Tnaks to Michael for reminding me that Japan has enjoyed success in clearing Yokohama harbor of invasive algal mats by deploying high-density oxygenating microbubble generators-- this began outside the context of geoengineering , and afte nearly a decade, so far no complaints and many compliments from local marine bioogists on restored biodiversity . This is the closly watched area near the berth of Japan's tall ship. *Nippon.*
On Friday, April 28, 2017 at 3:49:01 AM UTC-4, Michael Hayes wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > The top/down approach is needed. > > I would like to point out that one of Greg Rau's early papers was on the > subject of pumping deep cold water up to coral reefs to protect them from > heat. > > It is now known that artificial upwelling will also bring up nutrients and > CO2, neither of which are needed by the coral. As such, if that nutrient > and CO2 rich water is first conducted through an enclosed marine biomass > operation, leaving no more than cold water for the coral, Greg's idea > becomes viable. > > MCB and Brightwater should both play an important role, in concert with > confined marine biomass production, in protecting coral reefs. > > The sale of the marine biomass/biochar should be able to pay for both MCB > and Brightwater operations. > > Best regards, > > Michael > -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
