Hi Robin, thanks for biting :) You're right but the whales would probably make more fat since we would feed them, and we wouldn't have to draw all of it. And we would keep them in warm to temperate waters anyway, where solar exposure is high, for fast plankton growth rate. In any case if liposuction was impractical we could slaughter them humanely, as we do with cows and other animals we breed, with the added benefit of food production.
Of course the whole process of iron fertilization > algae bloom > harvesting > oil could be done with factory ships instead of whales, or with a combination of both, but using wherever possible biological systems which we would just "catalyse" to do the right thing is likely to be cheaper per ton of removed CO2. Other objections welcome, surely there must be plenty, we can't possibly have solved simultaneously global warming and the world's energy problems, not to mention whale depopulation, just like that ;-) Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robin van Spaandonk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Saturday, February 17, 2007 9:26 PM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Re: RC'd CO2 harvesting whale herds (was: The $25 Million Branson Climate Prize) > Unlike some humans, whales have developed their blubber layer for a reason. > Being warm blooded they need it to survive low temperatures.
