StoppingClimateChange.com
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About
1. Harvesting Climate Changing CO2 - - -
2. Overview - - -
3. The Scientific Basis - - -
4. The CO2 Harvesting System
Technology - - - 5.
CO2
Disposal Well Technology
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(This website is an unsolicited independent
engineering suggestion by the website author, James P. Holm, P.E., based upon
the following published technical paper: "Ambient weathering of magnesium
oxide for CO2 removal from air", which was produced by, and is the sole
property of:, Noah McQueen, Peter Kelemen, Greg
Dipple, Phil Renforth, & Jennifer Wilcox.)
If too much CO2 in the air is what's going to destroy the world's climates, this
idea has the potential to actually save the world - at a reasonable
price over a reasonable period of time. And, it doesn't take an Einstein to make
it happen.
StoppingClimateChange.com,
or simply 'StoppingClimateChange', is a free and open-source web engineering
design project being
developed by this web site author as an effort to reduce the carbon dioxide
content of the air from it's present 720 parts per million to it's
pre-industrial age level of 680 ppm.
The industrial revolution began in earnest about 1800 - 222 years ago - leaving
billion of tons of excess CO2 remaining in the air causing the Planet
Earth-heating that has brought Climate Change. The Carbon Capture and
Sequestration schemes suggested by others so far to remove this CO2 residue
remove only comparatively small amounts
of the total CO2 exhaust remaining in the air. If billions of tons of CO2
aren't removed from the air soon using process scale-up methods resembling
global agriculture, industrialization, or global war, our goose is cooked - so to speak. The effort appears daunting,
but may be do-able.
This website hopes to take what
appears to be a good CO2 mitigation idea and create a replicable form of it's
implementation that can be inexpensively duplicated as
many times as necessary in as many favorable parts of the world as necessary to quickly end Climate Change.
The basic idea of the cited Technical Paper is the property of others and remains
unaltered.
Saudi Arabia appears to have optimal climate,
terrain, and underground geologies.
Each of the 14 light-colored squares represents a 100 x 100 mile magnesium oxide
CO2 capture
farm (14 squares = 140,000 sq mi total)
Each square reduces
about 10% of the 2030 CO2 Emissions of Planet Earth's combined industrialized
nations.
Overpowering Climate Change:
This means we could both halt 100% of annual Climate Change emissions by fossil
fuel users who don't give a hoot about making more Climate Change damage
while simultaneously reducing the massive historical backlog of CO2
contamination of air
by perhaps 4% annually.
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