[HN Gopher] Ocean Gyre
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Ocean Gyre
Author : dedalus
Score : 29 points
Date : 2024-07-31 13:52 UTC (3 days ago)
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| cynusx wrote:
| They're the solution to climate change also.
|
| The center is infertile and can be seeded with fertilizer and
| algae that can then die off and sink to the bottom of the ocean.
| the_sleaze_ wrote:
| Citation? Everything I've seen about algal blooms for carbon
| sequestration has flamed out on second order examination
| blackeyeblitzar wrote:
| This is a bit meta but does it need to have a citation? Can't
| it be educated speculation that is yet to be explored?
| HunterWare wrote:
| Ok fair, but in that case isn't it missing the words "I
| think" prepended to the factual assertion.
|
| As in: I think it's missing the words "I think" from that
| statement. (Which is educated speculation on the statement
| that has yet to be rigorously explored)
| the_sleaze_ wrote:
| Please believe me when I say I mean 'Citation?' in an
| excited, please let this not be too good to be true, I
| haven't heard this great news and deeply desire another
| (a?) strong contender in the direct carbon capture space -
| especially aqueous - capture, way.
| jbernsteiniv wrote:
| Conjecture should be backed up with evidence or at least a
| good hypothetical (possibly several) at the very least.
| bluenose69 wrote:
| There's a ton of literature on the ideas and the caveats.
| Perhaps https://web.whoi.edu/ocb-fert/scientific-literature/
| will be a useful, although somewhat dated and limited,
| introduction to the fertilization idea.
|
| Another idea is to alter the pH of the ocean.
|
| These topics are not at all simple. They are active areas of
| research in labs across the world. They have been since the
| 1980s, and I would not say the solutions are around the
| corner.
|
| A somewhat new feature in all of this is that venture
| capitalists are getting into the picture, hoping to make
| money from developing solutions to the climate-warming
| problem. Their influence makes it a bit hard to judge what
| methods might work best. And experts in the field have a
| right to be ambivalent about receiving research funding from
| groups that benefit from hiding successful results until
| patents can be established.
| turtledragonfly wrote:
| Reminds me of this cool article, about sea turtles and the North
| Atlantic Gyre: https://www.fisheries.noaa.gov/feature-
| story/secret-route-se...
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| Apparently, many turtles spend some of their youth in the
| Sargasso Sea, in the center of the gyre, which has a lot of
| seaweed shelter and biodiversity, and is warmer. Then they leave
| when they're stronger.
| PeterCorless wrote:
| It is astounding to me to have so much information on our globe
| and how it works and then to go to TikTok and see the flerfers
| (flat earthers) with a 1,000 people in a live.
| nappingbat wrote:
| Flat earthers do not exist.
| amelius wrote:
| Alternative facts.
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