Climate experiment to dump minerals in Cornish sea to absorb carbon

[rangerrebew]

Climate experiment to dump minerals in Cornish sea to absorb carbon
MARCH 4, 2023
By Paul Homewood
 

A Canadian company plans to dump hundreds of tonnes of a mineral off the Cornish coast to slow climate change, despite calls by environmentalists to halt the trial.

The pioneering scheme by Planetary Technologies is designed to remove CO2 from the atmosphere by increasing the alkalinity of the water. The UN climate science panel said last year that removing billions of tonnes of CO2 from the air would be vital for the world to meet the Paris agreement’s goals.

Planetary Technologies will release between 200 and 300 tonnes of magnesium hydroxide in its mineral form, brucite, in St Ives Bay over three months this spring.

Magnesium hydroxide is probably better known as the compound Milk of Magnesia, used as a laxative. Senior company figures are attending public meetings in Hayle and Truro to assuage concerns about the project.

https://notalotofpeopleknowthat.wordpress.com/2023/03/04/climate-experiment-to-dump-minerals-in-cornish-sea-to-absorb-carbon/

[rangerrebew]

 

[catfish1957]

Double stupidity....

Just as with Calcium (similarly +2 valenced) , releasing basically salts of Mg, Ca (CO₃ )will bound into salt carbonates, but pH moves that abrupt will have adverse impact on any fauna or flora life at or near this idiotic experiment. 

Saddens me, that we have so called scientist that are just as stupid as the enviro-whackos themselves.

Man made CO₂ is not a problem, as an atmopheric substance or as an element of climate change

[Smokin Joe]

What authorizes these idiots to go forth and f**k with the planet we all live on?

Call the French. Let them sink the damned boat at the pier. (a la' Greenpeace)

The sad part of this is that with a cooling planet this last decade, they will claim credit for that and do this again!

[catfish1957]

What authorizes these idiots to go forth and f**k with the planet we all live on?

Call the French. Let them sink the damned boat at the pier. (a la' Greenpeace)

The sad part of this is that with a cooling planet this last decade, they will claim credit for that and do this again!

Not sure of prevailing currents around the British Isles, but it isn't that many hundreds of miles from the Dover limestone cliffs, and this could damage the cliff bases on the coast of the channel.  Ca(OH)2 + Limestone = "Poof" Dissolved

[GtHawk]

  I thought the Oceans and Seas already absorbed carbon and released oxygen just fine without some morons screwing with a perfectly fine natural process.

[Fishrrman]

"We'll save the Earth!"
... by poisoning the oceans...

[sneakypete]

Excellent idea!

After all,what could possibly  go wrong with dumping potentially/actually  toxic chemicals into the oceans?