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US 5,682,709 AGranted
Method for recycling carbon dioxide for enhancing plant growth
AssigneeThe Agricultural Gas Company
InventorStewart E. Erickson
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Abstract
A method of recycling carbon dioxide for enhancing plant growth. The method comprising the steps of collecting carbon dioxide-containing gas, depositing the carbon dioxide-containing gas into an underground void which is substantially free of methane, storing the carbon dioxide-containing gas in the underground void until it cools to a less than ambient daytime temperature, and distributing the stored carbon dioxide-containing gas to plants within a contiguous tract of plants under field conditions.
Claims17
A method of recycling carbon dioxide for enhancing plant growth comprising the steps of:
- a) collecting carbon dioxide-containing gas;
- b) depositing the carbon dioxide-containing gas in an underground void which is substantially free of methane and which has a temperature therein less than ambient daytime temperatures during a growing season;
- c) storing the carbon dioxide-containing gas in the underground void at least until the deposited carbon dioxide-containing gas cools to a temperature of no more than about 68.degree. F.;
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- d) subsequently distributing the stored carbon dioxide-containing gas to plants within a contiguous tract of plants under field conditions.
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