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Scientist Discover How to Convert CO2 into Powder That Can Be Stored for Decades
(www.scientificamerican.com)
this post was submitted on 07 Jan 2024
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Plants have a fixed life cycle. Unless we found a way to make all plants like bamboo, capable of growing at extreme speed (there are species of bamboo you can observe groing in real time with your naked eye), plants take a set time to absorb a set amount of CO2.
The promise here is to syphon CO2 straight from the atmosphere into a solid state we can store, reuse or dispose of, safely.
I get that, but the title should be “Scientist Discover a New Way to Convert CO2 into Powder That Can Be Stored for Decades”.
Plants dont make powder
They do. Pollen is plant powder. You can also just grind up a tree, but I’ll give you that sawdust is not naturally occurring.
Pollen is not plant powder, its a living organism.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pollen
My guy, read your own link. Those are tri celled organisms, wikipedia even drew you a pretty colorful picture.
Just because the mediocre website used the word powdery doesnt make the living organisms a powder.
If I describe a leaf as feeling leathery, that does not make the leaf leather.
Do you think that part of the definition of living organism is that it can’t be a powder? Also, do you think sperm are living organisms?
Pollen isnt sperm. Pollen is the heavily regressed secondary generation. All plants follow alternate generations.
Pollen is the male semiclonal offspring of a dominant angiosperm form. The female lives within the heart of flowers, where they wait for pollen males to arrive and enseminate them.
And, yes, the definition of powder is a dry solid that sheers into fine particles. Pollen isnt a dry solid, its a bunch of organisms that are just very small. You could turn pollen into powder by killing, crushing, and drying it. But thats the same as sawdust.
Grab the torch, I'll bring the pitchfork, and let's ask the writer just why didn't made the title less click bait.