New Plastic to Cut CO2 Emissions and Purify Water

Roland Piquepaille writes "Researchers have lots of imagination. After developing plastic as solid as steel, other scientists from in Australia, Korea and in the U.S. have created a plastic which could cut CO2 emissions and purify water. Their new material mimics pores found in plants and is exceptionally efficient. As said one of the lead researchers, 'it can separate carbon dioxide from natural gas a few hundred times faster than current plastic membranes and its performance is four times better in terms of purity of the separated gas.' Now it remains to be seen if commercial companies are interested, either for water desalination or for natural gas processing plants."

Obligatory 'Graduate' Quote

[porkrind]

"Plastics, son, plastics."

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Lead scientists?

[youthoftoday]

Surely that's a highly toxic metal (at least its compounds are)? Does that cancel out the good this will do?

Re:So it can cut CO2 and purify water..

[glittalogik]

Linux is already pure ;)

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[damn_registrars]

offtopic or not, Charlie Brown should NEVER be modded down!

That's just too far off topic for me to agree with you this time.

Though I will also say

In soviet Russia, Charlie Brown down moderates YOU

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[MyLongNickName]

No. The question is "Will it Blend"?