The cynic in me expects to click this and find an article about trees.
Self-healing material can build itself from carbon in the air
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#32> The chloroplasts are not alive but catalyze the reaction of carbon dioxide to glucose. That reaction also consumes water. So, would you need to regularly mist the material with a spray bottle to keep the self-healing going?
I want to know where all the glucose comes from!
Carbon dioxide? Isn't the whole point of photosynthesis to turn CO₂ into glucose?
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#33I wonder how efficient it is. If a square meter of the material were to be placed in 1000w/m² sunlight, how many grams of carbon can it scrub per hour? Can the carbon be easily recovered? How many break/repair cycles can this material do without deforming or degrading?
Indeed. Sunlight alone can't pull a significant amount of water out of the atmosphere, and plants/bacteria need additional energy in the form of sugars to pull carbon out of CO2 in the air. Where's all this energy coming from?
There is glucose in the compound, as per the article.
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#34What stops the thing from growing indefinitely, but also fast enough when damaged to return to the "original" state? If there's a "surface coating" which when damaged, causes the "inside" to "grow" again, how does the coating repair itself, to stop the "inside" from growing beyond the original surface?
Wait till they make a airborne version of it - this is basically the greenfly
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#35If this can remove CO2 from the air, I wonder if it could do so quickly enough to make an "air scrubber" for a future spacecraft...
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#36Can these surfaces "get cancer"? As in, for some reason, the reaction continues way beyond simply healing the crack?
Hope not - otherwise an alien civilization might find us someday with everyone frozen in carbonite like Han Solo.
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#37What stops the thing from growing indefinitely, but also fast enough when damaged to return to the "original" state? If there's a "surface coating" which when damaged, causes the "inside" to "grow" again, how does the coating repair itself, to stop the "inside" from growing beyond the original surface?
It can't grow indefinitely, because the reaction with the carbon consumes the reactant in the material itself. I suspect the surface coating is a bit like the layer of aluminium oxide that forms on the surface of aluminium in that it seals off the mass under it from reacting with the air, and when scratched, the material underneath reacts with the carbon in the air to form a new coating.
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#38Earlier quoted context omitted.
As a thought experiment, we release 40 billion tons of co2 per year. An average skyscraper weights around 250,000 tons. So that would be the equivalent of 160,000 skyscrapers worth of this stuff. Hong Kong has the most skyscrapers current at 317. So it would be the equivalent of building the skyscrapers for a city that is 500 x the size of Hong Kong every year. Not that you'd have to build skyscrapers with the materi…
Skyscrapers are mostly empty space inside. The Great Pyramid of Giza weighs about 6 million tons, so we’d be producing about 7000 of them annually. Maybe we could just plop them all in the ocean? ;)
I'd probably mess up the arithmetic, but I wonder how many skyscrapers or Great Pyramids could be packed in a volume of 1 cubic mile. That's how much oil we use per year.[0] (All sources combined are equivalent to about 3 cubic miles of oil.)
It would be nice to find a way to bump that up a couple orders of magnitude without actually pulling that much oil/equivalent out of the ground, since there literally isn't enough there.
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#39The cynic in me expects to click this and find an article about trees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifk6iuLQk28
The more I know about biology the less I enjoy (applied and commercial) science because .. well biology does much of it right now.
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