This might be the first of a sequence of blogs on possible commercial opportunities arising from global warming.

Most of us agree that global warming is caused, or at least worsened, by atmosperic carbon released by burning coal.

There has been talk of clean coal and carbon sequestration (pumping the carbon dioxide into underground cavities).

Meanwhile, carbon nanotubes have been synthesised and demonstrated to have unique properties, including being the strongest material yet discovered.

Maybe carbon is too abundant on Earth to support a business model based
on harvesting carbon wasted in coal combustion, but consider the
political upside. All this bad carbon being harnessed and solidified
into ultra-strong building material.

Corporations or even nations that take advantage of this opportunity
could turn a crisis created by the overabundance of atmospheric carbon
into an abundance of useful solidified carbon. This could be an
implementation of the Economics of Abundance.

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