We have all heard the dire warnings about global warming, but one Tucson company says it has invented a machine that can take the carbon dioxide out of the air.

Now the job is to convince people that this machine actually works.

It is hard to think about the things we do not see, or cannot see like carbon dioxide. Carbon dioxide is everywhere and, according to scientists worldwide, it will soon contribute to big problems in the form of global warming.

“Frankly it is not where the CO2 comes from that is the problem,” Allen Wright, from Global Research Technologies, said. “It is where it ends up and where it ends up is the atmosphere and that’s what’s causing the grief.”

Trees lessen this grief by taking CO2 out of the atmosphere. The problem is there are not enough trees to do it and they are not doing it fast enough.

Wright and his team of employees have created what may be the world’s first air capture system designed to take CO2 out of the air.

Wright says he was skeptical when he first heard of the concept.

“Why would anyone want to try and do that?” Wright remembers asking. He also says he considered whether something like this was even possible. “Theoretically, it should be possible to do this. Now what?”

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Once the device is filled with air, the doors shut, a chemical solution washes CO2 down the panels and into the separator. The CO2 is then separated from the solution and taken out before the entire process repeats.

“We’re talking about ultimately managing billions of tons of carbon dioxide emissions. We spoke to some 30 scientists about Global Research Technologies air capture system. None of them knew about it. None of them wanted to comment about it on camera. Some questioned the system. Others said they doubt it will work,” Wright explains. “I say it does work. We have made it work,” he confesses.

The average American reportedly emits some 20 tons of carbon dioxide each year. Cars and buses emit tons more while power plants and smoke stacks emit even more CO2 than that.

According to Wright, the solution to the problem of increasing carbon dioxide is not to use less energy, but to use technology to get rid of it.

“People never thought you could fly till somebody flew that glider off the ramp,” he reveals.

Perhaps Global Research Technologies will make history. The air capture system is expected to be finished in 2012.

Wright says it would take at least 30 million systems placed all over the world to cut down on CO2 emissions.