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Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)
Convection
Ice Thickening
Marine Cloud Brightening (MCB)
Methane removal
Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE)
Ocean Fertilization
Precipitation Control
Stratospheric Aerosol Injection (SAI)
Surface Brightening
Upwelling
Project:
CCR Ice Lab - Uses floating wind turbines, satel
CCR? - Seatomiser units use floating wind turbine
Pending - Uses sulfur dioxide gas emitted from h
Pending - Uses titanium oxide aerosol (TOA) or c
Pending - Buoyant flakes made largely from waste
Pending - Small and light, solar-powered Fiztop un
Pending - Generates microbubbles from ship hulls
Pending - A long, flexibe tube in the shape of a
Pending - A giant, lifebuoy-shaped bladder, fille
Pending - Plan to use patented Stommel pipes that
Pending - Plans to upwell cold, nutrient-rich se
Pending - Create a chimney effect whereby air heat
Pending - Use the vortex effect to create its ow
Pending - Uses titanium oxide aerosol (TOA) plus
Pending - Glider wings anchored in cool, nutriated
Salter Lab - Seawater spraying to generate marin
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Effect:
Adds to ship speed or fuel efficiency via hull lub
Arctic refreeze and GHG suppression
Assist phytoplankton and seaweed growth
AVE is much better than a SUT
Broken fronds increase CDR
Carbon biosequestration
Cooling
Cooling by taking surface heat and humidity to the
Cools ocean surface waters excepting the warmed mi
Could use marine plastic waste for construction
Danger if stop
De-acidification
Eutrophication
Generates highly reflective fog and sea salt aeros
Global cooling
Harvest revenues
Hazard of ice dam collapse
High energy requirement
Increases evaporative cooling
Irrigation
Kelp may be repalced by more valuable and non-buoy
May also use Buoyant Flakes to provide the nutrien
May also use Buoyant Flakes to provide the nutrien
May result in CO2 outgassing
Minor potential to increase ocean flotsam
Mobility
More fish
No monsoon rain
Possibility of deep sea hypoxia though needed for
Possibility of wreckage
Power-limited
Preserve winter ice
Produce more DMS
Protects coral reefs and seagrass meadows
Reduce atmospheric methane concentrations in summe
Remove Short-lived pollutants from the air
Should assist phytoplankton and seaweed growth
Some evaporative potential
Towing by FF-powered vessels is unsustainable
Uncertain effects upon phytoplankton & zooplankton
Warming effect under some conditions
Warming the deeper ocean
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