturing these capture devices?
(2) What type of power plants these will be used on? (my gut says coal) and whether their use would discourage society from decreasing its extraction of fossil fuels (which in itself can be very damaging to our environment)?

If you agree that this technology is interesting and potentially impactful if we take it at face value, you might be intersted in reading this peace from Berkeley Labs, which contains a link to where the research paper can be purchased (the abstract is free): http://newscenter.lbl.gov/2016/03/17/carbon-capture-membrane/

Other useful info via wikipedia:
"Polysulfones are a family of thermoplastic polymers. These polymers are known for their toughness and stability at high temperatures. They contain the subunit aryl-SO2-aryl, the defining feature of which is the sulfone group. Polysulfones were introduced in 1965 by Union Carbide. Due to the high cost of raw materials and processing, polysulfones are used in specialty applications and often are a superior replacement for polycarbonates." (source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polysulfone)

"Scientists at CSIRO have developed a simple but effective technique for growing and adding value to an new group of smart materials which could be used in areas such as optical sensing and drug storage and delivery. The researchers have developed a way to control the growth, and provide additional functionality, to a family of smart materials known as metal-organic frameworks, or MOFs. MOFs consist of well-ordered ultra-porous crystals which form multi-dimensional structures with enormous surface areas. One gram of the material can have the surface area of more than three football fields. Their spacious pores provide MOFs with the potential to be used as 'sponges' for storing gases such as hydrogen, carbon dioxide or natural gas. They could also be used as nano-sized sieves to purify gases or liquids, for catalysis, or for the targeted transport of drugs in the body." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal-organic_framework#/media/File:CSIRO_ScienceImage_11637_Scanning_electron_microscope_image_of_the_seed_inside_the_MOF_crystals.jpg via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metal-organic_framework)

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