• Question: If you could discover how do any one thing, would would it be?

    Asked by lottie1407 to Angus, Christian, Hannah, Laura, Simon on 24 Jun 2013.
    • Photo: Angus Ferraro

      Angus Ferraro answered on 24 Jun 2013:

      A cheap and easy way to suck carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. There are people far cleverer than I am working on this, but I don’t know whether it will work out!

    • Photo: Laura Roberts Artal

      Laura Roberts Artal answered on 24 Jun 2013:

      Rather than discover a thing, I’d like to come up with a formula that means governments across the globe find it easier to make decisions about world poverty, conservation and global warming. It’s definitely wishful thinking on my part, there are so many issues as to why it’s not possible, but I think it would be a great way to resolve some of the problems we face currently.

    • Photo: Hannah Bentham

      Hannah Bentham answered on 24 Jun 2013:

      I would really like to work out a way we can integrate all transport so that we have no traffic jams or accidents.

      For instance, a highway which you can drive your car onto but you don’t need to drive it. The car will travel at a predetermined speed so there’s no congestion, no crashes, no one gets hurt.

      And more travelators on hills for bikes 🙂 it will get people to use bikes more 🙂

    • Photo: Christian Maerz

      Christian Maerz answered on 25 Jun 2013:

      One thing that is a really cool idea (and actually it is already tested in some places) is the storage of atmospheric CO2 in the sea floor, while at the same time recovering methane. In many parts of the ocean, there are so-called methane hydrates, basically a type of ice that forms cage structure in which methane molecules sit. Methane is the gas we use for cooking and heating. This methane could be recovered from the sea floor, but as it stabilises large areas of the continental slope, this could result in large tsunamis. But interestingly, the methane in the ice structure can be replaced with CO2! So we could pump methane out of the methane hydrates without destroying them, and simply replace it with CO2, which would be beneficial against global warming.

    • Photo: Simon Holyoake

      Simon Holyoake answered on 25 Jun 2013:

      I think creating a working fusion reactor which actually generates more power than it uses and can run for more than a few seconds at a time!! it would solve the world’s energy requirements and allow us to stop our reliance on fossil fuels

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