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by paul bambury at 07:20PM (EST) on December 5, 2006 | Permanent Link | Cosmos

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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Re: Carbon Futures

by HURRICANE on Wed 31 Jan 2007 08:44 PM EST | Profile | Permanent Link

Before you think about the upside of this nano carbon tube,you had better check out the down side first.They are not so quick to tell you about that side and the harm it can cause to you & your loved ones.They are only there to fill you in on the political side of it.So,might I suggest you delve a little deeper? Do not just take their word for it.Knowledge is reading.It's kind of like the saying goes,think before you speak.And make damn sure,you check it out yourself,because they will tell you anything.They bank on you literally leaving it up to them.NO PUN INTENDED!!!

Re: Re: Carbon Futures

by Chris Gilbey on Thu 01 Feb 2007 05:39 AM EST | Profile | Permanent Link

If Hurricane has any specific information on the danger of nanotubes I would be interested in seeing it. Just as with the rise of genetically modified food and the dangers now revealed it is true that there is often a huge amount of spin, intentional or otherwise, that accompanies some technology. However we need to have specifics before we get paranoid about technologies!

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