Robert and list (cc William Calvin, who has also responded, and I hope will comment on my questions)
1. Nice talk. Thanks for sharing. 2. Obviously you have used a lot of material (and credited it) from NASA's Dr. Jonathon Trent, who has provided more detail on your approach in a June 2012 TED talk found at: http://www.ted.com/talks/jonathan_trent_energy_from_floating_algae_pods.html I saw your supportive comment there - but a few strongly negative comments. Are those considered serious? Other comments brought me to this (and there are undoubtedly many more) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daWuRY_BFt0 3. I had not realized how far along Trent/OMEGA has come, and presumably further since the talk. Is funding continuing? Has he found commercial partners? 4. The first reason for responding is to comment on your slide #16, using material by Duncan McLaren that your cited (also see http://www. foe. co. uk/resource reports/negatonnes. pdf (2011) or http://www.foe.co.uk/sites/default/files/downloads/negatonnes.pdf; or https://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~shs/Climate%20change/Carbon%20sequestration/negatonnes.pdf I hope this list can be a place to talk about the important information on such slides, and how they are moving in time. Thanks for bringing that slide in to make your point. 5. The second is to ask about your very last slide - where this appears: Grow algae in bags on continental shelf Store algae in deep ocean Use algae for fuel, food, fertilizer, fabric Obviously you are comfortable with #1. But what is your preference to the choice between #2 and #3 (assuming that the latter can also have the carbon sequestration option if the algae is pyrolyzed to also produce biochar - as in the video I shared yesterday - which claims quite favorable economics for produced char)? Ron On Feb 23, 2014, at 9:34 PM, Robert Tulip <[email protected]> wrote: > Here are slides (10MB powerpoint) from a talk I presented today to my work > (Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) on Restorative Ocean > Geoengineering. > > Robert Tulip > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
