________________________________ Scientists Consider Brighter Clouds to Preserve the Great Barrier Reef
I would like to add that there are naturally occurring surface rising currents that bring nutrients and CO2 to surface i.e. along the coast of Chile. The viability of Greg's idea is not spoiled by some CO2 emerging from the deep ocean. Not at all. The problem should be formulated around the question whether quantitatively speaking enough cold water can be put to the surface to make a difference for corals to survive during the heat waves. In my view. some people sadly have a difficulty to distinguish between driver-processes and respondent-processes that ride on the back of something else. CO2 coming along with the water isn't the driving phenomenon or something like a self-sustaining feedback loop of importance. Far from it! Equally speaking we could say that force of gravity exists where there are presence of weak and strong nuclear forces, and forces of electromagnetism. Does gravity change essentially any of these other process. Nope. The question therefore remains whether enough cold water could be skimmed off ocean streams through tubing or mechanical pumping, to either preserve an entire system, or area where biodiversity could be preserved for future when ocean temperatures would be down enough to allow species' reintroduction. ________________________________ From: [email protected] <[email protected]> on behalf of Greg Rau <[email protected]> Sent: 28 April 2017 09:42 To: [email protected]; geoengineering Subject: Re: [geo] Scientists Consider Brighter Clouds to Preserve the Great Barrier Reef Just to be clear, the upwelling-to-cool-corals idea was lead author Hollier's (attached). My contribution was to consider adding alkalinity generation to this scheme. Greg ________________________________ From: Michael Hayes <[email protected]> To: geoengineering <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2017 12:49 AM Subject: Re: [geo] Scientists Consider Brighter Clouds to Preserve the Great Barrier Reef 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].<mailto:[email protected].> To post to this group, send email to [email protected].<mailto:[email protected].> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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]<mailto:[email protected]>. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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.
