Thanks, Eric. Chaoborus in lakes - that brings back some fond memories:
http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/abs/10.1139/f80-098#.WMxZAEu7YiE
Anyway, if these guys are messengers of methane, how about planting some fish
to keep their numbers down? World wide aerial planting of fish should do the
trick. Maybe we can team up with the SRM planes/rockets - death to global
warming from above and below ;-) On the other hand, if Chaoborus do stir up
the sediment as bemoaned in the article, that's not a bad thing from a methane
standpoint. Stirring up sediment increases aeration and suppresses methane
production(?) Test - section off a lake into 4 sections 1)+Chaoborus, -fish, 2)
+Chaoborus, +fish, 3) -Chaoborus, + fish, and 4) -Chaoborus, -fish. Which one
gives off the least methane? OK, maybe you'd need 4 lakes, each with a
different treatment. To be a well-funded, biogeochemistry/ecology graduate
student again….
Anyway, I'll be in Geneva in late April, and could check in with the lead
author for a full debriefing.
Greg
From: Eric Durbrow <[email protected]>
To: geoengineering <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2017 4:59 AM
Subject: [geo] A novel target for climate engineering? Fly larvae in freshwater
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The gist: a particular species of fly uses methane to keep its larva near the
surface in freshwater. That is about 2k to 130k larva per 1 meter2 of
freshwater. But methane use by the larva increases in dirty water. So keep
freshwater from becoming dirty e.g. agricultural run-off might decrease methane
release from freshwater…
Summary at: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170314081612.htm
Abstract at: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep44478
Question: Is this research being overly hyped or is decreasing methane release
even a few percent from freshwater a Very Big Deal?
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