Comment Liquid Carbon? (Score 1) 203
I don't think the article mentions "Liquid Carbon Dioxide". That would take great pressure and extremely low temperature to pull off. I think it says "stored in a liquefied state" or something of the sort. I propose they would do this in such a fashion:
NaOH + CO2 --> NaHCO3
The reaction would have to take place in aqueous solution, or the ions would crash out. The product is Sodium Bicarbonate, the main ingredient in carbonated beverages. Umm...so I think that the inventors may be leaning more toward soda water, and less toward liquid dry ice. I am not saying this is a sane answer to the problem of automobiles, fuel, sprawl, whatever. I figure no one is insane enough to propose that we sit on a "dry ice bomb" as someone else so eloquently put it.
Still, they are going to have to use a pretty strong base to solubilize carbon dioxide. What else could they use? Anhydrous Ammonia? Yeah, sounds real pretty.
NaOH + CO2 --> NaHCO3
The reaction would have to take place in aqueous solution, or the ions would crash out. The product is Sodium Bicarbonate, the main ingredient in carbonated beverages. Umm...so I think that the inventors may be leaning more toward soda water, and less toward liquid dry ice. I am not saying this is a sane answer to the problem of automobiles, fuel, sprawl, whatever. I figure no one is insane enough to propose that we sit on a "dry ice bomb" as someone else so eloquently put it.
Still, they are going to have to use a pretty strong base to solubilize carbon dioxide. What else could they use? Anhydrous Ammonia? Yeah, sounds real pretty.
