Posted on 02/12/2023 6:44:40 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — Just over a year ago, Canadian oceanographer Will Burt was in Fairbanks, Alaska, teaching college students about the effects of global warming on marine life when a former colleague approached him about a startup seeking to use the ocean to remove carbon from the atmosphere.
“I didn’t have to think about it,” Burt said.
Eight months later, Burt was on a fishing boat off the shores of Nova Scotia, running experiments with a group of researchers as part of a moonshot effort to curb climate change.
The theory goes that by altering seawater chemistry, the ocean’s surface could absorb far more atmospheric carbon than it does naturally.
The company is developing an approach that would turn the waste products from shuttered mines into an alkaline powder. They would deliver it into the water via existing pipes from wastewater treatment or energy plants to avoid having to build new infrastructure.
The report highlighted everything from large-scale seaweed farming to shooting lasers to electrochemically change the water’s chemistry, while acknowledging that research on the viability and potential trade-offs of these strategies is nascent at best.
While there’s no specific legal framework for ocean-based carbon removal in the U.S. or Canada, there are treaties that regulate such things as dumping waste into the ocean.
Unless regulatory bodies come up with new rules and permitting processes that are designed with ocean-based carbon capture in mind, the status quo will, at best, pose artificial or unnecessary barriers to launching safe and responsible projects.
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ROFL, Climate is Natural all 17 of them
Science.
“...altering seawater chemistry...”
Don’t go screwing around with things that nature handles...You ain’t big or good enough for that...
What is utterly asinine and stupid is that the USA tries to force emissions control and climate change correction on us to “save the earth” when the population of the USA is only 4.25% of the earth’s population and the others ain’t doing squat....
Dilettantes who fancy themselves "scientists."
What could possibly go wrong when
It WILL work, it just needs LOTS of US taxpayer money, repealing the Bill of Rights, and going full tilt commie. No other countries will have to do anything. Sincerely, K. Schwab.
Destroying the environment in order to save it.
So they’ll just shock the water like it’s a swimming pool. Won’t that make the sea levels rise?
What can possibly go wrong?
Unintended consequences, what are they?...
Man made climate change is a lie.
Few will dispute that the earth’s climate changes over time (both written history and geography history proves earth’s climate has changed over time). This proof also shows that for most of earth’s billions of years of existence man has only had about 200 years of industry to have had any impact, and what impact man had has been both local and temporary.
Volcanos put more pollutants in the air then man has in the past 200 years, yet mankind survives. Even when water levels rise or falls, mankind survives.
YouTube has a channel called Unintended consequences which shows that “good intentions” often end in something bad happening. Messing with the ocean is a bad idea since the need to do so is based on a lie and the fact we don’t know what the end result would be.
I suppose launching Bill Gates and the other Climate Change people into the Sun, is out of the question?
Asking for a friend...
Plop, plop, fizz, fizz
Oh what a relief it is!
Hey Atlantic, how do you spell relief?
R O L A I D S.
Will Jane Lubshenko be giving demonstrations?
Will she be wearing a gold starfish pin? A gold sand dollar? A gold nautilus? A silver sea horse?
As much climate as there are genders now, apparently.
The same class of creep as live shot Kerry. “Can I get a hunting license here?”
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