----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen A. Lawrence" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Sunday, February 18, 2007 12:55 AM Subject: Re: [Vo]: Russ George challenges Branson on ABC ... > Haven't been following this thread closely ... but a number of years ago > someone tried the experiment of seeding a small area of the ocean with > iron; it caused an immediate algae bloom. Apparently it's in short > supply. At that time it was proposed that bombing the oceans with iron > would suck a lot of CO2 out of the air. The problems with such an > approach, if actually tried on a large scale, are likely to be pretty > horrible, though, or so I would guess. ...
Hence the idea of harvesting the excess algae on the fly (whales thread), we don't want our blue planet to change color. Michel
