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Nostrum AI

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Aug 31, 2019, 6:21:04 PM8/31/19
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How about something like this:


Genetically optimise an oceanic plant species for carbon removal (make it form durable hydrocarbons rather than biodegradable carbohydrates)... then grow it in tanks on land to guard against uncontrollably contaminating the seas? Think designer stromatolites!

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Best wishes,

Nostrum

Andrew Lockley

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Aug 31, 2019, 6:22:07 PM8/31/19
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CarbonDiox...@googlegroups.com is a better place to post this kind of thing 

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SputnikWranglerVtoroi

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Sep 1, 2019, 4:30:31 PM9/1/19
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It's been done, albeit by Mother Nature, not us.  Read up on the Azolla Event, ~49 MYA.  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azolla_event .  Massive plant bloom fueled by nutrient-rich freshwater runoff over the top layer of the entire Arctic Ocean.  Took less than a million years to permanently remove 80+% of CO2 from the air. The world never went back to its former state.

Robert Kennedy, PE
1994 AAAS/ASME Congressional Fellow
U.S. House Subcommittee on Space
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