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Here's a bad idea.

You'd have to dump in quite a lot, though. Try 4 billion tons. Per year. Over decades.

Even assuming its ecological side effects are relatively benign (a big "if"), the scheme has little chance of being implemented, according to Ken Caldeira of Stanford University's Carnegie Institution, who described the plan as "unrealistic" and a mere "theoretical possibility."

While we're about it, let's dump several thousand tons of iron filings in the ocean every year to enourage algal growth and sequester yet more CO₂. That's been proposed before too, y'know!

Not only proposed but actually tested.

Hello EnviroMan

That system actually works very well, and is an ecologically sound method.

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You've just got to ask why Shell Oil is proposing that idea.

There's just got to be money, lots of it, for them, if that nutty scheme goes ahead.

I note that Shell proposes to use "limestone from sites adjacent to gas and oil wells", sites which are under the control of Shell, of course.

Ecologically unsound idea, entirely.

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