The whole thing starts with imprecise and cultish terminology
Project to suck carbon out of sea begins in UK
A ground-breaking project to suck carbon out of the sea has started operating on England’s south coast.
The small pilot scheme, known as SeaCURE, is funded by the UK government as part of its search for technologies that fight climate change.
There’s broad consensus among climate scientists that the overwhelming priority is to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the chief cause of global warming.
But many scientists also believe that part of the solution will have to involve capturing some of the gases that have already been released.
If we’re talking about CO2, carbon dioxide, term it that way. Calling it carbon is horseshit
These projects, known as carbon capture, usually focus either on capturing emissions at source or pulling them from the air.
What makes SeaCure interesting is that it is testing whether it might be more efficient to pull planet-warming carbon from the sea, since it is present in greater concentrations in water than in the air.
You know, what could possibly go wrong? Also, is the CO2 concentration now higher than it was during previous Holocene warm periods?
The project is trying to find whether removing carbon from the water might be a cost effective way of reducing the amount of the climate warming gas CO2 in the atmosphere.
SeaCURE processes the seawater to remove the carbon before pumping it back out to sea where it absorbs more CO2.
Is it removing CO2 or just carbon, which could end up over-oxygenating the oceans?
The Seacure project has £3m of funding from the government and is one of 15 pilot projects being backed in the UK as part of efforts to develop technologies that capture and store greenhouse gases.
In other words, they’re getting almost $4 million dollars of taxpayer money to screw around.
“If we’re talking about CO2, carbon dioxide, term it that way. Calling it carbon is horseshit”
…Well, CO-2 is plant food.
Also, many marine organisms, especially corals, use CO-2 to build their shells and exoskeletons. Removing CO-2 from the seawater could cause serious environmental damage.
Each carbon dioxide molecule contains one carbon atom and two oxygen atoms. No one is talking about eliminating CO2 from the atmosphere. For a million years CO2 stayed between 200 and 280 ppm, and today it is greater than 420 ppm and increasing. CO2 is causing the Earth to warm.
Fat Jeff,
Your comment on CO2 is wrong. Been proven wrong. General knowledge that it is wrong. But you broadcast it constantly to a group that know it is wrong and that you lie.
Meanwhile, other climate activist scientists propose pumping CO2 INTO the ocean.
https://www.openaccessgovernment.org/article/ocean-nourishment-sequestering-carbon-dioxide-in-the-deep-ocean/187181/
If they want real efficiency, they should co-locate those facilities next door to each other and operate in a closed loop.
It’s almost as if they are just making this up because they know it doesn’t really matter, but they are getting paid to say it.