[Rockhounds] West Michigan's geology could be answerto keepingcarbon emissions out of global-warming mix

[Kreigh Tomaszewski]

Axel,

I suspect the Urey Reaction is missing an energy input. Sunlight or 
heat, along with water, could move the reaction in the 'right' way. It 
may only/mostly be effective at the surface.

Kreigh




On Thursday, Oct 9, 2008, at 05:22 America/Detroit, Axel Emmermann 
wrote:

> Kreigh wrote
>
>> I am
>> now fairly confident I don't have to worry about my bedrock basement
>> collapsing when this goes commercial.
>
> [Axel]
> Bedrock??? Hey I know that place from a TV series when I was young. 
> Fred and
> Barney still there?
>
> The Urey reaction is a natural CO2 scrubber, soil-maker, climate 
> buffer and
> who knows what more ?
> The reaction is, at first sight, a bit contradictory with what we 
> learn in
> chemistry class: that the equilibrium of a reaction that produces a 
> gas or a
> precipitation is always shifted to the right.
>
> Cheers
> Axel
>
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