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Genomics. A Cure for Global Warming ?

Posted by cssturk

The global climate is changing, and this change is already impacting food supply and security. People living in regions already affected by aridity need plants that can thrive / grow under dry conditions. Increasing industrial carbon emissions entrap more solar heat. Heat sensitive plants/algea either go towards extinction or can no longer entrap carbon to reduce the atmospheric carbon levels. This is a negative feedback loop.

1. Can heat resistant genes and carbon entrapping genes be engineered in an environment friendly fashion so that we break this negative feedback-loop ?
2.Can low carbon emission bio-fuels be produced by genetic engineering ?
3.Can rhodopsin based electron-proton pumping biological systems (voltaic biology) be re-engineered for solar electric production ?

I feel positive for all these approaches. The question is a price question. If it is feasible financially they will be on the market.