Re:What fossil fuels are doing to our oceans
by wolfram74 on Thursday March 02, 2017 @12:24AM
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You can start an iron fertilization project for around 20k in boat rental fees + legal fees for illegal ocean dumping. Major companies do it for less altruistic reasons all the time.
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Re:What fossil fuels are doing to our oceans
by anotherturn on Thursday March 02, 2017 @12:50AM
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This is an interesting suggestion - though I'm not sure of the net effect of iron fertilization? How much iron achieves what?
I guess the legal fees cover dumping of anything ranging from nuclear waste to rubbish destined for recycling? I'd assume one could get those waived if there was a proven positive effect of the fertilization.
Re:What fossil fuels are doing to our oceans
by greglindahl on Thursday March 02, 2017 @01:00AM
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Recent studies say that iron fertilization sequesters a lot less carbon than you might think, so maybe we should defer worrying about the economics until we know how much carbon it sequesters?
i think if we ever battle climate change, its going to be this geo-engineering that saves us.
Purely with population growth, we are doomed. Even if everyone had solar powered everything, feeding this population on anymore more then plakton will fully utilise all arrible surfaces on the planet by 2050