Comments on: Another Breath of Fresh Air

By: Emily T

Emily T — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

So long as that's not a design for a new cathedral in Mahoney's diocese - I'm all for it.

By: Funky Dung

Funky Dung — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

IMHO, it looks a heck of a lot nicer than the Taj Mahoney. It reminds me of the Sydney Opera House.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

gbm3, I did a little work with titanium oxide catalysts when I was in China--you can generally expect the products of the catalyzed reactions to be less harmful, just like with cars' catalytic converters.

What concerned me is that fixed titanium oxide, as opposed to some sort of suspension for instance, is not very efficient. The more available surface, the better (as I recall, catalytic converters have a complicated interior to maximize surface). Getting fixed in cement puts a damper on such things, but maybe it could make a small dent.

We might as well make all the concrete surfaces do something rather than just sit there and contribute to our problems with rain runoff and so forth.

By: gbm3

gbm3 — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Where will the atoms of the molecules reconstitute?

Won't the ions just form other compounds down the road? (Like that Jerry)

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By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

I remember reading about the titanium oxide-infused concrete technology before–it may help palliate things, though I'd like to see what the engineers' simulation for how much it will help.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Hmm. The "Snowball Earth" scenario described in that article was interesting in how it hypothesized that if Earth were further from the Sun, life may have ended. Perhaps that was the fate of whatever ecosystem Mars had.

By: Jerry

Jerry — Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000

Yeah, I kind of like that design as well, at least for non-sacred purposes.