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Could we use buckyballs to remove atmospheric carbon dioxide?
I had this idea that we could throw lighter-than-air buckyballs into
the atmosphere (they have buoyancy due to their shape), they
bind to multiple CO2 molecules, get heavier than air and fall to
the ground.
Is this possible? I'm
not a chemist
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Thinking the simplest implementation is not the best, in
this case. |
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Consider an internal combuckyon engine. Hot expansion,
cool contraction Miller cycle, maybe. A cool buckyball dust
is entrained with atmospheric or exhaust air and traps CO2,
then the dusted-up air vents into a warming chamber where
CO2-rich buckyballs expand from ambient heat and release
their CO2 to be flushed by (not an expert, forgive me) a
polycarbonate vapor adsorption matrix. |
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The buckyballs thus dissociated, dried as it were, of CO2
are then cycled again to the cool chamber to engage more
CO2. |
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Buckminsterfullerene doesn't bond with anything, it's a
completely closed molecule. It's sometimes considered as
storage material because other molecules can be contained
within it, but they won't attach to it's surface. |
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As [A1] implies, when it bonds with anything, it does so by
breaking the intact molecule. |
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Also, while buckyballs can be generic, it usually implies
C60. You need to get up to very large fullerenes before
they're lighter than air. |
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