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DULAC Family and friends of a Dulac man murdered in New Orleans Oct. 20 are seeking donations to help the wife and three young sons he left behind shoulder expenses.
Archie Solet, 32, was gunned down at a New Orleans intersection after he rode his motorcycle to the city for the day.
New Orleans Police have said they have not established a motive for the killing and have no suspects.
Friends of the family, however, say Solet took a wrong turn into a crime-infested neighborhood about a mile from the French Quarter and was slain in a robbery attempt.
An account has been set up in his name at South Louisiana Bank, family members said. Donations can be made at any South Louisiana branch location.
Solet was married with three boys ranging in age from 7 to 13.
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You've been here before. Remember when you tried to get your students to read Pride and Prejudice and then watch the Olivier flick as a "treat"? Forget that Jane Austen and World War II are separated by two centuries. As far as your students are concerned, they're both in black and white and that's all that counts. You're going to come face to face with the "So what?" question.
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Columbia is boarding the team bus in New York around 1 p.m. Wednesday for a 7 p.m. tip at Hofstra on Long Island.
Joe Jones isn't taking any chances.
The last time he took the Lions on this short road trip, on Dec. 1, they never made it.
The Lions' bus was caught in a massive traffic jam, leaving them stranded in bumper-to-bumper traffic on I-95 and unable to make the 7 p.m. tip.
Columbia left campus at 4:45 p.m., in what should have been enough time to get to Hofstra by 5:30 p.m.
The Lions ended up staying in the bus for 3 hours and 15 minutes without ever bouncing a ball.
"Once we weren't moving, I called Tommy (Pecora of Hofstra) and told him that we're in trouble," Jones said of his former assistant coaching colleague under Jay Wright at Hofstra. "He told me the Throgs Neck Bridge was out and that everyone was going toward the Whitestone Bridge. I knew then there was no way we were going to make it."
Meanwhile, Pecora had his team stretching but then pulled them into the locker room to inform them the game would have to be postponed. An announcement was made to the 2,500 fans that the game wouldn't go on -- because of a traffic jam.
Well, since then, all has been clear along the road toward surprisingly successful seasons for both of these recently struggling programs.
Have you checked the standings page recently on our site? Hofstra is atop the Colonial Athletic Association with its 7-0 start and Columbia (yes, Columbia) has the top overall record in the Ivy League at 6-1.
Suddenly, three weeks after the game was supposed to occur, Hofstra and Columbia might be the top two teams in the New York City area.
Columbia's assent to respectability is more dramatic. The Lions won just two games two seasons ago. There was talk that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was going to take over the program, but it never happened. Instead, Columbia went for Jones, a Villanova assistant.
In his first year, Jones' Lions won 10 games. This season, he's already won six, beating NCAA Tournament participant Lehigh on the road and winning at St. Francis (NY) -- the same team that beat St. John's.
OK, we know you're not wowed by some of these wins, but they are very significant for this squad. This is a league where the race for the title is typically decided on Oct. 15, when Penn and Princeton start rolling out the balls. While it's premature to say that Columbia is going to be a factor with those two squads (as well as Yale and Brown) in the Ivy this season, the Lions are creating a bit of a jolt so far.
"We inherited players that were better than people thought," Jones said of Matt Preston (16.3 ppg) and Dragutin Kravic (11.1 ppg).
"Our bench is mostly freshmen but we're much improved over last year."
Jones, the brother of Yale coach James Jones, is energetic and commands loyalty from his flock of players. He got the entire team to stay in New York for the summer, with the players getting internships and working out as a team on campus.
Why is this significant?
"Because in the Ivy League, you can't pay for rooms and meals over the summer," Jones said. "They did a great job in conditioning. We're stronger and we're faster."
And the program is receiving support like never before on campus. New athletic director M. Diane Murphy was quoted in early November as saying that the Columbia facilities are "woefully inadequate." She also said that the "tradition of losing in most sport programs at Columbia frustrates and demoralizes alumni, parents, students, faculty and staff."
She went on to say that "compared to our Ivy League peers, Columbia suffers from significant underfunding and understaffing at all levels of the athletics program."
These statements didn't appear in some idle story. They were actually posted on the school's own athletics site. Murphy, who was the athletic director at the University of Denver for the previous six seasons, was hired in August.
"She's tough, knowledgeable and doesn't take any crap," Jones said. "She's straight up."
Jones said when he arrived the players were so hungry to win that they just wanted to understand how. He said he received "things" the past two years that weren't there before, like new computers and locker room upgrades -- things that generally improved the entire program. The players look good, feel good and now they're playing well.
"We've still got a long way to go," Jones said. Columbia plays N.C. State in the Holiday Classic at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 28. But if they can beat Hofstra first, they'll be kings of New York, at least for a day.
Manhattan has been the team to beat in the city the past two seasons behind star guard Luis Flores, but that title currently belongs to the Pride after they took out St. John's. The Jaspers still might end up having one of the best squads in the area, but Hofstra's rebirth will challenge them not just for city pride but also for recognition beyond if the Pride can get back to the NCAA Tournament.
Hofstra doesn't play Manhattan. The Pride's next "big game" is at Syracuse on Dec. 30. But beating Columbia is first on the agenda for a program in dire need of good news. Hofstra was the one of the top teams in the America East when Wright was the head coach and Speedy Claxton and Norman Richardson were the program's top players.
Pecora has had some bad breaks since. The program went to the much-tougher Colonial Athletic Association and has been riddled with injuries. Pecora has lost two starters late in the season in three straight years. This season, Loren Stokes, who is putting up 19.9 points a game, freshman Antoine Agudio (17 ppg) and Aurimas Kieza (13.4 ppg) lead the Pride.
Pecora said he's thrilled with the way the team is playing so far. But he's realistic enough to know that the Pride still have to win the CAA to get into the Dance. Hofstra won 10 games in the CAA last season, but just 14 overall. He's already surpassed his non-conference win total of a year ago but the league is probably deeper this season, making it perhaps harder to get to 10 wins in the conference.
"You need to get your non-conference numbers for the NIT in this league," Pecora said. "We're still a one-bid league so you have to have a good non-conference record."
But the fact that Columbia and Hofstra are playing a meaningful game in late December is remarkable. Let's just hope there isn't any traffic Wednesday afternoon to derail this game once again.
Andy Katz is a senior writer at ESPN.com.


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Can Sea Urchins Show Scientists How To Capture Carbon Affordably?
According to a story in Gizmag yesterday, a group of researchers at Newcastle University in the U.K. may have accidentally stumbled on a solution to the problems that have bedeviled carbon capture and sequestration — by studying sea urchins.
"We had set out to understand in detail the carbonic acid reaction, which is what happens when CO2 reacts with water, and needed a catalyst to speed up the process," Dr. Lidija Šiller, the leader of the team, said in a press release. "At the same time, I was looking at how organisms absorb CO2 into their skeletons and in particular the sea urchin which converts the CO2 to calcium carbonate."
The use of calcium carbonate to grow shells and other bony parts is a trait urchins share with other marine animals. And when the team examined the urchin larvae, they found a high concentrations of nickel on their exoskeleton. Working off that discovery, they added nickel nanoparticles to their carbonic acid test. The result was the complete removal of the CO2 as it was converted into calcium carbonate.
According to Gaurav Bhaduri, a PhD student in Newcastle University and the lead author of the team's paper, the methodology they derived — and have now patented — is simpler and much cheaper than the traditional enzyme-based approaches:
"The beauty of a Nickel catalyst is that it carries on working regardless of the pH and because of its magnetic properties it can be re-captured and re-used time and time again. It's also very cheap – 1,000 times cheaper than the enzyme. And the by-product – the carbonate – is useful and not damaging to the environment."
The research team developed a process to capture CO2 from waste gas by passing it directly from a chimney top through a water column rich in nickel nanoparticles. The solid calcium carbonate can then be recovered at the bottom of the column.
The researchers say their discovery could provide big CO2 emitters, such as power stations and chemical processing plants, with a cheap way to capture and store their waste CO2 before it is released into the atmosphere.
Every method invented so far to capture or sequester carbon from emitters before it can enter the atmosphere has suffered from difficulties regarding cost, feasibility, and side-effects. Pumping CO2 into the ground, for instance, is difficult, expensive, and carries risks of leakage, water contamination, and even earthquakes. Other processes, like the ones mentioned by Bhaduri, also convert CO2 into calcium carbonate or magnesium carbonate through the use of enzymes like carbonic anhydrase. But because of the chemical complexities they're inefficient and expensive.
Calcium carbonate, which is essentially chalk, is widely used in the building industry to make cement and other materials. It's even used by hospitals to make plaster casts. So once removed from the Newcastle team's carbon capture process, the calcium carbonate could potentially be put to other uses.
The discovery certainly isn't a cure all. The process can't be fitted to car, so its use is limited to power plants and other major emitters. But Dr. Šiller believes it could someday have a big impact: "It is an effective, cheap solution that could be available world-wide to some of our most polluting industries and have a significant impact on the reduction of atmospheric CO2."
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Maybe not a silver bullet, but a nickel bullet?
The calcium carbonate produced could be put into the oceans to counteract acidification but we are going to need billions of tons. Probably getting ahead of what is feasible but it's nice to think the lowly sea urchin having 500 million years to work on evolving carbonate chemistry has something to teach us.
Wondering where you would get the calcium? It'd have to be from gypsum, I suppose. Most other common calcium minerals contain carbon, which would of course defeat the purpose entirely.
Gypsum is CaSO4·2H2O
I'm no chemical engineer, but pull the Ca out of that and your left with sulfur dioxide, sulfuric acid, or both.
Can we stop trying to make coal clean now?
So where are they getting the Calcium don't tell me it's by heating limestone to drive off carbon dioxide.
I looked at the paper. The paper is about catalysis to improve the rate and lower the cost of conversion of carbon dioxide to carbonic acid (H2CO3). The paper doesn't discuss the source of calcium. The idea of converting CO2 to CACO3 is just a motivation in the abstract and the introduction. It doesn't mention sea urchins at all. The source of calcium on a large scale is the major issue I think in this idea. CaO is made from CaCO3 usually, so that is pointless.
Photon & bill,
"The research team developed a process to capture CO2 from waste gas by passing it directly from a chimney top through a water column rich in nickel nanoparticles. The solid calcium carbonate can then be recovered at the bottom of the column."
They're not any source of calcium, they're using nickle nanoparticles to catalyze cal. carb. from CO2. The questions are: how much NICKLE do we need per gigaton of CO2? Do we have it? What are the collateral results on that scale? What is the cost? What's the timeline for delivery at scale?
Also, perhaps: What effect in seawater?
I'm always very suspicious of plans like these. As those above noted, where are you going to get the calcium. Theoretically you could use another element. Also where do you put it? I know they say CaCO3 can be used as a building material, but we are spewing gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year. That would mean we'd need gigatons of calcium every year. That is a lot of plaster casts.
David Stern, am I off here? Calcium is required? Anyone?
No, you're correct. I think they're getting confused from reading too fast. It uses nickel, as you said, and produces the calcium carbonate.
I work in a related field, so my response may not be definitive, but I'd say it's informed at least. The questions you've asked here are exactly the right ones, and probably what the researchers are trying to answer for themselves right now.
First off, the calcium bit is a red herring. Geologic sequestration is generally envisioned with olivines (magnesium and iron silicates) and similar minerals. We lack a good calcium source that isn't already a carbonate. Furthermore, calcium carbonate isn't a particularly stable mineral, and can lose CO2 on heating or slowly at low pH.
But calcium aside, one of the major challenges in CCS (carbon capture and sequestration) is purification of CO2 from other combustion products. Turning it briefly into a soluble bicarbonate species is one method with excellent potential to achieve that goal more cheaply. At present we lack an excellent catalyst to do it (in biological systems it's done by the enzyme carbonic anhydrase, but that's too expensive for industrial application). That's actually what I work on, and this study proposes an interesting solution.
Whether this can beat out the current technology depends on the catalyst activity, its lifetime, the cost in producing it, among other economic considerations. The bad news is that nickel is not a cheap metal. It's ten times the price of lead and zinc and perhaps double the price of copper. That doesn't mean there's no chance of feasibility, but it increases the challenge.
Not necessary if we decarbonise, so a sop to the fossil fuel interests. Another five or ten years can be spent proving that the technology works, or it is a chimaera, lovely years of continued mega-profits for the fossil fuel mob.
A veritable Little Ray of Light. Me, I'm a cynic by profession and a sceptic through experience. I smell a fossil fuel rodent lurking hereabouts. Just decarbonise, as fast as possible, and leave the coal in the ground. Oh, no, all that lovely money, going to waste.
And nanoparticles have been shown to be completely harmless, by loads of research, haven't they?
Thanks. Jury's still out then, but we'll be lucky indeed if there is at scale sequestration that can be at least a partial solution.
You have a point there.
Sorry for the double post, but I went ahead and looked at the paper. There are some misleading statements (though they may be honest mistakes) and the CO2 uptake data have a strange inconsistency that is hard for me to understand.
First, they claim that the rate limiting step (RLS) in CO2 sequestration is hydration of CO2 to form carbonic acid. This may be true under artificial conditions where calcium carbonate is "sequestering" the CO2, but it's certainly not true in the real world, where dissolution of olivines and similar silicate minerals is the RLS, and happens -much- more slowly. They make this claim a couple times, including in the abstract, and I think it's fair to characterize it as misleading.
As to the data, I'm quite puzzled by the "DI water" plots in Figure 5a and 5c. They feature what is sometimes called a "sigmoid" shape: a plateau, then a drop, then another plateau. That is completely inconsistent with what they are supposed to be measuring, which would drop with a gradually decreasing rate, just like the "DI water + NiNPs" in 5a. There is no reason to expect a delayed drop like that. This signals a major problem with their experiment that will have to be addressed before the results can be trusted. I'm worried the press release on this way overstates their case.
Indeed :) Though it should be pointed out that the chemicals currently used to separate CO2 in natural gas mining (and currently the cheapest option to do it for flue gas) are highly toxic and corrosive. A better solution is sorely needed.
Brian, you do understand that nickel is used as a catalyst in this process? And the used catalyst is recovered magnetically for reuse? It is misleading to think of Ni consumed per gigaton of CO2 sequestered. At this point, this is a science project. Perhaps you should study more about the basic science rather than focusing on the non-existing technology.
Gaurav Bhaduri, you have the podium :)
Pretty harsh response to some pretty reasonable questions..
Every catalyst has a lifetime. There is some degradation pathway into something. With nanocrystals that is often aggregation or sintering, whereby the nanocrystals cease to be nano anymore. Then the question is, what does it cost to make them nano again? If there are other degradation pathways, such as oxidation, you have to consider how to reverse those as well. And at the scale we're talking about, you are still going to need much much more catalyst than for a typical industrial process, so the price and availability of nickel is quite relevant.
This all isn't to say the science shouldn't proceed (it certainly should), but it's never a bad idea to anticipate stumbling blocks.
In the end, the carbon dioxide capture idea could be a bit of progress. There's still a big issue. It's the same issue that an idea for a car that gets 500 mpg on a gallon of water would have. Where do you get the energy?
If you want to bubble 10% carbon dioxide, 10% oxygen and 80% nitrogen through a column of water, where do you compress the gases to get them to the bottom of the column?
Once you capture calcium carbonate, you probably want energy to convert it back to pure carbon and pure calcium. If you have solar power or wind power, this second step can wait a few hours or days until the sun shines or until the wind blows.
In a coal company's dream you'd plow the charcoal into nearby topsoil, but what happens when all the nearby topsoil is well-carbonized? Then a dump truck needs to haul the carbon off to some carbon sequestration landfill.
Next question: if you have 395 ppm of carbon dioxide, can you bubble that through a water column? The answer is yes, and why not. You could do this where solar power is cheap, out in a desert, and you could bury the carbon cheaply.
You're quite right, I do lack the basic chemistry for this & should probably bugger off. The paper is paywalled for me, so I am relying on third hand information that, as far as I can find, mention nothing about introducing calcium into the process. I didn't know enough to realize it would apparently have be there. Nor did I get that the Ni is completely recovered (which seems like chemical perpetual motion to my untrained eye). And it may be a stretch to call this a real technology, as opposed to "non-existing", merely because the team is peer reviewed and has a patent. I'll just slip into the background….
Gypsum, is obviously not a good way to go.
I presume the Calcium must come from calcium containing silicates (most likely igneous rocks). If so it is a way to speed up the silicate to carbonate cycle, which is our planets thermostat (warmer planet means faster conversion, which reduces Co2, leading to cooling. The natural process is too slow for us, taking maybe a million years to approach equilibrium, so we have to speed it up many fold.
Obviously with anything like current rates of consumption many cubic kilometers per year would need to be done. I think the scale is unrealistic, although I could imagine some carbon being turned into useful products.
The proposed approaches to taking CO2 plus water plus energy to make hydrocarbon fuel, start with carbonic acid in seawater. The Navy would like to do this with Nuclear power on aircraft carriers, to create jet fuel. Maybe this process would make carbonic acid easy enough to create on land (using stranded wind/solar)? The only proposals I'd seen needed a stream of CO2 from a power plant, so at best each carbon atom is used twice. [But if the CO2 came from biomass, maybe we have the makings of something sustainable].
They did make the claim, easily separated out and reused. For both economic and ecological reasons, the leakage rate (of Nickel) would have to be pretty low.
Because of the nanoparticle concerns, adding nanoparticles to mine waste rock to speed up carbonate formation is probably a no go.
IIRC (not a chemist either) the carbonation reaction is endothermic (gives off energy). So energy isn't a showstopper. Of course any industrial process requires some form of energy. But its probably more a question of economics and scale, then of whether it works on paper.
From the news release:
"At present most carbon capture and storage (CCS) proposals are based around the idea of capturing CO2 (…)power plants and pumping the stripped out gas into underground storage (…)
The Newcastle researchers say that an alternative approach would be to lock up the CO2 in another substance such as calcium carbonate or magnesium carbonate. This can already be done by using an enzyme called carbon anhydrase but it is very expensive."
This is not what carbon anhydrase do. Carbon anhydrase catalyses the conversion of CO2 dissolved in water into carbonic acid, that then dissociates to bicarbonate(HCO3-) plus hydronium(H+) ions, and also the reverse reaction. This is the reaction:
CO2(aq) + H2O(l) = H2CO3(aq) = H+(aq) + HCO3-(aq)
It is slow without catalysts, but carbon anhydrase accelerates it. This enzyme enables organisms to rapidly absorb and/or liberate CO2, for example, without it we will die from CO2 poisoning, since the enzyme speeds up CO2 absorption in the bloodstream and its liberation to air in the lungs. Here is a good review in PNAS:
However, turning CO2 into H2CO3 it just turns carbon dioxide into carbonic acid (and viceversa). This is useful to separate the CO2 from the mix of gases that made the smoke of power plants , obtaining clean air and a "carbonic acid concentrate". The structure of a carbon capture facility is shown in the BBC news release:
With this discovery, it will be cheaper to "concentrate" CO2. A good starting point , but not enough to actually "capture" carbon because carbonic acid is not stable. To capture CO2 you must turn into a stable form, like calcium carbonate (CaCO3) or magnesium carbonate (MgCO3).
This is the classic thermodynamics vs. kinetics issue. There is no catalyst that can do the trick. That is impossible because catalysis is about the speed(a.k.a. kinetics) of reactions , not about the direction of them (i.e. the fact that the reaction can occur or not, a.k.a. thermodynamics). Calalysts just speed up already (thermodynamically) feasible (but slow) reactions.
To precipitate CO2 into a stable solid you need a base to neutralize the carbonic acid. The two most useful industrial bases are sodium hydroxide (NaOH) and calcium oxide(CaO). Unfortunately the production of them is energy-intensive and in the case of calcium oxide… well the equation showing the production of it by calcination says it all:
CaCO3 + heat = CaO + CO2
The best bases avaivable that can work are the calcium(or magnesium) silicates, like olivine (Mg2SiO4), enstatite (MgSiO3) or wollastonite(CaSiO3), just to name a few. The reactions are:
Ca(Mg)SiO3(4) + H2CO3 = SiO2 + Ca(Mg)CO3
The rapid transformation of carbon dioxide into carbonic acid can help this reaction, but nothing about that is said in the news release.
There is also calcium carbonate, that can also neutralize carbonic acid into calcium bicarbonate:
CaCO3 + H2CO3 = Ca(HCO3)2
Calcium bicarbonate is more stable than carbonic acid, but it is still highly soluble in water so cannot be sequestered into a solid product. If the water is acidified by any acid, the CO2 can be liberated.
This is an excellent, technically accurate summary. Thanks, From Peru. I would only add that the silicate reaction in your reply is thermodynamically favored, but is limited by the rate of dissolution of the silicate at most pHs. (Not to say you don't know that, but readers may be confused by the thermo/kinetics but in your prior post.)
Since sea level rise is one of the primary consequences of having too much CO2 in the atmosphere, isn't it a little counter productive to take a gas to form a precipitate that sinks to the ocean floor?
Does "Eureka" ring any bells?
How about the simple question: HOW MANY YEARS FROM NOW?
Even as I like (love) to learn about potential advances and want (need) positive news, questions:
Is this little more than a university lab experiment that might emerge decades from now or has this been tested / prototyped at any scale?
Seems to me that this discussion / post needed to be tempered with some realism about the leap challenges from university lab to real world applications.
Calcium hydroxide or calcium-ion-enriched fresh water are likely possibilities for testing. The nickel catalyst seems cheap, but I'm very skeptical about the technique's ability to keep nano-nickel out of the food chain and the environment in general. Don't want plant respiration inhibited. Don't want little plaques of calcium carbonate forming in one's lungs.
Calcium-depleted water on an industrial scale is also something to mull over.
But then I'm cautious.
Leaving coal in the ground and conserving electric use doesn't push us as hard into unfamiliar consequences.
Wow, what a great dialogue on a fun chemistry problem for a very serious problem much in need of a solution. As a trained environmental chemist, but who switched over to policy/politics early on, this is precisely the sort of discussion that needs to be taking place in much grander forums, every day. The over-arching problem, as I see it, is that even IF the discovery that nickel-as-catalyst is a scientific breakthrough (though I find it hard to believe this would be news to those who have been searching for a way to sequester CO2 from smokestacks), we would need a fast-track RD&D program, with field tests, and gov't-private sector cost-sharing, to see if there's a way to turn CO2 into solid CaCO3 "chalk" before the CO2 is emitted into the atmosphere. As for Ca sources, it's a common element found in limestone (karst topography), sedimentary rocks, and bones. It's likely used in industrial processes in various forms and a market demand would cause a market supply. Again and again, we've seen new federal and state laws create thriving markets (e.g. the catalytic converter in every automobile). The chemistry of this sounds simple to me, or at least, manageable. The problem will be, as it almost always is, the limiting factor of political and market will, and cost. Unless and until we put a price on carbon, there is no driving factor to make this "chemical reaction" go. Put another way, we need to light a bunsen burner under the coal industry execs, and making it a lot more expensive to emit carbon dioxide is the best way to light that fire. (My view, anyway.)
One more quick comment — one of the commenters here said: "The paper is paywalled for me, so I am relying on third hand information that…" This is a serious problem — scientific journal articles are prohibitively expensive for the lay person or even scientists not affiliated with universities or large corporations willing to pay the subscription fees. Let us be reminded of Aaron Swartz, who took his own life because he was being aggressively prosecuted by DOJ for downloading scientific papers from JSTOR. We need OPEN ACCESS, or some degree of it anyway, so that people like me, people like CP readers, can read the original paper that these news stories were based on, and see for ourselves what they say. The authors of this sea urchin-nickel-CaCO3 paper know nothing at all about coal burning and CO2 emissions. Leaping to conclusions from new findings in one scientific discipline about potential applications in a completely different scientific discipline is dangerous and requires sophisticated interdisciplinary examination. If more of us had access to scientific journal articles and made a point to read them, more and more of these cross-over ideas would pop up and perhaps we'd make more headway in solving today's tough problems. RIP Aaron Swartz, and thank you for all you did to keep the internet intact and to call attention to the "paywall" that keeps us from being able to read about all the wonderful scientific discoveries happening every day.
Excellent discovery I must say! This really could be end to all the doom and gloom of greenhouse gases and provide a real solution to reduce CO2 in our atmosphere, from the humble sea urchin! In the meantime, it is important for households and businesses to look to reduce emissions and their carbon footprints. I work for a company where this is particularly important and at the top of the agenda: Nviro's CO2 footprint
Yes, that's the consequence of using/making calcium carbonate to control pH in aqueous environments – it leads to the release of carbon dioxide.
It could be coupled in a system to prevent accumulation though.
Reading the article and the comments, I just had and idea: Given that CO2 concentration in the ocean should be lowered to save pH sensitive species/diversity, how could humans accomplish this? Even very simple industrial plants would take too many resources to build enough to make a difference. Bioengineering a fast growing animal, like the Sea Urchin would upset ecological balance. Putting such genes in a bacteria would lead to blooms and remove too much oxygen.
Perhaps these carbon fixing genes could be put in cyanobacteria or in an algae. These might have difficulty competing with the native species, but maybe they could also be changed to be more acid loving. Even if only a low % of these "plants" (compared to native) could spread to large areas of the ocean, they might fix enough carbon to make a difference. It seems that zooplankton that grow calcium carbide structures would like to eat these plants to get the calcium carbonate without having to make it themselves. Perhaps the zooplankton could also help with the carbon fixing "plants" reproduction.
Another idea is to make the CaCO3 zooplankton more acid or even heat tolerant so more would grow. Whales should appreciate this change!
Jim, if you dump calcium carbonate into the shallow seas it will sink to the bottom and once it is buried 10 centimeters it will stay there a long time. If dumped into the deep it will sink till it hits the carbonate compensation depth where it will dissolve and release it's Co2 and calcium. It will absorb hydrogen ions and in the process counteract acidification. I don't know if you are serious about your concerns re. sea level but the feasibility of sourcing billions of tons of calcium ( gypsum) seem unlikely so not to worry. We are still on a trajectory to change the ocean surface water pH by 150% within 90 years. Sea level change in same time frame? A couple feet?
BBC News quotes co-author Lidija Siller: "You bubble CO2 through the water in which you have nickel nanoparticles and you are trapping much more carbon than you would normally – and then you can easily turn it into calcium carbonate. It seems too good to be true, but it works,"
The Newcastle University press release quotes Siller "the result was the complete removal of CO2". The press release states the group has patented the process and are looking for investors. PhD student lead author Gaurav Bhaduri is quoted: "[the nickel catalyst] is very cheap, a thousand times cheaper than carbon anhydrase"
Chemistry World, i.e.: "Sea urchin inspires carbon capture catalyst" quotes Siller: "'The current challenge that we are addressing is to quantify the process. We would like to determine the reaction kinetics and exact yields. Once we have this information we plan to do a small continuous process in a lab-scale pilot plant". CW dug up a skeptic: 'This work represents an incremental addition to CO2 capture where the catalytic dimension is relevant,' comments Mark Keane, who investigates catalysis engineering at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, UK. 'True innovation, however, should harness catalytic action in the conversion of CO2 to high value products, such as carbamates".
Not so fast!
Calcification is actually a SOURCE of carbon dioxide, not a sink. Here is the equation:
Ca(HCO3)2(aq) = CaCO3(s) + CO2(aq,g) + H2O(l)
calcium bicarbonate (aqueous) = calcium carbonate (solid) + carbon dioxide (aqueous or gas)+ water (liquid)
This is a counter-intuitive, but true fact: all calcium carbonate-producing organisms actually emit CO2 when they make their shells from calcium bicarbonate dissolved in the water.
To "fix" carbon you need a base. Silicates of calcium and/or magnesium are the most common natural ones.
I'm honestly a little baffled by how they're selling this to the public. They are blatantly overstating their case. I'm glad CW looked for a skeptical opinion on this (though I actually disagree with the specifics of his objection). Having read the paper and seen the data I'm cringing over this whole episode. Luckily for them it's in a relatively small journal, so if it doesn't work out it will probably just fade. Heck, maybe it will work, but wouldn't you want to be sure before you tell it on the mountain? There are some very simple experiments that would have made the paper much, much more conclusive.
As long as there is new calcium from weathered minerals, the process does net take dissolved CO2 out of ocean water. The real problem is a man made calcium source that doesn't put more CO2 into the environment than it is worth.
Bruce, as you say you will need billions of tons, which when placed in water will displace billions of tons which have no where to go but up onto the shore. And yes I am serious about my concerns. I have patent applications in the works for five ways to counteract the 69 feet of rise Jason Box says is currently built in. By converting ocean heat to mechanical energy using OTEC, the electrolysis of ocean liquids, the capture of melt water before it enters the ocean (as has been suggested locally for tankering water from Ocean Falls in BC to the US), the movement of surface ocean heat to a depth where its coefficient of expansion is half that of the surface, and the throttling of the movement of tropical heat to the poles by the conversion of this heat to mechanical energy and the movement of surface heat to the deep where it contributes less to sea level rise. The plant life produced onshore by water either desalinated from or that would have otherwise gone into the oceans would provide food, fuel and fiber for the 10 billion living on the planet in a few years. I don't see that benefit provided by sea urchin.
Jim, If ever there were a time to think big this is it. Hats off, but in the process you could add some alkalinity back into the oceans it would be of service.
The lead author of this paper, i.e. Gaurav Bhaduri, and Dr. Lidija Siller are posting explanations of their work directly to the Google Geoengineering group.
They are responding to comments coming from Dr. Ken Caldeira, Dr. Greg Rau, and Oliver Tickell.
The exchange can be monitored at this address: Nickel catalyst discussion
Thanks David. That discussion seems to be proceeding in a murky fashion, haha. In any case, it only addresses questions regarding the application assuming the activity they report is true. My issue is that their data appears not to support their conclusions that they have an active catalyst. I have contacted Dr. Siller directly and haven't received a response.


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Bowling News USA - August 5, 2014 Bowling in NASCAR Spotlight at Pocono Raceway
GoBowling.com 400 brought together two of America's favorite pastimes
LONG POND, PA – This past weekend, two of America's great pastimes, racing and bowling, came together as GoBowling.com served as title sponsor for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Pocono Raceway. The race was won by Dale Earnhardt Jr, his third victory of the season and the 21st of his career, and his first season sweep at a track since Talladega Superspeedway in 2002.
The race honored both the GoBowling.com 400 and the 40th anniversary of the raceway's first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series event where Richard Petty drove the STP Oil Treatment car and became the inaugural winner of the Pennsylvania 500 on August 4, 1974. To celebrate the moment, Petty returned to Pocono Raceway to serve as Grand Marshal. Additionally, in a tribute to both the great sport of bowling and Petty himself, Richard Petty Motorsports (RPM)'s Aric Almirola drove the No. 43 Ford Fusion, which featured an eye-catching bowling themed paint scheme and GoBowling.com branding.
"This weekend was a deeply meaningful opportunity to relive the excitement of that first victory at the Pocono Raceway in 1974," said Petty. "This was a weekend of fun and excitement, and also an opportunity to shine attention on two great sports that bring people together, create wonderful memories, and are Americana at its best - racing and bowling."
For the second consecutive year, the race was renamed the GoBowling.com 400 and featured the branded GoBowling.com No. 43 Ford Fusion. Additionally,Pocono Raceway, RPM and Strike Ten Entertainment initiated a multi-layered integrated marketing campaign that spanned traditional, digital and social channels, and included event activations.
"The incredible resurgence in popularity that bowling has seen in recent years is reflected in the success of the GoBowling.com 400," said John Harbuck, Interim President of Strike Ten Entertainment. "We were thrilled to once again partner with the great teams at Pocono Raceway and Richard Petty Motorsports, and I'm proud to say that we set the bar even higher with this year's race."
The partnership program also included a series of GoBowling.com themed bowling league promotional contests and in-center marketing elements, as well as other initiatives that were rolled out across thousands of participating bowling centers.
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Police ID drug suspectJuly 17,2013Police have identified a man they say refused to provide his real name following a drug bust in Clarendon.
Johnathan Gonzalez, 22, from Brooklyn, N.Y., had been identified in court records as "John Doe" at his arraignment on heroin possession chargesMonday in Rutland criminal court.
Police issued a press release earlier Tuesday morning providing the suspect's real name. The release does not state how police obtained the information. Police said Gonzalez previously identified himself as Jose Munez, 15, and Jose Morales, 16, both of Brooklyn, N.Y.
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IntroductionThe Transportation of the 1800's has changed a very dramatically now, than I'm sure that was thought before. The North and the South both had transportation problems and the main problem they were having was that they needed to get around on water. They need a fast ship or boat, but they had very few choices to chose from. The steam boat was one of the main choices of transportation but it wasn't very fast. There are also the wooden row boats and fairy boats, but they could not carry large loads of cargo. So, what are they going to do?
Before the 19th centuryIn the 18th century transportation was like very slow steamboats, hand rowed row boats, and other things that would take about one hour and a half.
Some changes have been made since the 1800`s like steamboats, I am positive that they still have steamboats but there are different things to because you can still find a steamboat somewhere like I don't know a place with more water than land and you might use steamboats for fun but really nothing else.
The North & South togetherThe United States was in need of change with transportation because they were in luck with a lot of land, but didn't have the population they needed to move goods around and get them from place to place very fast. So the unpopulated places were making it very hard for the transportation to go well especially before the railroads were made in place of road-ways and water ways that could only really go one way till there was highways and railroads. Robert didn't just help the North, he helped the South get upgraded too with a steamboat too and helped with the South's economy too.
The NorthIn 1807, Robert Fulton invented a steamboat named the Claremont that went from New York City to Albany. For a 150 mile trip it was done in only 32 hours and was against a current that was really strong at the time. The time that the steamboat took to travel was a much bigger advantage to travelers than using horseback that would take about 4x more time than going on the Claremont. The only problem was, was that the claremont was only on the waterways and could only go a certain way so it was hard to get to an exact place using a waterway type of transportation other than using roadway transportation. This new steamboat was great because it could do things without relying on animals, currents, nor wind for travel. Then in 1827 the very first railroad that was made for passengers and freight. It was called the Baltimore and Ohio railroad (B&O railroad). The B&O was made connect the Baltimore harbor to the Ohio river. The railway reached a total of 23 miles in three years which isn't a lot, but jumped to about 2,800 miles by 1840, and then grew to about 30,600 miles after the 1850's.
The SouthIn 1811 Robert Fulton decided to help the South a little bit because he knew that they both relied on each other for upgrades on a lot of things. What he did was he brought the Steamboat named New Orleans, Down the Mississippi which became a huge economic prospect also. The New Orleans brought prices such as transporting from New Orleans to St. Louis, for one ton of merchandise from $23 dollars down to $13 dollars which was huge with where they were at. And the steamboat (New Orleans) brought the amount of steamboats from 20-1200 between 1814 to 1834.
The Difference - North and SouthThe South had hardly any transportation and what they did have was things that weren't anywhere close to the transportation that the North had. As you can see, the North was a much more industrial part of the United States and was always looking for better ways to transport things from the South to the North as well as just from a city from the North to another.
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Sprint Undercuts Apple IPad, Verizon With Samsung Tab
Sprint Nextel Corp., trying to undercut rivals in the tablet market, will sell the Samsung Electronics Co. Galaxy Tab for $200 less than it costs on Verizon Wireless's network and $229 less than the iPad.
Sprint will offer the Galaxy Tab starting Nov. 14 for $399.99 with a two-year wireless-data contract. Verizon Wireless is offering the Tab for $599.99, and Apple Inc. sells its lowest-priced iPad that can connect to a mobile-phone network for $629, though in both cases customers are not required to sign up for data contracts.
Sprint, the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier, aims to capitalize on the surging tablet market and gain an edge on Verizon and AT&T Inc. The Galaxy Tab is one of the first tablet devices to challenge Apple, which sold 4.19 million iPads last quarter. AT&T is the exclusive carrier for the iPad -- as well as Apple's iPhone -- though Verizon plans to sell a version that relies on a Wi-Fi connection to access the Net.
"This is designed to move market share in Sprint's favor and is a very compelling offer," William Vogel, an analyst with Merlin Securities LLC in New York, said in an interview. He has a "buy" rating on Sprint shares.
Sprint is offering the device, which uses Google Inc.'s Android operating system, with data plans of $29.99 per month for 2 gigabytes of data or $59.99 for 5 gigabytes of data, according to a statement today. Verizon has a $20 plan for 1 gigabyte of data monthly and AT&T offers 2 gigabytes monthly for $25 on the iPad.
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The Tab features a 7-inch screen, compared with the iPad's 9.7-inch display. It also has cameras on each side for video calling and can work like a mobile phone.
Dell Inc., Research In Motion Ltd. and Motorola Inc. have all announced plans to release tablets, which are generally lighter than laptops and rely on touch screens.
AT&T also has said it will sell Samsung's Galaxy Tab, though pricing details aren't yet available, said Mark Siegel, a spokesman for the Dallas-based company. Reid Walker, a spokesman for Deutsche Telekom AG's T-Mobile USA, also declined to say how much the company would charge for the device. T-Mobile USA is the fourth-largest U.S. carrier.
Sprint, based in Overland Park, Kansas, slid 10 cents, or 2.1 percent, to $4.75 at 4 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. The shares have added 30 percent this year.