Climate change strategies

How to get that damn CO2 out of the air

Climate change will fundamentally alter many things. You could even say that we are facing a 180-degree chemical turnaround. But how is this all going to happen? Christian Mähr explains. 

In the past, hydrocarbons were extracted from the ground, where they were thankfully produced by bacteria over millions of years. And the only relevant question was: what good things can we make from them? The same substances provide the energy required for this because they burn excellently, which is practical.

Today, the whole thing has been turned around. The question now is: How do we get the waste product carbon dioxide out of nature again? And burning something that contains carbon is an absolute no-go anyway. It's a topsy-turvy world. But how is carbon to be replaced?

The generally propagated universal answer is hydrogen. After all, it can be produced in any quantity from water using unlimited solar and wind energy. Problem solved, shut up, monkey dead. Unfortunately, it's the details that get in the way.