Showing posts with label co2. Show all posts
Showing posts with label co2. Show all posts

3/06/2008

Believe metallic sponges designed to absorb CO2

More and more advances go routed to the preservation of the environment and the deletion of the compound numbers gases of effect hothouse. You are the case of the following development, in which a team of scientific of USA has designed a new material able to capture the causing main gas of the climatic change, the dioxide of carbon (CO2).

You are about an organic metal, in form of micro-sponges that capture the gas to a temperature and a very high pressure. The idea is to use it in the future to capture the dioxide of carbon that you/they emit the power stations of charcoal or the vehicles, and this way to avoid the emission from the polluting gas to the atmosphere.

Of the several prototypes of sponges created by the scientists, the most efficient in them is able to absorb a quantity of CO2 83 times superior to your own volume.

To achieve these shrinkholes "atrapagases", baptized as ZIFs, they have united diverse metal types like the cobalt or the zinc with organic molecules. The main inducement is that once saturated these metallic sponges, they can "be downloaded" and they are already clever to use them again.

The developers assure that these new materials can help in many environments industrial and quotidian amitigar the efetos of this and other gases. This, clearing is, if finally was viable your commercialization.

12/02/2007

For that to Recycle

It is thought that the popularity of the term to recycle help to the global agreement of a true definition. However, we find that a true definition doesn't exist of what this term involves. For the public in general, to recycle is synonymous of gathering materials to return them to use. A quite accurate definition indicates us that the recycling is any process where cutting materials are gathered and transform in new materials that can be used or sold as new products or raw materials.

The recycling process is bare and he/she can help us to resolve many of the problems created by the form of up-to-date life. They can survive big quantities of natural nonrenewable petitions when in the production processes recycled materials are used. The renewable petitions, as the trees, they can also be saved. The usage of recycled products diminishes the energy consumption. When they waste away less combustible fossils, less CO2 will be generated and therefore there will be sour less rain and he/she will decrease the effect hothouse.

In the financial environment the recycling can generate many employments. A great labor work force is needed to gather the appropriate materials for the recycling and it stops its later classification. A good recycling process is able to generate very good earnings.

This process has obvious benefits, however also some barriers that it is necessary to overcome exist. Maybe the main problem to which you/they face those that want to generate the recycling process, is the ullage of education of the society in general on this aspect. The societies commonly don't understand what is passing to the planet, especially in what refers to the natural petitions. The social problems related with the recycling are not only solved with the education. The societies spread to resist to the changes. The traditional cycle of acquire-consume-discarding is very difficult of breaking. To recycle in the office or in the homestead it requires of an extra effort to separate the materials. It will always be more convenient the habit of throwing everything toward it was. The investigation has made him to be possible the reduction in value of residual, driving to the development of new technologies, guaranteeing that the retrieval pointer and of having recycled of made up of chlorine and derivative products, be increased in the future. The installation of different plants of having recycled of materials, gives place to the creation of workstations and a better employment of the petitions in comparison to the incineration.