Well, I was searching to see if this was already made, but the searches didn't show a thread with my idea so here it is. I am making this thread so we can have a typical tavern discussion thread for all things science! Basically, a thread for everything science! Ranging from discussions about laws and theories, scientific debate, breakthroughs, discussion about new scientific breakthroughs, certain scientists/philosophers, and all that good stuff! So go out there and let out your inner science! ;P To get us going somewhere I'll start: what do you think the future holds for technology? I think our knowledge will allow us to overcome the obstacles thrown at us in the future, I mean, we have discovered so much and have come so far!
I wasn't talking about metals, just plastics and rubbers.
All of that can be recycled in one way or another. In fact most dumps are actually almost completely run off the methane they produce from the trash there.
All of that can be recycled in one way or another. In fact most dumps are actually almost completely run off the methane they produce from the trash there.
Basically yes. Those big mounds of junk get covered up and pipes are inserted to allow for the release of gases. Some of those gases are fed back to the buildings and used as fuel to run everything. What they don't use gets bottled and sold.
Sending things like nuclear waste off world however might not be a bad idea. But we would need a much more reliable way of doing it. Just imagine, what would happen if the ship with that type of cargo were to say malfunction and blow up in the upper atmosphere or just not make orbit and come crashing back down. You could end up spreading that material across half the globe.
I never knew that. Does it work like biomass?
Basically yes. Those big mounds of junk get covered up and pipes are inserted to allow for the release of gases. Some of those gases are fed back to the buildings and used as fuel to run everything. What they don't use gets bottled and sold.
Sending things like nuclear waste off world however might not be a bad idea. But we would need a much more reliable way of doing it. Just imagine, what would happen if the ship with that type of cargo were to say malfunction and blow up in the upper atmosphere or just not make orbit and come crashing back down. You could end up spreading that material across half the globe.
You could construct stationary building with a large greenhouse filled with planets specialty chosen for such a filtering process. There could be two smoke stack like structures on either end. One functioning as an intake while the other expelled the filtered air. There could also be other filters made to clean out other pollutants while it was at it as well.
Though radical alterations to the way we construct cities and breaking away from the use of fossil fuels could be effective and more long term.
Though for a closed environment like a space station or arcology such a filtering system could still be of use to maintain the air.
You could construct stationary building with a large greenhouse filled with planets specialty chosen for such a filtering process. There could be two smoke stack like structures on either end. One functioning as an intake while the other expelled the filtered air. There could also be other filters made to clean out other pollutants while it was at it as well.
If we were to make a 30 story version of that (That is big, right? I'm a country boy and don't see skyscrapers much.), we could effectively clean out a large city. i think that it would be more effective to use a pyramid instead of a tower and to have several prismatic columns to better disperse light.
Something like this has actually been tested... everything went fine for a little while until they developed a problem with the temperature. When the building heated up, the gases inside expanded, which caused an increase in the amount of pressure. So a closed environment would not work very easily.
If this were to occur in an open system (the inner environment can exchange with the outer environment), pressure caused by expanding gases would force the gases inside to exit into the outer environment, causing a depletion of oxygen inside the building. The building would need a very efficient filtering system in order to maintain atmospheric pressure levels and oxygen levels. This would be a lot more feasible than the closed system.