Onboard tanks store CO₂ plucked from thin air, until your vehicle is recharged.
Image text translation: The clean energy charge goes in, and the Carbon Dioxide drawn from the sky goes out to be sequestered far away.

When you stop at the charging station, your accumulated CO2 is drawn off. It won't require you to do anything.

When the novelty wears off, you'll forget it's even happening. The nozzle that delivers your electric charge will also withdraw the CO2 your vehicle has collected since the last visit to any station.

Your onboard CO2 tank does not need to be big. Depending upon the size of your car, it might hold 2 to 4 cubic feet of the highly concentrated Carbon Dioxide gas.

Tank size will also depend on how big a tank your vehicle can accommodate. For a car, that would be smaller. For an RV, large truck or bus, the tank might be double or quadruple in size. Locomotives and ships have enormous capacities for tanks.

You can get a much better idea of the air cleansing power of a properly outfitted CNV vehicle below — and let's think inside the box for a change.

Your vehicle will remove all of the CO2 in this volume of air—and it will do it every week...

Imagine if every car, truck, RV, bus, locomotive and big ship in the world is also removing all of the CO₂ in its own cube of air — and it is doing that continuously, year after year — until our sky is once again clean and pristine.

On average, they would do it once a week: they would empty their accumulated CO2 at the same time as they recharge at the charging station. Large vehicles would have larger tanks. Tanks on trucks, buses, locomotives and large ships would clear CO2 out of much larger volumes of air.

The description of there being a volume of air for any given vehicle is just a way for you to visualize the extraordinary impact this new technology will have on the total atmospheric shell which surrounds the earth. Naturally, all volumes of air are constantly mixing with each other.

An internal combustion engine car on the road emits about 4.6 metric tons of Carbon Dioxide each year. EPA  A CNV car will remove a healthy percentage of that every year.

CNV vehicles will extract CO2 tirelessly for the next 30 years — in conjunction with a host of other potent CO2 cleansing methods — until the percent of CO2 in our atmosphere is at levels not seen since the Industrial Revolution of 1760. That was the point at which industrial pollution of the sky began.                                                 Image to the above right by Léonard Defrance - Interior of an Industrial Revolution Foundry.

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There are about 1,500 new cars and trucks on that shipping dock. Imagine 1.5 billion just like them removing Carbon Dioxide from thin air as they cruise around town or take to the highway. Effectively tackling Climate Change is all about Scale, Spend and Urgency.

A timeline to reverse a scorched future.

2020: 78 million dangerous CO2 spewing cars, trucks, RV's and buses are produced worldwide.

2021 and 2022: The same bad news as 2020.

2023: A brand new batch of 78 million Carbon Negative Vehicles — CNV's — cars, trucks, RV's, and buses — no longer put any CO2 in our sky.

Instead, they begin to swiftly remove all excess atmospheric CO2 at a meaningful global scale.

2024: Yet another new batch of 78 million CNV's is delivered to excited motorists the world over.

The old polluting cars leave the road, or are retrofitted with new Carbon Dioxide scrubbers.

With each passing year, millions of new CNV cars are added to the roster, until the goal of one and a half billion of them is achieved.

In just a few years time, you will see CNV's beginning the reversal of Earth's warming.

With a World War II-style production mentality, governments and manufacturers can secure this precious goal at lightning speed.
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If you are scratching your head, and thinking:
"How can you put that much CO₂ in a small tank?"

The amount of CO2 in any given cube — even a really big cube — is not very much.

Remember that the percentage of CO2 in any given volume of air is miniscule. That percentage is measured in 'ppm,' or 'parts per million.'

The amount of CO2 in the big cube depicted above is 419 ppm. That percentage of CO2 occupies a mere .04% of the cube. This much are other gases: 999,584 ppm, or 99.96%!

Tanks can be small because the CO2 we will capture will now be highly concentrated: that means we will stuff an awful lot of CO2 into a small tank.

What would power the CO₂ Scrubbers integrated into every vehicle?

We may choose to have all vehicles run on efficient batteries that are charged by wind and solar sources only. Consider that little energy is required to deliver CO2 to the Scrubbers — it just blasts in as your car tools down the highway.

Energy will still be required to operate the Scrubber.

That power might be sourced from the car's batteries, and perhaps also be co-generated by hidden compact wind turbines adjacent to the Scrubber. Interestingly, CO2 Scrubbers have a battery-like quality that allows them to generate a small amount of electricity.

The stark warnings now permeating the conversation that a new energy infrastructure will be required to remove all the excess CO2 up there — and it will call for thousands of huge facilities, at astronomical costs, and 50-year timelines — might now be obviated by the relatively low cost, simplicity, and raw power of simply asking our vehicles, trains and big ships to engage the task.

Image text translation: It is time to say goodbye... The Internal Combustion Engine.


Why couldn't we leave the internal combustion engine in place,
and still add CO₂ Scrubbers on our vehicles?

Choosing that route would be better than doing nothing — but not by much.

The problem is that the world is careening towards an unimaginable future of heat, devastation and death — and much of that nightmare is caused by polluting cars, trucks, buses and large ocean-going ships. A reckoning for our folly is coming our way much faster than all previous evidence would suggest.

Without maximizing every chance to reject fossil fuels, every opportunity to embrace clean green energy technologies, and to build cars that pluck CO2 from the sky, we will not be able to prevent a catastrophe of an unparalleled magnitude.

Recent proposals by automobile manufacturers declare that 2035 would be a tolerable sunset date for the sale of—and putting on the road—the last polluting vehicles. But wait— think about that for just a moment. If the average life of a car is about 12 years, then that puts those 2035 model cars still on our highways until 2047!

What sounds reasonable at first blush is more likely to be yet another dangerous postponement of sober and effective heat-reduction solutions. Given how much human-released CO2 is already in the sky, those timelines are cynical at best.

It will take much more than only ramping up electric and Hydrogen vehicle production to make the real difference we seek. There are three other major factors a safe atmosphere demands:

1) Insure that all new vehicles won't emit CO2,
2) Are also of a potent CO2 capture design,
3) And insure service stations deliver clean electricity for CNV-EV's, and non-Methane sourced Hydrogen for CNV-Fuel-Cell cars.

The automobile industry could take the high road, and recognize they have the power to save our planet and civilization—and the generations to come—should scientists and engineers declare that CNV vehicles are a viable agency for reversing the Climate Emergency.

And, the industry would likely sell a lot of beautiful cars in the process.

Internal combustion engine automobile pollution is killing us.

Particulate pollution of the air we breathe is dangerous and even deadly. Recent research at Harvard University indicates that the issue is getting worse, regardless of governmental standards put in place that were designed to regulate the issue. Thousands of lives could be saved — and health issues minimized — if we choose to deliberately move away from the gasoline engine, and embrace non-polluting models. HARVARD • UOCS

CNV cars won't pollute. Instead, they'll pluck CO2 from the sky day and night.

Our goal is to turn the fleet Green as fast as possible. That means first and foremost to convert production to pure CNV — no to emissions, and yes to on-board CO2 removal.

Let's open a second front and retrofit all vehicles currently on the road.

No, we won't penalize those who still drive a CO2 emitting vehicle. No one will have to choose between keeping their car on the road or being forced to buy a CNV car.

To reduce anxiety and be fair to the millions of non-CNV vehicles, owners will be allowed to continue to drive their vehicle. However, they will all also be asked to adapt.

CO2 spewing vehicles already on the road will be retrofitted with CO2 Scrubbers at service stations and garages. The vehicle owner will be happy with the compromise. You can bet that service station owners and auto mechanics will be on board, with an appreciation for the prodigious volume of business it would bring them.

By law, and over the course of just a few years, any car brought in to any service station would automatically be retrofitted. Additionally, even if there was no pressing service requirement, vehicle owners might still get a letter in the mail indicating: "It's your turn. Please bring your car into Max's Auto Garage on Oct. 12th."
Image by Ryan Doka from Pixabay

Over time, regulation would insure that all vehicles are retrofitted to conform with the clean atmosphere goal. Once highly efficient CO2 Scrubbers have been installed, they would also be neutralizing their own tailpipe CO2 pollution as well.

While these efforts would be nowhere as efficient as a production line attaching CO2 Scrubbers, they would still make a big difference in reducing vehicular CO2 pollution and would nonetheless be a potent initiative that could take a proud "2nd Place."

Image text translation: Carbon Pooling Station - Electric Vehicle Charger

Your new CNV car captures CO₂— and it also regularly delivers it.

Carbon capture is difficult. It requires exotic designs to meaningfully remove CO2 from the atmosphere. That invention is now here, and may shortly be in your car. The second tier of Carbon capture is: "What do you do with the stuff once you've got it in the tank?"

This is the other remarkable point about using our vehicles for Carbon capture. They can capture it anywhere, but they can only deliver it to the same places we all will charge up at. This is the less obvious but altogether necessary activity that CNV vehicles perform.

All commercial refueling stations and chargepoints will by law be outfitted to accept volumes of CO2. On a regular time schedule, those enormous tanks of concentrated CO2 are trucked or piped away to sequestration facilities, and thus the circle is complete.

The extra edge...

Some folks might choose to regularly run their CO2 Scrubbers even while their car is parked in their driveway, or in trendy parking lot facilities where their managers know the value of accommodating ever greater numbers of people who care about the issue.

Doing so would not involve running the vehicle's motors nor tapping its batteries.

We would continue to efficiently remove CO2 even when we're not driving anywhere.

 Could CNV vehicles be one of the keys to completely reverse Global Warming?

As Carbon Dioxide builds in the atmosphere, it also acts like a blanket. Sunlight that strikes the Earth's surface creates heat. As that heat attempts to return to space, it is blocked by the presence of ever increasing amounts of greenhouse gases, of which the primary culprit is CO2.

What is not widely known is that it only takes tiny amounts of CO2 increase to cause a disproportionate trapping of that heat trying to get back to space.

This might be very good news.  What's causing the Global Warming crisis are just the small amounts of excess CO2 in any given volume of air. If we remove those small amounts, we could lower the temperature. Until recently, there was no easy way to do that — but that is now about to change. What's brand new are technologies which can remove CO2 from the atmosphere at any concentration. The fastest way to scale up that removal process would be to harness the monumental capacity of our global fleet of 1.5 billion vehicles on the road.

If we reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by a mere 130 ppm, we will achieve our goal. There are a billion cubic miles / 4.2 billion cubic kilometers of air encircling our globe.

The total CO2 reduction needed to completely return us to normal temperatures is only .015% of that vast ocean of air. That works out to about 150 thousand cubic miles / 625 thousand cubic kilometers of excess CO2, still a stunningly large volume.

Along with other CO2 removal technologies, that mountain of CO2 in the sky will still be no match for those billion and a half cars, trucks, RV's, buses, locomotives and big ocean-going ships draining their 'cube' of CO2 every week over a 30-year timeline.

Let's look at the cost of fielding this audacious Climate Emergency solution.

The cost of CO2 Scrubbers can be spread across all of the consumers who use them — which will be just about everyone. Vehicle manufacturers will be on board hopefully for planet-saving reasons. They will also appreciate that every vehicle produced will now include another profit center: a Vehicular CO₂ Capture and Storage Tank.

Some might justifiably challenge that model. "Manufacturers should do it as a public service. It is about saving our planet — isn't it?" While that's true, it just might be the better part of valor to incentivize their participation by making it profitable.

Up front, the lure for consumers might be the desire to make a difference. This spirit of the times could be nurtured with widespread public service announcements, as well as widely distributed talks by experts concerning the historic importance of the transition.

Governments will also offer significant incentives when a CNV car is purchased. For example, an affordable CNV vehicle could be coupled with a significant rebate from any country's treasury: "This new CNV vehicle will be sold sales-tax free; additionally, your government will assist you in defraying its cost with a $2500 rebate."

In order to insure a firm phase-out date for the manufacture of non-CNV vehicles, governments would have laws on the books mandating that manufacturers comply.

Image text translation: Moving away from heating and cooling our homes, offices and factories with fossil fuels is as important as any action to reverse course.

Some might say: "Let the market decide; it is what's always worked." The issue with that reasoning is that it does not take into account the extreme harm that is currently being done — and will continue to be done — by all the existing vehicles that rely on fossil fuel.

Competition in a new CO2 Scrubber manufacturing environment will insure that costs that will be passed on to the consumer will be reasonable. We might all pay a little bit more for that new car, but the financed payments will be spread over many years. We will be doing our part.

Say that a CO2 Scrubber retails for US $500, including the cost of installation in a vehicle. If that were a cost that had to be borne by governments, it might be regarded as outlandish: perhaps US $1 Trillion.

On the other hand, were it borne by the billion and a half consumers, it would just be another relatively small notch in their financed vehicle, and paid out over a period of years.

Given the seriousness of the Climate Emergency, this math is a reasonable way to parse an effective financing rubric for the removal of all the excess CO2 in the sky. It's also likely that governments might wish to participate in defraying those costs.  Tesla & The Moon Image by Ben Saida from Pixabay

It's a good approach when neither governments nor manufacturers will find an objection to a CO2-removing planet-saving enterprise. Research and development to perfect this new and exciting invention will still require funding by governments and manufacturers.

A timeline to launch meaningful production quotas for CNV vehicles can easily be achieved in no more than five years. The scale we need is at hand — let's put it to work.