Splitting CO₂

Carbon-Dioxide

The annual release into our atmosphere: 29 billion tons. All of which is due to human activity.

2010 broke all records in history. The "Carbons" (average western family) annually pumped 45 tons of CO₂ into the air.

Intriguingly, carbon-dioxide, the oxidation procuct of cabon, like water, contains oxygen, the gas most animal life can`t do without.
Water is another oxidation product: Oxidised hydrogen. H₂O is quite easy to split into hydrogen and oxygen. The process is called hydrolysis and is driven by electricity. The gas mixture thus obtained is explosive and the end product is .... water.

So, how can we split CO₂ into one carbon and two oxygen atoms?
What is the energy balance in this reaction?

Global Warming

Can there really be billions of tons of CO₂, in our atmosphere? After all, CO₂ is a gas (Avogado).
This volume seems to be unimaginably large, all of it at a very low density.
Is there no ¨economic¨ way to separate O₂ from CO₂ ?

Certainly, liberating oxygen bound in the pollution gas while recycling the carbon, should be the ideal solution
- if at all practicable and economically feasible.

Once again: What is the amount of energy involved in the equation?

CO₂ --------> C + O₂ ?

Ideas, anyone?

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