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.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
For the most part though, I think the elites are only doing lip service for more money...
Won't work. The original moonshot was accomplished by actual scientists not a bunch of common core retards.
One of my biggest fears is that when leftists have acquired sufficient world power they will begin to take concrete environmental action, whether it be pumping something into the atmosphere, or dumping some chemical into the oceans. There’s no doubt in my mind that they will cause a world-wide environmental cataclysm if allowed to do so..
This people are going to destroy the planet with one of their
hair brained ideas.
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