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Carbon recyclers: Sulfur bacteria break down organic substances in seabed
- wglb 2y agoPaper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads5631 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ads5631
- 0cf8612b2e1e 2y agoDoes this mean the plans to sequester carbon in biomass dumped into the ocean will not work? Or would be significantly less effective than hoped?
- pfdietz 2y agoWho was planning to dump biomass in the ocean? In any case, CO2 injected into the deep ocean is still pretty much sequestered.
- xhevahir 2y agoSeaweed farms. The seaweed would fall to the ocean floor, where some hope it could sequester lots of carbon.
- pfdietz 2y agoThat wouldn't be buried, so I don't think there was any hope it wouldn't be eaten and oxidized. So the plan there was always to use the biomass as a CO2 pump, not as a means to sequester reduced carbon in sediment.
- human_person 2y agoIt depends where it’s dumped. I think a lot of people are looking into dumping it into high salinity anoxic basins based on finding carbon with a long residence time there.
- aaron695 2y ago[dead]