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What is your quest? So the last post was scary, both in length and content. But, seriously, haven’t we been hearing this doom and gloom of global warming for a while? How about we reframe this conversation in a more positive light? Let’s discuss what science is truly capable of accomplishing. Let’s transform CO2 from a problem into a commodity waiting to be used. What we would like to do is come up with an efficient way to convert the CO2 in our atmosphere into desirable materials (alcohols, plastics, a pony, what have you). We will need to create a market for CO2. The crucial question is: Can we make this cheap, abundant, atmospheric gas valuable? (Come on, there’s a market for reprocessed cow manure—why not CO2?) We’ll need a) some science b) some policy and c) a way to make the science and the policy play nicely. Granted, these … Continue reading →