Why not remove CO2 from the atmosphere using aquaculture?
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Question by jim m: Why not remove CO2 from the atmosphere using aquaculture?
All of the offending greenhouse gas in the atmosphere could be removed in a few years if plants were grown in the ocean and then harvested and stored or made into fuel. So, why not do that?.
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Its not quite so simple.
All things that live, will die and then decompose (or be burned if you made fuel out of them). This will not eliminate any CO2, it just takes a bit today only to return it to the air tomorrow.The call this carbon neutral, since it neither fixes nor damages CO2 levels. This may be better than continued fossil fuel use (this adds CO2), but its far from a solution.
Then there is of course the economic cost to do this, simply put it may not make money. To do a thing, it must either make make money to support the action (like growing corn). Or be cheap enough that taxes and public funds can pay for it. Such a paln if poorly implemented could put whole countries in the poor house. So it may not be “why not do this”, but instead “what prevents this from being a viable choice”.
This is not a simple issue, if it was it would already be fixed. Marks for thinking though, Carbon neutral is better fro CO2 levels than what we have now. Right now due to economic reasons this can’t work on a large scale. There is not enough public interest and the technology is incomplete and so alternative fuel has too high a cost compared to cheap fossil fuel. However, someday fuel cost will rise enough to make other choices truly cost effective.
dna man
December 26, 2011 at 5:17 am