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I know you focus on terrestrial carbon, but what are your thoughts (if any) on sequestration via ocean kelp farming? It appears to beat out forests at rate of
by dogcomplex 4y ago
I know you focus on terrestrial carbon, but what are your thoughts (if any) on sequestration via ocean kelp farming? It appears to beat out forests at rate of growth / drawdown, and there's quite a lot of "unused" area to establish. Like regrowing terrestrial forests, there are many known benefits to local ecosystems from kelp forests - which hopefully can balance out the relative unknowns of mass growth. Nutrient feeding via upwelling in deeper oceans seems viable to feed even very large operations, though I personally don't know what impacts redirecting those nutrient flows might have and I'm not sure anyone does (though I'm inclined to say that shouldn't be a dealbreaker). From what I've seen of the economics, if the crop is harvested (around 10%) for fuel and plastic manufacturing a sequestration farm can be self-sustaining financially.
- pacifist 4y agoI'm afraid that we're going the wrong direction on this. Purple Sea Urchin's(probably from ship ballast) are decimating the kelp forest on the west coast of US. Same with our terrestrial forests only we are the ones doing the damage there. Sorry to be a downer but I'm thinking we're screwed.