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NASA will pay you up to $750,000 to come up with a way to turn CO2 into other molecules on Mars

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If you know any chemists/slash/engineers/slash/imagineers/slash/geniuses

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-pay-750-000-come-way-turn-co2-183428634.html

Pretty smart! I always wondered why factories and stuff didnt just put an air/gas-get around their excreetors and find some way to harvest it.

Help us discover ways to develop novel synthesis technologies that use carbon dioxide (CO2) as the sole carbon source to generate molecules that can be used to manufacture a variety of products, including “substrates” for use in microbial bioreactors.
Because CO2 is readily abundant within the Martian atmosphere, such technologies will translate into in-situ manufacturing of products to enable humans to live and thrive on the planet, and also be implemented on Earth by using both waste and atmospheric CO2 as a resource.
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Will prolly have to do with building amino acids by putting an electrical charge through it and collecting what condensates/coagulates.
 
dirtpoorchris said:
If you know any chemists/slash/engineers/slash/imagineers/slash/geniuses

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-pay-750-000-come-way-turn-co2-183428634.html

Pretty smart! I always wondered why factories and stuff didnt just put an air/gas-get around their excreetors and find some way to harvest it.

Will prolly have to do with building amino acids by putting an electrical charge through it and collecting what condensates/coagulates.
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All you need is to break the carbon away from the Oxygen.

Algae?
 
Actually this Hannover Messe video discusses locating man made fuel production near CO2 sources
to improve efficiency.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ytslUSxYSA
The Navy also has a process, but theirs extracts CO2 from water.
 
dirtpoorchris said:
If you know any chemists/slash/engineers/slash/imagineers/slash/geniuses

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-pay-750-000-come-way-turn-co2-183428634.html

Pretty smart! I always wondered why factories and stuff didnt just put an air/gas-get around their excreetors and find some way to harvest it.



Will prolly have to do with building amino acids by putting an electrical charge through it and collecting what condensates/coagulates.
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You don't have to say "slash" when you use the slash "/"...
 
dirtpoorchris said:
If you know any chemists/slash/engineers/slash/imagineers/slash/geniuses

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-pay-750-000-come-way-turn-co2-183428634.html

Pretty smart! I always wondered why factories and stuff didnt just put an air/gas-get around their excreetors and find some way to harvest it.

Will prolly have to do with building amino acids by putting an electrical charge through it and collecting what condensates/coagulates.
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Any idea where to apply, I couldn't find it on NASA site?

I've got two ideas but I'm not going to spill them here.
 
Exquisitor said:
I sent them a note and hope to hear back in two weeks.

I'll let you know.
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Don't be surprised if their response is negative. They have a strong NIH focus (Not Invented Here).
 
JacksinPA said:
Don't be surprised if their response is negative. They have a strong NIH focus (Not Invented Here).
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They didn't respond to my rain making method application, I signed it cockeyed.
 
You can always try the usual perpetual motion machine idea. Some of these ideas are pretty convincing - to the weak minded.
 
JacksinPA said:
You can always try the usual perpetual motion machine idea. Some of these ideas are pretty convincing - to the weak minded.
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We can get FREE energy just by pointing a magnifying glass at a rock. Takes like half a smidgen effort to set up.
 
dirtpoorchris said:
If you know any chemists/slash/engineers/slash/imagineers/slash/geniuses

https://www.yahoo.com/news/nasa-pay-750-000-come-way-turn-co2-183428634.html

Pretty smart! I always wondered why factories and stuff didnt just put an air/gas-get around their excreetors and find some way to harvest it.



Will prolly have to do with building amino acids by putting an electrical charge through it and collecting what condensates/coagulates.
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Introduce ice algae into the ice caps as an initial plant life. See if it starts helping to convert all the CO2 stored in the ice to Oxygen.

Ice Algae

Ice algae play a critical role in primary production and serve as part of the base of the polar food web by converting carbon dioxide and inorganic nutrients to oxygen and organic matter through photosynthesis in the upper ocean of both the Arctic and Antarctic.​

*edit... I actually signed up to submit this idea. They accept no biological solutions. :(

Just take an Elon Musk Falcon 9 rocket, insulate the crap out of a container loaded with ice algae and crash it into the ice caps.
 
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