$100M xPrize for Carbon Removal

Re:$100M xPrize for Carbon Removal by tt23523 on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @04:50PM (#27826160)

most of the plans to sequester carbon in the ocean make me worry about how that would impact the broader ecosystem. As I understand it, it would change the chemistry of the ocean, which might trade one disaster for another. Not to mention ideally sequestration would last for millennia.

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Re:$100M xPrize for Carbon Removal by thechao on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @05:30PM (#27826558)

We’re already sequestering a quarter of the CO2 in the ocean; this will do so in a safer way that mimics the large scale natural process that’d happen over the next few millennia anyways.

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Re:$100M xPrize for Carbon Removal by tt23523 on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @06:03PM (#27826831)

well scaling a natural process will change the chemistry of the ocean. Since the ocean is such a huge component of our planetary system it would be foolish of us to approach it without monitoring and planning for the consequences of this scale of engineering.

i've found https://www.annualreviews.org/doi/pdf/10.1146/annurev.energy... to be a pretty good overview.

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