Lower CO2 Levels and Win $25 Million

Posted by Sheila Franklin Categories: Corporate News, Misc. Tech, Science

It’s time to put your scientific acumen and geekability into practice. With all the recent flack over Al Gore and “An Inconvenient Truth,” scientists in very high places, such as NASA, are beginning to take notice. They will soon be releasing a report on certain concepts designed to reduce global warming. Although many of them are far-fetched, such as “The Geritol Solution,” dumping iron dust into the ocean to increase plankton, which creates more algae that will suck up carbon dioxide, perhaps others such as a “Space Sunshade” will not seem so extreme.

Also concerned with the situation, billionaire Richard Branson offered a prize of $25 million to the first feasible solution to the high CO2 levels on our planet. We are wondering if our most basic idea, that of planting 2 trees on the part of every human to replace the oxygen that we use up, would qualify us for a couple of those millions.

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