The Ocean Is The Next Frontier For The Carbon Removal Industry

Alejandro de la Garza, Time
Wed, 06/28/2023 - 6:52am

Back in 2012, a California businessman sailed a boat into the waters off western Canada and dumped 100 tons of iron filings into the Pacific Ocean. The goal was to to spawn an enormous bloom of phytoplankton, which would take in carbon dioxide as they grew, then die and fall to the bottom of the ocean, presumably locking away the greenhouse gasses, and helping to save the world from climate change. It didn’t go over well.

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