29 September 2010

Greenhouse Gases Pumped Into GreenHouses


Question: What is greener than a greenhouse?
Answer: A green house that takes in CO2 from a local factory to then turn it, naturally, into O2.
Until recently, greenhouse's would burn natural gas for the sole purpose of generating CO to feed its growing plants.
But today its being piped from nearby refineries.
"It's time we stopped thinking of CO2 solely as a pollutant and viewed it as a valuable resource," says Gabriele Centi, a chemist at the University of Messina, Italy.
There is certainly no shortage of CO2 to be captured and used. Around 27 billion tones are released each year through human activity. Imagine next to every smoking factory, a greenhouse that is just as large; producing just as much. NewScientist