Restricting our scope to NOAC methods, our proposed methods include brightening: cryogenic regions with fresh snow and ice, the ocean surface waters with reflective bubbles, and the euphotic (sunlit) zone of the ocean with biomass, chiefly in the form of additional micro & macroalgae (phytoplankton & the buoyant types of seaweed).

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Surface Brightening
Short DescriptionRestricting our scope to NOAC methods, our proposed methods include brightening: cryogenic regions with fresh snow and ice, the ocean surface waters with reflective bubbles, and the euphotic (sunlit) zone of the ocean with biomass, chiefly in the form of additional micro & macroalgae (phytoplankton & the buoyant types of seaweed).
MethodsEffectsProjects
Bright Water
Adds to ship speed or fuel efficiency via hull lubrication and drag reduction
Uncertain effects upon phytoplankton & zooplankton
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Buoyant Flakes
Carbon biosequestration
Cooling
De-acidification
Global cooling
More fish
Possibility of deep sea hypoxia though needed for biosequestration
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Buoyant flakes made largely from waste materials ultra-slowly release nutrients in continently-remote surface waters to turn the dark blue seas turquoise with phytoplankton and increasing its albedo and that of marine cloud that cools the planet enough to offset current warming
Fiztops
Cooling
Increases evaporative cooling
Protects coral reefs and seagrass meadows
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Small and light, solar-powered Fiztop units inject long-lived nanobubbles into the ocean surface microlayer. These invisibly increase ocean albedo, seawater evaporative cooling, and oxygenation. They offer protection to coral reefs, seagrass meadows, molluscs and mangroves.
Ice Shields/ISA
Arctic refreeze and GHG suppression
Irrigation
Reduce atmospheric methane concentrations in summer
Hazard of ice dam collapse
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Reflecting microbubbles generated in either sea or freshwater can be used to increase cooling albedo or to reduce water loss through evaporation.
Disseminating long-lived, ultra-slow-release, Buoyant Flakes carrying supplementary nutrients over the ocean surface mirrors what good farmers do on land. The flakes are made mainly from plentiful natural and waste materials using simple baking technology. They are designed to provide the iron, phosphate, silica and trace elements most needed by phytoplankton and seaweed to flourish.
A Fiztop (a top-shaped producer of fizzy bubbles) is a floating, lightweight, solar-powered unit designed to generate long-lived, reflective nanobubbles in the sea surface microlayer (SSML).
In colder seasons, sea ice can be thickened by pumping seawater onto it in calibrated gushes so that it: forms semi-permanent, above and below ice polar habitat; enhances albedo; may stably ground the new ice arrays; stabilises coastlines, glaciers and the polar vortex; reduces or converts ebullient methane emissions; increases snowfall and off-planet heat radiation; and sequesters carbon dioxide and oxygen gases in the deep.
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