Introduction
Carbon Dioxide plays a major role in global warming. It is the primary greenhouse gas that is emitted by humans on a daily basis. Back in 2012, it is estimated that carbon dioxide accounted for 82% of all the greenhouse gases produced in the United States. Although carbon dioxide is a naturally occurring gas on Earth, it is said that human emissions are responsible for the increase of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere since the industrial revolution (www.epa.gov). Since carbon emissions have increased over the past few years, ways have been developed to limit the carbon dioxide into Earth's atmosphere. Carbon storing is one of the ways that carbon dioxide is limited. Recently, a professor has developed another way for carbon dioxide to be limited, and used in a productive way by combining it lithium nitrate to produce energy. Globalization could potential change in drastic measures if carbon dioxide could be chemically altered into an energy source. Even the possibility to removing carbon emissions from entering the atmosphere would be a miraculous achievement.
Lithium Storage
Carbon dioxide molecules are very stable so it requires a lot of energy to produce carbon based products. Professor Yun Hang Hu, a material scientist at Michigan Technological University, and his research team discovered a way for carbon dioxide and lithium nitride to produce a heat-releasing reaction. Lithium is one of the only stable alkali metal nitrides; at room temperature lithium and nitrogen react together to create this compound. When lithium nitride and carbon dioxide react together it results in amorphous carbon nitride, a semiconductor, and lithium Cyanamid, a precursor to fertilizers (www.gizmag.com).
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...hough carbon dioxide is the most prominent greenhouse gas, ways are being developed and discovered to lower our emissions into Earth’s atmosphere. When joined with lithium nitrate, carbon dioxide has the potential to create energy. Lithium was limited, now deposits of it have been found in Wyoming. Carbon capture and storage is still a common way to handle carbon dioxide that is emitted from fossil fuel plants. It is limiting how much carbon dioxide is able to enter into the atmosphere, but it is still expected to slowly make its way out. Pipelines are now being used to transport carbon dioxide to recover lithium deposits and old oil refineries. By storing carbon dioxide we can limit the affect it has on temperatures and in climate change. There are still some issues with containing carbon dioxide, but ways are being developed to work past possible limitations.
In this essay, the author
- Explains that carbon dioxide plays a major role in global warming. it is the primary greenhouse gas emitted by humans.
- Explains that carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas, could cause a raise of the average earth temperature and problematic climate changes if the acceleration is not stopped. capturing and storing carbon is an effective way to lower emissions released into the atmosphere.
- Explains that carbon storing projects need to keep carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere for thousands of years to make a noticeable difference.
- Explains that carbon dioxide is the most prominent greenhouse gas, but ways are being developed and discovered to lower our emissions into earth’s atmosphere.
- Explains that lithium nitride and carbon dioxide react to produce a heat-releasing reaction.
- Describes carbon capture and storage as the process of trapping carbon dioxide produced by burning fossil fuels and storing it so that it is unable to affect the atmosphere.
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- Proposes that we collect co2, compress it, and store it underground, where it originally came from.
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