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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: combjelly who wrote (88428)8/11/2018 1:08:38 PM
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I tried cracking shellfish shells a few months ago. You are right that hypotheses can be tested. Those shells were as tough to crack as 60 years ago. So the theory that ocean acidity is wrecking shell production is false.

In fact the amount of CO2 in the top 10 metres of the ocean is not a problem but a solution as CO2 eaters love having plenty of CO2 available. In some areas other nutrients such as iron are in short supply, same as on land, but more CO2 means more biological production.

Sequestering CO2 in the ocean hasn't been done deliberately. There's no limit to how much can be piped 400 metres down from power stations.

I invented that idea in BP Oil 1986, told some visiting Mitsubishi engineers how to do it and how it would work and the economics. Mitsubishi patented the idea a couple of years later.

If CO2 ever does become a problem, which still seems unlikely a third of a century since I started watching, that's a solution.

Meanwhile megatons of carbon are being buried in sediment where it will stay for so many thousands of years we can ignore it.

The ocean is enormous and our CO2 production is tiny.

Venezuela has vast stores of Orinoco goo that would be good power station fuel with the CO2 piped 400 metres under the ocean as a liquid. The added cost would be about 20% (back of envelope calculation 30 years ago)

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