"Hoggle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > > There are numerous ways to remove CO2 from the air permanently without > resorting to either burning fossil fuels or complicated sequestration > methodologies. > > The simplest is to promote the growth of seaborne organisms that turn > CO2 into carbonate shells and then fall to the seabed to form - > eventually - limestone and chalk layers (perhaps even future oil > deposits). Any method that does this can use wave, tide, solar and wind > power easily enough. > > My own idea, derived from the work of an Australian scientist, is to > mass-produce free-floating wave-powered pumps to pump nutrient-rich > cold seawater from the depths of the oceans, allowing oases of life to > form around them and capture carbon on a growing and continuous scale. > > More info here > http://climatechangepolitics.blogspot.com/2006/08/floating-oases-of-sinking- carbon.html For a very similar idea with a different purpose, see this sci.environment thread: http://groups.google.com/group/sci.environment/browse_frm/thread/45c9403e278 3d608/ The author of the paper joined the discussion, and I could send you a copy of the paper if you're interested. Coby --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
