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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (65)11/26/1997 1:29:00 AM
From: A.J. Mullen  Read Replies (2) of 407
 
It would be great if we could bury organic material where it couldn't get oxidised, but we're talking gigatonnes. The transportation of that would pose its own problems, and must be buried securely for a geological period.

A few years back there was a suggestion that part of the ocean around Antarctica was limited by iron. This is needed by plants in trace amounts. It was suggested that large quantities of iron might allow phytoplankton - marine plants - to bloom, and that a significant amount of this 'new production' would sink to the ocean floor where there is insufficient oxygen to combine with. It was suggested that fleets of cargo ships might dump crushed iron ore sufficient to affect the CO2 balance.

An experiment was conducted. A large quantity of iron was dumped in an area thought to be prime. The results were disappointing. The increase in growth was less than had been expected, and the iron was lost from the crucial photosynthetic zone faster than expected.

To some extent maybe we can help the less developed bypass some of our past excesses. I'd bet that China's steel mills are more efficient than early American ones, which were better than the first British ones. Nevertheless there is a clear relationship between per capita gross product and per capita energy consumption. We need to find more things that are accepted as adding value to life without consuming much energy; like computers, CD's, and televisions. Let's hope the newly affluent go for those more than for cars and air travel, which add value to my life anyway, but create problems for all.
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