Household Products Could Absorb CO2 Emissions

Inhabitat:

Scientists at GE Global Research found that aminosilicones-a group of materials found in household products like hair conditioners, fabric softeners and plastics-could trap CO2 emissions.

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[rf dude]

01:43 PM on 03/28/2010

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Gives the planet a sunshine fresh smell, too...

[Bartel5]

01:50 AM on 03/28/2010

Grow more plants. Grow algae to convert to fuel.

[paliuli]

04:08 AM on 03/26/2010

Biochar is the superior method of sequestering carbon. Learn about it.

Don't use any of that stuff shown in the photo, and don't buy into the idea that some new chemical from GE will do anything worthwhile.

Use natural products to clean with: soap nuts, baking soda, vinegar, washing soda, borax, avoid anything with synthetic fragrance. Buy pure essential oils steam distilled from flowers if you want a real and truly luxurious perfume. The synthetics are just mimicking them.

[JScott]

01:49 AM on 03/26/2010

But doesn't say anything about all the other nasty stuff that goes up the flue of a coal fired power plant.

[jsarets]

08:04 AM on 03/26/2010

These same kinds of weakly-basic amine absorption media (e.g. MEA, DEA, MDEA) are used to remove hydrogen sulfide from natural gas and petroleum at the refinery level.

Coal is not refined in this way before combustion. Coal plants typically use limestone (calcium carbonate) to precipitate the sulfur dioxide in the flue gas as calcium sulfite, which is then further oxidized to produce gypsum (calcium sulfate) for drywall or for soil calcium supplementation.

In China, the more modern coal plants add limestone directly to the coal so that the gypsum forms during combustion and is separately along with the fly ash by electrostatic precipitation upstream of the flue gas.

Although sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides are acid rain gases, those emissions are substantially reduced in modern coal plants. By far the more problematic byproduct of coal combustion is the fly ash (metal oxides), even though hardly any of it goes up the stack. Fly ash disposal is obviously a major issue highlighted by recent spills and emerging consciousness of localized impacts on the health of humans, livestock, and wildlife.

[Mike Burger]

07:19 PM on 03/25/2010

I'm sorry, but I'm not gonna trust the GE team with this propaganda to push more products

[John Mainstream]

04:13 PM on 03/25/2010

"It's the quicker picker upper."