<div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 11:30 AM, Keith Henson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:hkeithhenson@gmail.com">hkeithhenson@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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Someone suggested Carbon+ in the mode of H+. But more carbon isn't<br>
the concept. So another suggestion is Carbon- (Carbon minus.)<br>
<br></blockquote></div><br>maybe use TV marketing concepts: Free Gas*<br><br>(* just pay for processing sunlight into useful hydrocarbons)<br><br><br>How about calling them SolarCarbons? <br><br> Anyone with knowledge of high-school chem would understand there is no such thing and (maybe) ask what makes them / how they exist. Those less knowledgeable (or inclined to ask) would eventually get on the bandwagon that we need more of them since smart people think they're a good idea.<br>
<br> SolarCarbon: Any technologically produced carbon-based storage of solar energy. <br>(This definition rules out things like trees and algae, since nature probably already has a patent on them)<br>