Brian,Photosynthesis is good only for small scale carbon sequestration unless you somehow avoid sequestering the other plant nutrients (N, P, K, etc.) with the carbon. Terrestrial photosynthesis also requires fresh water, which is another crisis.Mark
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No, unfortunately it doesn’t always happen that the CO2 is converted to
carbonates when you inject it in the subsoil. Only if it is injected in
reactive rocks (preferably olivine-rich) it will be converted to carbonates.
What the Iceland people do is probably somewhat less effective, but is
To geoengineering,
I always notice that CCS seems to attach itself to "bio" and "bioenergy
with" to give itself a natural aura. Is this warranted or greenwashing?
On another occasion when I was critical along these lines Olaf Schuiling
emailed me to say that converting CO2 to carbonates is