Oxygen is NOT FLAMMABLE!!! Oxygen is a reactant in a combustion reaction- which means it just gets attatched to whatever is "burning" and the whole process put out a lot of heat. Therefore, oxygen is not a fuel, but it is needed for any fuel to burn.
All i can imagine happening with this is carbon being taken out of CO2, O2 being put back in the atmosphere, and the carbon being put into some kind of carbohydrate or alcohol or some other carbon based fuel and burned again- theoretically producing the exact same amount of CO2 taken out of the atmosphere. This in itself has absolutely no footprint, but when you take into the account the energy needed to do this, its alot bigger.
Fuel cells, solar, electric, wind, and wave power. You dont need anything else.
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Oxygen is NOT FLAMMABLE!!! Oxygen is a reactant in a combustion reaction- which means it just gets attatched to whatever is "burning" and the whole process put out a lot of heat. Therefore, oxygen is not a fuel, but it is needed for any fuel to burn.
All i can imagine happening with this is carbon being taken out of CO2, O2 being put back in the atmosphere, and the carbon being put into some kind of carbohydrate or alcohol or some other carbon based fuel and burned again- theoretically producing the exact same amount of CO2 taken out of the atmosphere. This in itself has absolutely no footprint, but when you take into the account the energy needed to do this, its alot bigger.
Fuel cells, solar, electric, wind, and wave power. You dont need anything else.