Enzymes to combat global warming?

Posted on Friday, August 11 2006 @ 10:59 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Researchers have developed a way to use enzymes to combat global warming:

A SIGNIFICANT advance that might have potential to reverse global warming has been developed, but yet to be commercialised on a large scale. The technology provides a biochemical means to safely scrub CO2 from concentrated sources of the gas, like smokestacks of numerous types. The advance was enabled by isolation of the enzyme in animals that removes Carbon Dioxide from blood to permit exhaling CO2 gas. Application of a spot of gene cloning can make this technology fix commercially practical.

Read more at The Inquirer.


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