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Hi Chris, do you happen to know of the optimal ways that Mother Nature removes carbon from the air? Something that we could recreate/automate.
by heimatau 6y ago
Hi Chris, do you happen to know of the optimal ways that Mother Nature removes carbon from the air? Something that we could recreate/automate.
- ogrisel 6y agoI don't know about Mother Nature, but silicate rich (or carbonate rich) rocks weather by sucking C02 out of the atmosphere (or oceans) and it can apparently be accelerated by spreading crushed rocks on fields or beaches. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_weathering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enhanced_weathering - https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/08/spreading-rock-dust-on-fields-could-remove-vast-amounts-of-co2-from-air https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/08/spreadin... - https://projectvesta.org/ https://projectvesta.org/
- harpiaharpyja 6y agoI wonder how many tons of biomass in foliage regrows every single year. All that plant matter is primarily carbon by mass, and most of it probably comes from the atmosphere.