Re:Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air
by oldbbsnickname on Thursday October 26, 2023 @01:56AM
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I would bet seaweed or phytoplankton plus floating farm rigs would readily lead to scalable CCS. A few small regions of Earth's oceans would need to be sacrificed for sequestration.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sargassum-turning-smelly-sea...
Regarding economics; there is plenty of olivine rock already available as a mining by-product. Disadvantages are that it takes up to 1000 years to fully sequester however this is logarithmic with a large portion of this achievable in the first century (why they mention 75 years in this article). This can be accelerated with further grinding to increase surface area.
I would imagine that regulations for net-zero will push for carbon removals to be sold similar to carbon credits have been (as net-zero can only be achieved with removals, not credits). These could either be sold as they are created annually or pre-purchased as the mineralization is a pretty sure thing to happen.
Whether this (as in CO₂ removal, not limited to enhanced rock weathering) evolves into a public service equivalent to garbage collection or a utility like water is yet to be seen.