it’s still the climate

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let

this time of reset

result in a carbon economy.

it’s a time of major reset for ourselves, for our communities, for our planet. with fewer planes in the sky, with fewer cars on the road, with business not trying to make things to for us to buy, with us not having to buy things that aren’t essential, we’ve somehow inadvertently managed to #give the earth a break.  birds can hear themselves and we can too.

imagine if instead of an economy based on stocks and shares and bonds and gdp, we had an economy based on co2 emissions. if we used the mechanisms operating today, that would mean that someone would have to make a market, not unlike the way a bank will underwrite a company before they ipo: the price doesnt fall too low. if the carbon markets were underwritten, then you could borrow against future earnings; income would be predictable. now those solar panels on your roof really could be making money.

let’s not let this crisis go to waste. it’s obvious to the thousands of  people who are one major illness away from bankruptcy, or one paycheck away from starvation and/ or homelessness, that the money economy doesn’t really work. what society do you want to live in when the dust settles: the one you just had, or a new one?

photosyl some sources

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NYT Tuesday November 5, 2019 Page D2 “Looking for Life in a Hopeless Place, and Coming Up Empty: microbes color as indicating chemical state. Microbe as the vector.

NYT Tuesday November 5, 2019 D1 “Take 2 Sheets of Carbon and Twist:  ability of carbon/ graphene properties  carbon is able to preserve its integrity on atomic scale

NYT Tuesday May 7, 2019 D5 “Is Conference Room Air Making You Dumber”: Using the O2 byproduct of artificial photosynthesis

NYT Tuesday January 7 2020 Page D1 “Superthin and All Powerful”: the potential of graphene.

Autodesk, The Future of Making, Melcher Media 2017: Can this significant molecules be 3D printed?

Mann, Charles C., The Wizard and The Prophet, Alfred Knopf, NY NY, 2018: Great discussion of photosynthesis and climate change in general.

Lea, F.M. The Chemistry of Cement and Concrete, Chemical Publishing Co. NY NY 1971: A digression into other vectors of controlling climate change. Heme in vegetable-based meat-substitutes is another.

Artificial Photosynthesis

Cleaning the Air of Your Living Room

MOF and Artificial Photosynthesis

Looking at the breakdown of H2O and it’s role in the photosynthetic process. Is the role of chlorophyll to hold the water in a specific way so that sunlight can break the bonds?:

Benjamin, Mark Water Chemistry Waveland Press 4180 IL Route 83 Long Grove IL 60047 2010

Pollack, Gerald, The Fourth Phase of Water Ebner and Sons 3714 48th Ave NE Seattle WA 98105 2013:  I’m not sure this book is reliable but it is interesting and a way in.

 

 

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BRIEF

I am an architect. I had the privilege of building a building for myself, and after it was done I wanted to put in the hedges so I waited for the rain. That year, California experienced drought. I drove up and down the freeway and trees were dying. Huge trees. Old trees. I waited and waited. The rain never came. 

So I thought, if climate change is why this is happening, what can be done about it? 

{After much reflection, I heartily believe that we need to do everything including re-wilding, planting trees, solar panels, clean energy,  limiting use of fossil fuels.}

However, I am an architect so I look for a solution in the building industry. 

The solution I came up with is a coating made of engineered bacteria (thank you Daniel Nocera) coated with a mildly charged substance like graphene (thank you Avi Lankenau) that gets laid onto a substrate that exists in airflow and is tied to an electrical system. 

The obvious example is a coating on a solar panel. This is because it is exposed to airflow and ties into an electrical system. 

Other examples are: coating in designated windows on tall buildings; coating on the exterior of aircraft; coating on windshields of vehicles. 

The coating traps CO2 (carbon dioxide) and possibly CH4 (methane) and converts it to a feeble electrical impulse that goes into the electrical system of the substrate.

The trapping of CO2 (thank you Klaus Lackner) to produce O2 and C6H12O6  is called photosynthesis.

Plants use the C6H12O6 to grow. I would like to convert it to an electrical impulse through the use of nanobots.

Please see subsequent posts for sources.

This research took place over several years and was a great obsession to solve climate change. Many thanks to Lily Cole, Avi Kami Lankenau, Dan Nocera, Kwame Ferriera, Brian Heimberg, Debbie Weiner, Etosha Cave, Nicolas Flanders, Lawrence Berkeley Labs, Tony Fadell, Ev Williams, Max Pryor, Gale Pryor, Tony, my family. Some of these people have provided support, others knowledge; some both.

NYT Science section Tuesday November 5, 2019 Page D2 “Looking for Life in a Hopeless Place, and Coming Up Empty: 1)photo 2) microbes color as indicating chemical state. Microbe as the vector.

NYT Science Section Tuesday November 5, 2019 D1 “Take 2 Sheets of Carbon and Twist 1) ability of carbon 2) graphene properties  Carbon is able to preserve its integrity create O on scale 2) visit graphene research laboratory at University of Carbuncle, North Eastern England.

Scientific Discoveries, Their nature and impact.

Artificial Photosynthesis

Cleaning the Air of Your Living Room

Your Workplace

Conference Room

Phases of Water