Scientists create game-changing device that can turn air pollution into salt within minutes: 'A reaction that the planet has been running for billions of years'
The scientists realized that while seawater naturally absorbs one-third of the carbon dioxide created in the atmosphere, it increases the acidity of the seawater, which leads to the dissolution of calcium carbonate. This mineral makes up everything from coral skeletons to shells and is found throughout the sea bed.
Calcium carbonate reacts with the carbon dioxide as it dissolves, trapping it in bicarbonate salts, which can store it for millennia.
"This is a reaction that the planet has been running for billions of years," Jess Adkins, a chemical oceanographer from Caltech, told CNN. "If we can just speed it up, we have a shot at a safe and permanent way of storing CO2."
The new reactor would funnel all emissions from the ship's engine into a chamber full of water and calcium carbonate, collect the new salinated water, and dump it into the ocean. Per Adkins, doing so would not impact the chemical makeup of the sea, CNN reports. He also said that each reactor could handle approximately half of a ship's carbon emissions.
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Can We Reverse the Process….?
To Do What Yo?
To Make Fresh Wata!!