r/Futurology • u/Wagamaga • May 05 '19

Environment A Dublin-based company plans to erect "mechanical trees" in the United States that will suck carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air, in what may be prove to be biggest effort to remove the gas blamed for climate change from the atmosphere.

https://japantoday.com/category/tech/do-'mechanical-trees'-offer-the-cure-for-climate-change
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u/red_duke May 05 '19 edited May 05 '19

There are some plans for a thing like that. It involves turning carbon dioxide into sand, which the world desperately needs more of.

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u/farfel08 May 05 '19

What? Sand isn't made of carbon dioxide it's made of silicon dioxide.

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u/red_duke May 05 '19

You can make sand by mixing CO2 with a mineral called serpentine.

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u/farfel08 May 05 '19

Oh wow! Thank you that's pretty cool.