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Climate Change could end because of this spectacular invention made by leading researchers at Queen's University Belfast...
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Is This The End To Climate Change? Researchers from the University of Belfast just developed a liquid that could
capture gases like carbonat dihydroxid (CO2) or methane that cause the
current global climate change.
In comparison, methane is 25-times more harmful for our earth then
carbonat dihydroxid. Recent studies suggest that we are now entering a
state which is described by the milankovitch theory. The theory states the
when the earth’s temperature increases, our best natural reflector, the ice
caps on north and south pole, melt. Thus, the sea level will rise with water
being the worst natural reflector. Because of it being the worst natural
reflector, less sun beams will be reflected away from earth but will heat up
the oceans which will then melt the ice caps even quicker – a double mill!
But, Professor Stuart James from Queen’s University Belfast School of
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering has a revolutionary idea. He explains
that the liquid he and his research team developed, is full of holes which
surprisingly is a good thing. He states: „Materials which contain permanent,
or pores, are technologically important [...] They are used for
manufacturing a range of products from plastic bottles to petrol“.
Here’s how the liquid works: James and his research team took cage-like
molecules which have hollow space inside. These hollow spaces inside the
molecule allow it to form potential „cages“, as James describes them.
These cages can fit methane or carbonat dihydroxid molecules in it and
thus hopefully some day reduce the amount of carbonat dihydroxid in the
air and help weakening the current milankovitch cycles.
Liquid [Background] Queen’s University Belfast
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