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From: William Hyde <wthyde1953@gmail.com>
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Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 14:12:16 -0400
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Dimensional Traveler wrote:
> On 10/4/2024 11:27 AM, William Hyde wrote:
>> Cryptoengineer wrote:
>>> On 10/3/2024 10:58 PM, Mike Van Pelt wrote:
>>>> In article <vFGLO.120073$WtV9.87808@fx10.iad>,
>>>> Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:
>>>>> This one sounds interesting.
>>>>>
>>>>> https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/09/26/carbon- 
>>>>> atmosphere-burying-wood/
>>>>>
>>>>> Would take a lot of wood; there are some fast growing but
>>>>> otherwise useless trees (you-clipped-us, for example) that
>>>>> would be suitable for this purpose.
>>>>
>>>> I hesitate to mention hemp (since my impression is that most
>>>> of the people pushing hemp are really more interested in the
>>>> wacky tabaky variety) but hemp (the non-psychoactive kind)
>>>> does have some seriously good points. It's fast growing,
>>>> nitrogen fixing, produces what's apparently a good quality
>>>> fiber, and if you grow a big excess and bury the excess...
>>>> I think it would be pulling carbon out of the air faster
>>>> than trees, which are pretty slow growing.
>>>>
>>>> There may be other plants that are even better at this.
>>>
>>> Seeding the open ocean with iron is also proposed - creates
>>> an algal bloom, which dies and sinks to the ocean floor.
>>
>> Only in some areas, with a high silica content.  Otherwise it just 
>> dies and rots.
>>>
>>> The ecological side effects are not well studied.
>>
>> Still well worth studying, in my opinion.  We should not be leaving 
>> any stones unturned.
>>
> IIRC algal blooms happen naturally and they are not pleasant for the 
> local marine inhabitants.  "Oxygen deserts" is a term I remember hearing
> associated with these.


True.  And often supplying iron simply means that another essential 
nutrient limits the expansion.

I'm not sure that in the end this will amount to anything.  But I think 
we have to study everything.

William Hyde