Perhaps that is true, but carbon is a very light element (#6 on the periodic table) so most of it is near the crust in the form of carbonates. Pray tell, how do we accelerate the folding of the crust to bury the carbon and expose it to the heat-and-pressures described by the Australian scientists? And that doesn't even consider the issue of separating the carbon in the carbonates into their elemental state.
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Perhaps that is true, but carbon is a very light element (#6 on the periodic table) so most of it is near the crust in the form of carbonates. Pray tell, how do we accelerate the folding of the crust to bury the carbon and expose it to the heat-and-pressures described by the Australian scientists? And that doesn't even consider the issue of separating the carbon in the carbonates into their elemental state.
Sounds like you have a lot of research ahead of you!
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