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Great article - right up to this quote: "And this is also the way forward for us to find solutions for this climatic catastrophe. If you study these natural pr
by dadjoker 3y ago
Great article - right up to this quote:
"And this is also the way forward for us to find solutions for this climatic catastrophe. If you study these natural processes, there's a good chance you will stumble on something that will be actually useful."
- vlovich123 3y agoI feel like that’s just sensationalism to get more media attention. The existing clay is formed by tectonic activity over a long period of time and using lots of energy (ie the earth’s core moving tectonic plates). Any artificial manufacturing effort would require similar energy input and it’s highly likely it requires more energy to create the clay artificially than it was to burn whatever amount of carbon gets sequestered (just guessing based on thermodynamics). So I don’t see how this clay helps us. It might be more efficient to create new clay than our existing recapture techniques although I would be skeptical.
- lainga 3y agoI want to see some numbers. It's just porous mafic rock (i.e. pumice) in the presence of hot seawater. ed. wait, no, it's felsic? but it forms quickly in marine environment... either way, there's a lot of it
- onionisafruit 3y agoYou included only the second part of the quote. The full quote is: "If you want to understand how nature works, you have to understand it on the mineral and grain scale, and this is also the way forward for us to find solutions for this climatic catastrophe. If you study these natural processes, there's a good chance you will stumble on something that will be actually useful." I don't see anything wrong with including Jagoutz's thoughts on this. Maybe you disagree, but including it in the article gives us an idea of the authors' thinking.