Yeah I think so.
I wonder how they’d scale something like this up though if it’s a success?
Comment on Project to suck carbon out of sea begins in UK
tetris11@feddit.uk 6 days ago
I like it, it’s a good idea. Im still confused as to what form the carbon takes once extracted. Is it just a solid block?
blackn1ght@feddit.uk 6 days ago
tetris11@feddit.uk 5 days ago
Actually scratch my previous answer, feddit.uk/post/27717775/16774529
tetris11@feddit.uk 6 days ago
To be honest this is the one CC project that sounds easily scalable to me. You deploy one at every beach, taking up a residence or two nearby. Swimmers enjoy the low-CO2 water, and the sea handles the mixing. Burying the carbon might require some work
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
It’s gasuous CO2. The process pulls in water, acidifies it to release CO2 to air in a sealed space, pumps that water to the next phase which adjusts the pH back up to normal, then the CO2 poor water is pumped back into the ocean.
Meanwhile, the CO2 in the previously mentioned sealed space is concentrated up to about 98%, but it’s still a gas. While this may or may not be a more efficient extraction system, it still has the same issue all extraction systems face: what to do with the extracted gas.
Here’s their proposal with the details.
tetris11@feddit.uk 5 days ago
Also, wow:
I thought this was a reasonably quick process, but a year? How do you buffer a years supply of sea water? You either need a massive massive plant, or this does not take in that much
SoleInvictus@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
The water just dilutes back into the rest of the ocean, lowering its average carbon content a minuscule amount. It’ll take a year or less for it to reabsorb as much atmospheric CO2 as was removed. This isn’t a big deal unless it’s done at massive scale in concentrated areas.
An “easy” way to handle this is to return the water to the deep ocean, where it’s less impactful to ocean life and has a much larger area in which to dilute.