Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: William Hyde Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2024 14:12:16 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 50 Message-ID: References: <20240913a@crcomp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 05 Oct 2024 20:12:45 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ab16b4f274c07d76db9eb49ecff9ba55"; logging-data="906925"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+BL2jmuBo9jQ+/lwNpB9wO" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:91.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/91.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.19 Cancel-Lock: sha1:qMW0u553GUaXIF9pBzayVyFJ/go= X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 241005-4, 10/5/2024), Outbound message In-Reply-To: X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Bytes: 3353 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 , >>>> Scott Lurndal 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