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Re:Engineers find neat way to turn waste carbon dioxide into... by namibj on Monday June 15, 2020 @04:23AM (#23525101)
Not really without consumables, unfortunately. But it's easy and costs about 50-200$ per human and month when you just buy the required substance, granular CaOH treated with 1~2 NaOH (by pouring a concentrated solution of it over the CaOH), from Alibaba once a year. That stuff is e.g. used for re-breathers in anesthesia. CAS 8006-28-8 is the "magic" word/number.

The potential alternative, which would not use consumables, would be to just freeze it out. It's not _that_ hard, I believe an ammonia-based single-stage chiller should still suffice. Make sure to use counter-flow heat exchangers to not loose insane amounts of power. Handling the water condensation might not be that trivial, though.

Re:Engineers find neat way to turn waste carbon dioxide into... by swiley on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:42AM (#23526677)
Now you have caustic soda laying around and potentially being aerosolized, I’m not sure that’s an improvement.
Re:Engineers find neat way to turn waste carbon dioxide into... by namibj on Thursday June 18, 2020 @11:03AM (#23563707)
It's used in medical anesthetic ventilators, so not sure where you get your worries from.