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Re:Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air by huytersd on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @03:45PM (#38017331)
So ruin farmland with crushed rock? Why would you even study such things?
Re:Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air by jamescrowley on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @04:20PM (#38017801)
It can actually have benefits to the soil as a fertiliser - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10011191/
Re:Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air by huytersd on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @04:34PM (#38017995)
Anything bigger than a pebble is going to ruin harvesters and planters.
Re:Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air by lucb1e on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @05:26PM (#38018617)
The person you're replying to posted a link which mentions in the "materials and methods" section that the particles in the study were all smaller than 2mm (and 99.6% smaller than 1mm).

To compare with your pebble, which wikipedia says is

> A pebble is a clast of rock with a particle size of 4-64 mm

Re:Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air by ksenzee on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @05:30PM (#38018649)
They’re using rock crushed to ~100 microns.
Re:Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air by lucb1e on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @05:31PM (#38018666)
If you open the article and click the only link in the first paragraph, leading to the source, it will tell you in the introduction

> Crushed metabasalt and olivine soil amendments were used to investigate changes in soil pore water alkalinity as a proxy for bicarbonate production. The metabasalt (median grain size: 102 ± 22 μm) was selected because of its benign elemental composition and modest weathering potential (the parent volcanics includes felsic facies, yielding an overall silica content in the intermediate-to-felsic range). The olivine (median grain size: 83 ± 12 μm), in contrast, was chosen for its potential to weather rapidly

TL;DR scan for the digits in that quote. This stuff is measured in micrometers.

> Why would you even study such things?

Because if everyone were willing to read sources and get to understandings, we would probably not have climate problems in the first place

Re:Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air by ruiisnwn on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @06:44PM (#38019308)
I doubt that. You yourself are just going along with this rediculous Net Zero target. Who decided on 0 why not minus 101 percent while we are at it