Oceanic Solutions – Introduction & Offshore Wind

Hi Matt, thanks for the comment.

How about seaweed (kelp) forests.

See the earlier post described and linked below, section 3.1.2.

Wet NET: “Have a Plan B, and maybe even a Plan C. Because unexpected changes are most difficult to handle when we don't have a backup”

― Germany Kent, American Print and Broadcast Journalist

Having looked at the subject of climate change quite a bit, there are many ways we can fix this problem, IF we work on it diligently. However humans have a habit of doing really dumb things, like not fixing a big problem we created, one that has already screwed up our climate big time, and is likely to create even worse problems in the future.

Thus, my argument for all of the Plan Bs and Plan Cs we can find.

Most of my readers know that NET stands for Negative Emissions Technology. The title NET are carbon dioxide negative emissions technologies that involve the oceans.

https://energycentral.com/c/rm/wet-net

-John

Thanks for the information, Julian. I will look at these in a bit.

Without reading these, I would guess that the best way to estimate the CO₂ absorption of any plant would be to use a realistic lab test (one that closely simulates the plant's natural environment but in a closed system that can accurately measure inputs and outputs), and then extend this to the monitoring the amount of biomass produced in the natural environment. 

-John

Hi Julian:

I skimmed through the articles. Both are very good, Furthermore, they pointed out a major step I missed in my earlier simple analysis. 

All of the inputs and outputs need to be simulated in a whole environmental system model such that other dynamics can be studied. Although very complex, this work is important in accurately understanding how simple climate changes (like changing mineral-transport and acidification in this case) propagate through the system.

A primary reason for unpredictable future effects of climate change is that it is extraordinarily difficult to model the whole climate, even with the most powerful computing arrays that we currently have. The good news is that these tools keep getting more powerful and adding new capabilities (like Neuromorphic Computing - see the paper linked below).

https://energycentral.com/c/iu/new-neuromorphic-computing

-John