Comments on: Injecting an Alkalinizing Agent Into the Ocean To Offset 10 Years’ Worth of Acidification of the Great Barrier Reef https://scitechdaily.com/injecting-an-alkalinizing-agent-into-the-ocean-to-offset-10-years-worth-of-acidification-of-the-great-barrier-reef/ Science, Space and Technology News 2024 Thu, 18 Jan 2024 16:04:53 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Rdbyrne https://scitechdaily.com/injecting-an-alkalinizing-agent-into-the-ocean-to-offset-10-years-worth-of-acidification-of-the-great-barrier-reef/#comment-618119 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 22:23:18 +0000 https://scitechdaily.com/?p=124669#comment-618119 Why does this sound like a zombie movie plot?

]]> By: Theresa M Truesdell https://scitechdaily.com/injecting-an-alkalinizing-agent-into-the-ocean-to-offset-10-years-worth-of-acidification-of-the-great-barrier-reef/#comment-617957 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 01:40:39 +0000 https://scitechdaily.com/?p=124669#comment-617957 In regards to Clyde’s response. This process is to remove 10 Years of global carbon emissions. While the process to start and finish the alkalinization would likely be short. At this point in the climate change game something needs to be done. Research has to be thorough and statistics accurate, but sometimes more action is nessasary.

]]> By: Clyde Spencer https://scitechdaily.com/injecting-an-alkalinizing-agent-into-the-ocean-to-offset-10-years-worth-of-acidification-of-the-great-barrier-reef/#comment-617500 Tue, 08 Jun 2021 20:08:41 +0000 https://scitechdaily.com/?p=124669#comment-617500 Let me summarize this: The plan is to mine, process, transport, and deliver 30,000 tons per day of olivine.

The mining requires explosives, which release CO2 and nitrous oxides. The crushing, screening, benificiation, and loading onto trucks will use electricity, produced elsewhere, possibly using coal. The trucks will use diesel fuel to deliver the olivine to the shipping port(s). The ships will use bunker fuel to transport the olivine, with auxiliary power to remove the olivine from the ship’s hold and dump in the ocean. All of those operations will release CO2 locally, near the GBR.

Has anyone looked at the carbon balance and the monetary costs?

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