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Researchers Create Renewable Carbon Dioxide Sponge 206

First time accepted submitter Babu V Bassa writes "Concerned about adding too much carbon dioxide to the atmosphere? Consider a roof top coating on your car with this new material. A multinational team of researchers have developed a renewable sponge like material to capture and store gaseous carbon dioxide. The organic material is made up of gamma-cyclodextrin. Conventional metal-organic frameworks, which also are effective at adsorbing carbon dioxide, are usually prepared from materials derived from crude oil and often incorporate toxic heavy metals and are also non-renewable. The research paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society claims that its synthesis is essentially carbon-neutral and have the demonstrated ability to absorb carbon dioxide from the atmosphere makes them promising materials for carbon fixation."
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Researchers Create Renewable Carbon Dioxide Sponge

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  • by Anonymous Coward on Sunday September 25, 2011 @03:00PM (#37509248)

    You're not imaginative enough then. Here's how you market it: This tree was organically grown in Japanese organic soil and hand watered with Swiss Alp Glacier Water. The wood was hand cut by a single family who eat only organic foods and have been trained for generations in the art of woodworking and yoga.

  • by Greyfox ( 87712 ) on Sunday September 25, 2011 @03:27PM (#37509360) Homepage Journal
    Ooh better yet, require companies to keep huge amounts of paper records indefinitely! Then you don't even have to pay for the landfill! I smell a revamp to the tax code coming!

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