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On 10/5/2024 2:12 PM, William Hyde wrote:
> 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.

There have been quite a number of experiments. Its as yet unclear if
there is a good way to do this, and if so, what is the best way.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization#

pt