• Rockin’ Out to Our Emissions

    CDs 

    Climate change got you down? Does our country’s perceived inability to reduce greenhouse emissions make you a tad depressed? Well, here’s a bit of news to ameliorate your melancholy: scientists have generated CDs and DVDs from carbon dioxide emissions . The new process involves rendering smokestack carbon emissions into polycarbonate plastics, which is the main material in compact discs, beverage bottles, and eyeglass lenses, among a myriad of other things. So can we mitigate climate change by rockin’ out to new CDs and increasing our home viewing of feature films? “Using CO2 to create polycarbonates might not solve the total carbon dioxide problem, but it could be a significant contribution,” Prof Muller, the German scientist leading the project, said.

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