What are some ways to remove or reduce the amount of Carbon Dioxide?

Question

What are some ways to remove or reduce the amount of Carbon Dioxide?

Answer 1

"Common indoor plants may provide a valuable weapon in the fight against rising levels of indoor air pollution. Those plants in your office or home are not only decorative, but NASA scientists are finding them to be surprisingly useful in absorbing potentially harmful gases and cleaning the air inside modern buildings."

"NASA research has consistently shown that living, green and flowering plants can remove several toxic chemicals from the air in building interiors. You can use plants in your home or office to improve the quality of the air to make it a more pleasant place to live and work - where people feel better, perform better, any enjoy life more."

Answer 2

I use nutra-air

Answer 3

The idea (above) that cutting down trees and not burning them somehow helps CO2 is about as wrong as can be.   Whatever you do with them, they still decompose, and in doing so they oxidize.  Heat is the byproduct.  Burning is oxidation occurring rapidly enough to emit light.  And we aren't going to be making any coal by burying wood either.  I can't believe what I'm reading!

Answer 4

Reduce the planet's population.

Answer 5

Your carbon footprint measures the amount of carbon dioxide you contribute to the environment.

You can read about reducing your carbon footprint here:

http://www.greenstudentu.com/Reduce_Carb...

Good luck!

Answer 6

We actually need is to bring carbon ratio at balance. There are two strategies to do this.

1. Reduce emission

    i. reduce fossil fuel burning, use renewable enrgy source like solar and wind energy.

    ii. reduce deforestation rate

2. By providing a fixation source

     by growing plants extra amount of CO2 can be fixed.

Answer 7

Removing CO2 from the atmosphere requires "sequestration."  It is simple.  

First, pick something that sucks CO2 out of the air and "locks it up" in its own body.  Let's use trees as an example.  They turn CO2 into wood, but this only works while they are growing and actually making wood.  Mature trees don't sequester carbon.

Plant trees and let them grow until they don't get much bigger each year.

Cut down all the trees.  Do not burn the wood nor allow it to rot.  Those things return the CO2 to the air.  (Heating your home with wood is no more environmentally friendly than burning coal or oil, so don't do that.)  Use the wood to build houses, furniture and stuff, or bury it really deep where it cannot get any oxygen.  Wetlands work really well if you can get the trees to sink into the mud.  They quickly run out of oxygen in the mud and won't rot.  Expect to encounter some resistance when you announce your plan to use wetlands as a landfill because not everyone is eager to sequester carbon.  If you bury the wood deep enough and wait long enough, it turns into coal.  Don't burn it, either.

If you need more room for more trees, you can convert farmland to forest, but then there will be less food and food will cost more.  You can also cut down old forests.  They aren't useful to sequester carbon because the trees are not growing or they grow very slowly and so they don't turn very much CO2 into wood.  You will gain the most efficiency by targeting the oldest and biggest trees.  Do expect some resistance at this point.  When you start chopping down mature forests like the California Redwoods or the Michigan White Pines you will learn that not everyone is eager to sequester carbon.

Left to its own, nature is very inefficient at sequestering carbon.  A rain forest, for example is a total waste of space.  The plants and trees are allowed to rot and release all the carbon back into the atmosphere.  If you hope to get any carbon sequestration efficiency out of the rainforest, cut down the trees and use them to make tables and lamps and stuff.  Expect to meet resistance at this point when people learn that you want to cut down more rainforest and sell off the lumber.  Again, you will learn that not everyone is eager to sequester carbon.

That's about all there is to it.  Cut down all of the biggest trees you can find, use them to fill in wetlands or bury them really deep and plant little trees.

Answer 8

Force the air threw lime, not the fruit, like the old submarines used to do to purify their air

Answer 9

Tree Planting :)

Answer 10

plants, trees ,flowers anything that photosynthesizes will convert CO2 into usable plant food energy

Answer 11

Make all the liberals stop exhaling (except those who never inhaled of course.)

And stop producing carbonated soft drinks and alcoholic beverages.

Eat more meat so as to reduce the number of animals on earth, and elect John McCain for President because he'll make sure we're in constant war and that'll kill off many humans

Answer 12

Don't fly (if possible). Use less gas (drive less or get a more fuel-efficient car). Invest in green energy via carbonfund.org. Have your home's energy come from green sources (wind, water) rather than coal by going to: http://www.eere.energy.gov/ greenpower/ buying/ buying_power.shtml (I had to put spaces in the link so you can see the whole thing - so you'll have to type it in.)