{"id":520,"date":"2015-08-20T10:31:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T09:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/?p=520"},"modified":"2015-08-20T10:31:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T09:31:11","slug":"carbon-nano-tubes-out-of-thin-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/carbon-nano-tubes-out-of-thin-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Carbon Nano-Tubes out of Thin Air&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there.<\/p>\n<p>If you follow Green ISP News Blog you may remember the post made back at the end of 2013: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/?p=451<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting demonstration about Carbon nano technology, specifically Carbon Nano-Tubes for use in Electrical power and lighting solutions etc.<\/p>\n<p>Well&#8230;. there is a further Development here, as we are all aware, there&#8217;s the issue of CO2 and climate change linked to it, all that extra carbon dioxide clogging our atmosphere might be useful for something here. Using a new development and process to extract Carbon from the atmosphere and produce Carbon composites and nano tech??? so far sounds great to me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In a process described at this week\u2019s American Chemical Society meeting in Boston, Massachusetts, the carbon from piped-in air was spun into tiny nanofibres \u2013 a raw material used to build strong composites such as those used in aircraft and cars etc.<\/p>\n<p>A team led by Stuart Licht, of George Washington University in Washington DC, has designed a process that actively strips carbon from the air and turns it into a product that Licht claims can be sold for much more than the cost to produce it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nano_structure.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-521 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nano_structure-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"nano_structure\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nano_structure-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nano_structure-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nano_structure-148x83.jpg 148w, https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nano_structure-31x17.jpg 31w, https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nano_structure-38x21.jpg 38w, https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nano_structure-382x215.jpg 382w, https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/nano_structure.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The electric current used to power this process could come from conventional sources \u2013 which might offset the technique\u2019s carbon-sucking potency \u2013 but Licht has also successfully run it on solar power.<\/p>\n<p>So, Add on the Idea or Carbon Nano Tube tech producing the actual Electricity to run these things and the mind boggles what could be done here, think about it???<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here&#8217;s some links and a link to the article:<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn28069-turning-co2-from-air-into-car-parts-may-help-carbon-capture-pay\/<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.see.ed.ac.uk\/carboncapture\/nanotubes.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.see.ed.ac.uk\/carboncapture\/nanotubes.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carbon_nanotube\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Carbon_nanotube<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.understandingnano.com\/nanotechnology-carbon-dioxide.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.understandingnano.com\/nanotechnology-carbon-dioxide.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"igit_tsb_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-right: 10px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenisp.net%2Fblog%2Fcarbon-nano-tubes-out-of-thin-air%2F&amp;text=Carbon+Nano-Tubes+out+of+Thin+Air.....&amp;count=horizontal&amp;via=\" style=\"\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi there. If you follow Green ISP News Blog you may remember the post made back at the end of 2013: https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/?p=451 Interesting demonstration about Carbon nano technology, specifically Carbon Nano-Tubes for use in Electrical power and lighting solutions etc. Well&#8230;. there is a further Development here, as we are all aware, there&#8217;s the issue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-520","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-green-news","7":"czr-hentry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenisp.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}