A new idea for removing the carbon dioxide from the atmosphere

If you have been reading news articles like this one:

Carbon dioxide presence in atmosphere highest to date

You know that CO2 levels in the atmosphere are rising rapidly.

There have been lots of ideas and inventions to remove the CO2. Several of them were listed in this PopSci article:

How Earth-Scale Engineering Can Save the Planet

Many of these trend toward impossible.

Now there is an idea on the table that may have potential:

Engineered weathering process could mitigate global warming

The article sums up the idea like this:

By electrochemically removing hydrochloric acid from the ocean and then neutralizing the acid by reaction with silicate (volcanic) rocks, the researchers say they can accelerate natural chemical weathering, permanently transferring CO2 from the atmosphere to the ocean. Unlike other ocean sequestration processes, the new technology does not further acidify the ocean and may be beneficial to coral reefs.

The article also mentions this: “That means we may be able to safely and permanently remove excess CO2 in a matter of decades rather than millennia.”

Click here to learn about the effects of ocean acidification:

See also this detailed report: Ocean acidification due to increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide

Learn about the effects of global warming on the Great Barrier Reef here:

For more info see: How Global Warming Works

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