Andrew,
Ocean Macroalgal Afforestation is more of a concept revival with better technology and increased urgency than a new idea. The paper is vetted by co-author David Chynoweth, who has decades of research on seaweed to energy. I confess to alsobeing a co-author.
You hit thekey question: At
Poster's note : Below I've taken the liberty of presenting Steve's
email in the format familiar to list users. Both papers are linked,
with abstracts presented.
Direct link to Steve's full paper (PDF)
http://www.phil.washington.edu/POV/documents/GardinerDesperationArgumentFINAL.pdf
The
For recent PhDs.
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Subject: [DISCCRSnews] DISCCRS: Climate Change Research Symposium
From: Ruth Ladderud ladde...@whitman.edu
Date: Wed, January 09, 2013 9:23 am
To: Disccrs news disccrsn...@aslo.org
*** please distribute ***DISCCRS VIII Interdisciplinary
Methane is flared around the world by the oil industry as a useless by
product. Such flaring is generally limited by environmental
legislation rather than the existence of viable markets. Even
reasonably large methane sources close to population centres are
flared off, such as in the Niger
Andrew,
Yes.Scaling the floating (or submerged) shipping , storage, and gas-to-liquid conversion facilitiesmay limit how fast we can getOMA toreplace all fossil fuel use and reduce atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Luckily, OMA is unusual in that it is sustainable at the necessary scale to justify
I am joining this discussion late, so I hope I am not covering ground
already discussed.
Some years back a graduate student and I looked at a conceptual scheme to
grow algae and sink them into the deep ocean, using increased salinity from
evaporation as the “pump”. We found that the rate
