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Letter: Letter

Published 17 April 2004

From George Woods

I was taken aback by the Klaus Lackner plan to strip CO2 from the atmosphere by wafting air across CO2-absorbing chemicals such as calcium hydroxide. As the only viable method of making calcium hydroxide is by heating calcium carbonate – usually by burning fossil fuels – and driving off the CO2 into the atmosphere, the scheme is apparently a multibillion-dollar method of increasing the level of CO2 in the atmosphere.

Manchester, UK

Issue no. 2443 published 17 April 2004

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