Burning CO2 With Light, Making Sugar and Oxygen

Burning CO2 With Light, Making Sugar and Oxygen

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In theory, a very dense layer of rapidly-growing vegetation, capable of producing carbohydrate food energy, under an intense blue-spectrum light source, fed a slow trickle insufflation of carbon-dioxide, will convert water into sugar while excreting pure Oxygen as a waste-product. So from a purely theoretical perspective, we can grow a lot of agriculture, fed a lot of carbon-dioxide, hydroponically. In a perfect world, we can burn a little kerosene if we like, we can burn natural gas. We can make a little carbon dioxide if we like; our green friends will process it for us, making us breakfast, and something to breathe. In highly-efficient closed systems, the amount of carbon dioxide metabolism becomes a function of the amount of lumens in specific wavelengths designed to modulate vegetative growth with fruiting of nutrients. Essentially, sugar and oxygen output become a stoiciometric function of carbon dioxide and the electricity required to generate the light lumens. And at the bottom line, carbon dioxide is processed into sugar and oxygen, consuming electricity. This plant-cycled carbon-dioxide absorption "machine" as it were, consuming wind-generated electricity to convert carbon-dioxide from the atmosphere, literally sucking it out of the air we breathe, should qualify for a federal income tax credit, as a carbon-dioxide absorber of record. Carbon-dioxide absorption credits should be at least a tax deductible, better still, a tax-crediting renewable energy incentive in light of the worldwide service performed by an individual corporation.