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Originally Posted by Titanium Cat
Possibly, but to start absorbing large amounts of CO2 to be in anyway useful you are going to need some significant energy source whether it be direct (light) or chemical. Hydrogen sulfide is going to have to come from some sort of organic decomposition. Perhaps the artificial organisms aid in that breakdown.
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If you speed up the metabolic rate in a single celled organism then you invariably increase the rate of the cell cycle, ergo the rate of cell division. So the more cells at work the more CO2 they suck in. The details in the link are too vague to know what cellular or molecular mechanisms will allow for increased absorbtion.