Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

Dimensional Traveler wrote:

On 10/4/2024 11:27 AM, William Hyde wrote:

Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 10/3/2024 10:58 PM, Mike Van Pelt wrote:

In article <vFGLO.120073$WtV9.87808@fx10.iad>,
Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:

This one sounds interesting.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-solutions/2024/09/26/carbon- atmosphere-burying-wood/
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Would take a lot of wood; there are some fast growing but
otherwise useless trees (you-clipped-us, for example) that
would be suitable for this purpose.

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I hesitate to mention hemp (since my impression is that most
of the people pushing hemp are really more interested in the
wacky tabaky variety) but hemp (the non-psychoactive kind)
does have some seriously good points. It's fast growing,
nitrogen fixing, produces what's apparently a good quality
fiber, and if you grow a big excess and bury the excess...
I think it would be pulling carbon out of the air faster
than trees, which are pretty slow growing.
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There may be other plants that are even better at this.

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Seeding the open ocean with iron is also proposed - creates
an algal bloom, which dies and sinks to the ocean floor.

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Only in some areas, with a high silica content.  Otherwise it just dies and rots.

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The ecological side effects are not well studied.

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Still well worth studying, in my opinion.  We should not be leaving any stones unturned.
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IIRC algal blooms happen naturally and they are not pleasant for the local marine inhabitants.  "Oxygen deserts" is a term I remember hearing
associated with these.

True.  And often supplying iron simply means that another essential nutrient limits the expansion.
I'm not sure that in the end this will amount to anything.  But I think we have to study everything.
William Hyde