Global warming inspires enterprising solutions
The phone-booth-size machine humming away in a Tucson lab may look like a science-fair project on steroids. Its inventors, however, say it’s a potent new weapon in the battle against global warming.
Its task is elegantly direct. The 9-foot-tall device, encased in see-through plastic, scrapes the chief global warming gas — carbon dioxide — right out of the atmosphere. As air wafts through, CO2 sticks to large chemically coated panels while oxygen and other innocuous gases breeze by. The carbon inhaler’s developer, Global Research Technologies, is among hundreds of U.S. companies scouring for ways to reduce the world’s greenhouse gas emissions and cash in on federal requirements anticipated by 2010 to combat global warming.[...]
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