At 05:49 PM 10/25/00 -0400, jim bell wrote: > >My back-of-the-computerized-envelope calculation shows that it would take >5900 metric tons (2200 lbs) to load a volume of 100km by 100km by 100 meters >of water with 100 nanomolar level of iron ion. (weight counts only that of >iron, not the anion.) Big supertankers hold approximately 400,000 tons of >oil, which happens to be much less dense than iron oxide. > >I haven't read much on the results of the experiment done, but my impression >is that this kind of iron fertilizing is very much worth doing. > >Jim Bell The performance-art potential for drawing with plankton blooms in the ocean (for imaging by satellites) boggles. Anyone have Christo's number?