LOSER Climate Engineering Algae Bloom Climate-change Scheme Doomed.

LOSER Climate Engineering Algae Bloom Climate-change Scheme Doomed.

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Foster City-based Planktos's main goal is to spread iron dust over great swaths of the ocean, where it will feed vast blooms of surface phytoplankton that will suck carbon dioxide out of the seawater, which would later be replaced by carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. The idea behind the iron-...

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:IEEE spectrum 45, 1 (2008).
Main Author: Upson, S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
CO2.
Planktos.
Algae bloom.
Carbon dioxide.
Carbon sequestration.
Climate change.
Cold fusion.
Global warming.
Iron dust.
Iron fertilization.
Marine food chain.
Microscopic plants.
Ocean surface.
Organic carbon.
Seawater.
Surface phytoplankton.