Growing and burying algae in the Sahara is the latest solution for the climate crisis

CNN ^ | August 18, 2023 | By Thomas Page, CNN

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Out in the Sahara Desert, in one of the most inhospitable environments imaginable, a natural solution to the climate crisis is growing ­– and at a rapid rate.

London-based startup Brilliant Planet has leased 6,100 hectares of land outside the remote coastal town of Akhfenir in southern Morocco, wedged between the Atlantic Ocean to the north and the Sahara to the south. And it’s using it to cultivate algae.

Algae absorbs atmospheric carbon dioxide and emits oxygen via photosynthesis, and has been doing so since before the first land plants ever existed. Brilliant Planet’s CEO Adam Taylor says the company has developed a way to grow algae at exponential rates starting in a beaker in a lab and ending in 12,000-square-meter pools of locally-sourced seawater. Taylor says the process mimics a natural algae bloom, and a test tube of algae can multiply to fill 16 of these giant pools – the equivalent of 77 Olympic-sized swimming pools – in just 30 days.

The algae is extracted from the water then pumped up a 10-story tower and sprayed into the desert air. In the roughly 30 seconds it takes to reach the ground, hot air dries the biomass out, leaving hypersaline algae flakes which can be collected and shallow buried, sequestering their carbon for thousands of years, the company claims.

“Nature-based solutions are a great way of removing carbon,” Taylor told CNN, arguing that deserts are an under-utilized environment.

“It does not cost a lot of money to rent the desert (and) governments are enthusiastic to have any economic activity,” he continued.

[ZOOKER]

This sounds like some scheme which runs off grants from some source with much of the money flowing back into certain pockets.

Yeah, that's what I thought as well.

Let's see now, growing algae in test tubes kinda sounds like Solyndra to me ... remember that company that took billions of tax dollars and disappeared, leaving nothing but an empty building and several acres of broken glass? The algae was to be refined for fuel, but none ever was.

This time the plan is to kill the algae and bury it, and somehow this benefits the Earth.

Around here algae grows anywhere there is standing water in the summer. If I bury it, am I an eco-warrior? Do I get a check from the government?

[ChildOfThe60s]

Back in the early 90s I had a friend who was a really nice person but he was a hard leftist. He also had a PhD in mathematics. So he was no dummy outside of ideology.

So, apropos imaginary global warming due to the non-pollutant carbon dioxide I pointed out to him a scientific study which indicated that 12 billion dollars a year in tree planting at that time, would dispose of all the carbon dioxide that was theoretically causing global warming. He did not want to hear about that.

Why? Because it was never about the climate, it was about a socialist / communist takeover of our government and our society under the cover of global warming