Re: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results

2011-10-02 Thread rongretlarson
10:47:37 PM Subject: RE: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results I'd be very careful about adding CaCO3 to 0.1M nitric acid, the reaction is strongly exothermic. I'd cut the concentration and volume by 10 - 100x for starters, wear safety glasses and conduct

Re: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results

2011-09-30 Thread Tom Wigley
@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Zhong [shaojun.zh...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 11:23 AM To: geoengineering Subject: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results Greg, Phosphate ions are known to have a strong affinity for the reactive sites

RE: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results

2011-09-30 Thread Rau, Greg
@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results It's a long time since I did anything in this field, so this is some ad hoc thinking. Soil PCO2 is much higher than in the atmosphere. An old paper on this is ... Drake, J.J. and Wigley, T.M.L., 1975

Re: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results

2011-09-29 Thread Rau, Greg
: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results Greg, Phosphate ions are known to have a strong affinity for the reactive sites of calcite and inhibit the dissolution (BERNER MORSE, 1974; MORSE BERNER, 1979) as well as precipitation (MUCCI, 1986) reactions

[geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results

2011-09-29 Thread David Zhong
] Sent: Wednesday, September 28, 2011 11:23 AM To: geoengineering Subject: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results Greg, Phosphate ions are known to have a strong affinity for the reactive sites of calcite and inhibit the dissolution (BERNER  MORSE, 1974

Re: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results

2011-09-29 Thread Rau, Greg
To: geoengineering Subject: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results Greg, Phosphate ions are known to have a strong affinity for the reactive sites of calcite and inhibit the dissolution (BERNER MORSE, 1974; MORSE BERNER, 1979) as well as precipitation (MUCCI, 1986

[geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results

2011-09-29 Thread David Zhong
[shaojun.zh...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 11:43 AM To: geoengineering Subject: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results Hi Greg, Two comments here: Limestone dissolution can be a very slow reaction, even in CaCO3- undersaturated

[geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results

2011-09-28 Thread David Zhong
Subject: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results Hi Greg, Two comments here: Limestone dissolution can be a very slow reaction, even in CaCO3- undersaturated upwelling seawaters. (Much slower than the rate of limestone dissolution in normal rainwater

RE: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results

2011-09-28 Thread Rau, Greg
: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results Greg, Phosphate ions are known to have a strong affinity for the reactive sites of calcite and inhibit the dissolution (BERNER MORSE, 1974; MORSE BERNER, 1979) as well as precipitation (MUCCI, 1986) reactions of calcite

Re: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results

2011-09-28 Thread Tom Wigley
To: geoengineering Subject: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results Hi Greg, Two comments here: Limestone dissolution can be a very slow reaction, even in CaCO3- undersaturated upwelling seawaters. (Much slower than the rate of limestone dissolution in normal

[geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results

2011-09-27 Thread David Zhong
Hi Greg, Two comments here: Limestone dissolution can be a very slow reaction, even in CaCO3- undersaturated upwelling seawaters. (Much slower than the rate of limestone dissolution in normal rainwater, for example) Adding limestone powders to the upwelling seawaters may in fact take away a

RE: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results

2011-09-27 Thread Rau, Greg
this time. No? Regards, Greg From: geoengineering@googlegroups.com [geoengineering@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of David Zhong [shaojun.zh...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2011 11:43 AM To: geoengineering Subject: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already

[geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results

2011-09-26 Thread Oliver Tickell
Re choice of minerals, it must really depend on what is locally available so as to minimise transport costs and emissions - and particularly to include readily available stocks of mine waste, for example from nickel mines, diamond mines. Mine wastes are great as there's lots of them, there is no

[geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results

2011-09-26 Thread Oliver Tickell
Actually this option does not look too bad on first sight - low cost, low tech, so that's a good start, and the chemistry looks right too. Biggest problem is the delay of approx 100y before the results come through, if I read the paper right. That's a long time for us to have to wait. Also if we

Re: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results

2011-09-26 Thread Ken Caldeira
Somebody should do a preliminary cost analysis comparing the cost and effectiveness (and uncertainty therein) for all of these proposals, as a function of setting, discount rate, etc. These options are not alternatives but complements. Doing more of one does not preclude doing more of another.

Re: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results

2011-09-26 Thread Rau, Greg
There is a delay if air capture is the objective - limestone dissolution takes place in the subsurface waters and alkalinity is generated, which can effect air capture only when upwelling finally brings it in contact with air. Gas diffusion rate and CO2 dissolution rate will then also affect the

[geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results

2011-09-25 Thread Oliver Tickell
Hi, I'm familiar with CQuestrate and Tim Kruger, but my understanding is that this is all about kilning CaCO3 to CaO + CO2, then hydrating CaO to Ca(OH)2, then putting that in ocean to react with CO2 to Ca++ + 2(HCO3)- - a net gain of one CO2. The problems are that this is energy intensive, and in

Re: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results

2011-09-25 Thread Ken Caldeira
As Greg Rau and I pointed out more than a decade ago, rather than kilning, power plant flue gases can be used to dissolve carbonate minerals in seawater. If it is placed in seawater dilutely, the time scale for reprecipitation of these minerals should be thousands of years. Whether it is better

Re: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results

2011-09-25 Thread rongretlarson
, September 25, 2011 1:56:13 PM Subject: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results This appears to be one of many ideas to mineralise CO2 using Mg silicate rock using an industrial reaction process. The question has to be, is this necessary or cost effective

[geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results

2011-09-23 Thread Oliver Tickell
Monbiot's real mistake here is to swallow the conclusion of the Royal Society report on the subject, whole and undigested, without critical scrutiny or attention to other sources of information - in particular as regards the weathering of magnesium silicate (not enough Ca silicate to bother with):

[geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results

2011-09-23 Thread Chris
Oliver, In his reference to Dumping lime or calcium or magnesium silicates into the sea..., George Monbiot was referring to the concept put forward by Tim Kruger of Cquestrate - see www.cquestrate.com. Chris Vivian. On Sep 23, 12:40 pm, Oliver Tickell oliver.tick...@kyoto2.org wrote: Monbiot's

Re: [geo] Re: Monbiot Claims SAI already tested ... with catastrophic results

2011-09-23 Thread Rau, Greg
Speaking of mineral carbonation, check out: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10./j.1530-9290.2011.00368.x/abstract ;jsessionid=15DD453CB61D6B1B218D916F13507A2E.d01t01 -Greg On 9/23/11 4:40 AM, Oliver Tickell oliver.tick...@kyoto2.org wrote: Monbiot's real mistake here is to swallow the