Michael, The marine dispersal pattern from Fukushima seemed to show a dispersion similar to that of diffusion through gas or water, superimposed upon transport by wind and current. It did not show much in the way of aggregation. This was also the case with the rogue OIF experiment off Canada’s West coast. Moreover, when a patch of loose, floating material enters an eddy it tends to form something that looks like a spiral galaxy, yet there seems to be little tendency to concentrate the material, if anything the reverse. The patterns formed are uneven because the different patches entering the eddy typically do not carry the same identifying material. However, should the entire set of patches entering the eddy be covered roughly equally with flakes, I doubt that one would observe noticeably uneven patterns within the remaining lifetime of the flakes. Concentrations of buoyant material, such as those forming the Great Pacific garbage patch, take years to form. Lesser concentrations from small gyres tend to be dispersed by strong winds.
My flakes *are* a more complete form of OIF. Call it husbanded ocean fertilisation (HOF), where the nutrients cause neither eutrophication nor are largely wasted to the dark depths. Transforming the analogy to land, HOF is fertilisation that remains where it is needed beside the plant roots, causing neither harmful runoff nor aquifer contamination. If the authorities prefer global warming, ocean acidification and extreme weather events to go catastrophic, rather than modelling, cautiously testing, and implementing those climate engineering techniques that show good promise, modest risk and potential profitability, then they will deserve the people's wrath and bitter regret that follows. Unfortunately, such irresponsibility and delay will not allow most of the biosphere to survive. If the IMO, CBD and LC/LP folks cannot take adequate account of these existential threats, then they should hand over the responsibility to a body than can, as is suggested on page 37 of Grant Wilson's paper http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2312755 or by his other option, *“World **Commission on Climate Engineering”, detailed by Parson and Ernst.* Regarding your royalty payment objections, Island and other states are already charging foreign fleets fees to fish in their territorial and EEZ waters. They also often charge local fishers with fishing licence fees. Furthermore, as a fisherman would you not strenuously object to another vessel taking advantage of the burley you had distributed to catch the fish attracted to it, thereby robbing you of the fruits of your labour? This is not, in principle, different from being allocated temporary rights to a plume of ocean that you are fertilising and managing under independent scientific monitoring and UN governance. Proper monitoring, governance and, if necessary, insurance would help ensure that your activities did not cause irreparable damage, as well as quantifying the marine enhancement and carbon biosequestration services that you, or the fertilising agent, were providing. Best regards, *Sev Clarke* On Tuesday, September 2, 2014 3:04:21 PM UTC+10, sevc...@me.com wrote: > > Sam Carana has made a good summary of two of my recent concepts that are > designed to address both climate change and ocean acidification at > http://geo-engineering.blogspot.de/2014/08/seven-ocean-fertilization-strategies.html > > Would members consider how the concepts and their supporting technologies > might be: constructively criticised, improved, their effects modelled, be > lab tested, and approved for mesocosm piloting. Full documentation is > available on request from sevcla...@me.com They are made freely > available under Creative Commons (CC BY 4.0) Attribution licensing. > -- 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 geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to geoengineering@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
