Came across some more news on geo-engineering today. Apparently Belgium and other countries are currently testing another example of Negative Emission Technology (NET)
Lab experiments and early on site coast experiments show that olivine rocks (a mineral with an olive green color), basalt etc can get CO2 out of the ocean. When you coat the bottom of an ocean or sea with a small layer of these minerals the weathering process of these rocks extracts CO2 out of the water.
Early experiments show ocean life does not suffer from these rocks, in fact the ocean life environment actually has a positive effect on the weathering of these rocks
That's the experiment in my region. Here's another one abroad, using the same minerals on tropical beaches (the water lapping them up creates a similar effect to what I described above) :
Olivine rocks can readily be dug up from mines around the world. Some by-products of the diamond industry can serve the same function too.
Calculations show that digging up and transporting the olivine rocks to oceans only put a very small dent into the ecological advantage of the olivine rock NET.
The argonne forests were redesigned so to speak in the nineteen twenties. Don't know if this is the result of the action the region saw in WWI, but I guess it's the most likely cause.
Damnit. And I really wanted to pay more taxes so that government politicians could lie to me and tell me they are saving the planet with the extra money they stole from me!
There's still the problem with how long it takes for hardwood trees to grow. Sure, pine grows quick, but the more quality lumber takes much longer.
Some Redwood trees are over 2,000 years old. It takes millenia for these things to grow. And over 96% of the redwoods have been logged.
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