07-10-2009
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Re: Salt, NaCl, Sodium Chloride.
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Manure and salt cleans up the air
By Kathy Cogo from Townsville , QLD
Wednesday, 20/05/2009
Cattle are considered one of the worst contributors to greenhouse gases and climate change, but now they've a chance to redeem themselves.
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The trial plant outside of Townsville in North Queensland looks very simple and consists of a couple of lengths of cut open poly pipe and two water tanks.
Laura Thorp from developers C&R Consulting says, "It's designed to take sea water, evaporate it down and we add a nucleating agent to it; and it actually produces an imbalance in the water and forces the water to draw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere."
The nucleating agent is a substance extracted from manure.
For the sake of availability, Ms Thorp says they use cow manure.
A by-product of the plant is calcium carbonate which can make environmentally-friendly cement.
To work at its optimum the plant or 'Greensols', as it's been called, needs to be the size of a football field, and it would use tonnes of manure which developers would source from a local feedlot.
The owners are optimistic a commercial plant will be built in North Queensland in the next two years, with the help of the local council.
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Manure and salt cleans up the air. 20 May 2009. Rural Online. (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
I wonder if it then becomes easier to make potable water from the left over water?
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