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 Stories About: carbon sequestration AND climate AND climate change mitigation AND oceans
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Climos Def
New company wants to seed ocean with iron to sequester carbon |
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05 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 12:24 PM on 05 Mar 2008 Weeks after ocean-seeding company Planktos bit the iron dust, a startup called Climos is plowing ahead with a similar business plan: seed the ocean with iron dust to stimulate the growth of CO2-gobbling plankton, then sell offsets for the sequestered carbon. Climos has announced $3.5 million in venture capital and is backed by reputable investors: Tesla Chair (née Pay-Pal cofounder) Elon Mu ... |
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| Topics: business, carbon offsets, carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, geoengineering, news, oceans (all these topics) |
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Planktos update
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David Roberts |
07 Nov 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Remember Planktos, the company that was going to sail into the Atlantic ocean and dump a bunch of iron ore, hoping it would stimulate CO2 absorption and profit the company via carbon offsets? Well, Andy Revkin brings news that the company has set sail. Guess the cat's out of the bag! (Planktos has been criticized on Gristmill here, here, here, here, here, and by a group of Greenpeace scientists here. Planktos CEO Russ George defended the company here.) |
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| Topics: business, carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, geoengineering, oceans (all these topics) |
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Iron fertilization
A sound plan, or a load of manure? |
JMG |
26 Sep 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Take a look at this conference on dumping iron into the oceans to boost carbon pickup. |
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| Topics: carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, oceans (all these topics) |
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Rule three of offsets: No geo-engineering
Smacking down a bad idea |
Joseph Romm |
27 Jul 2007 |
Gristmill |
| I know you've all been eagerly waiting for this (don't worry, I don't have many more rules). I got sidetracked by last week's offset hearing. Offset projects should deliver climate benefits with high confidence -- that's a key reason trees make lousy offsets, especially non-urban, non-tropical trees. An even more dubious source of offsets is geo-engineering, which is 'the intentional large scale manipulation of the global environment' (PDF) to counter ... |
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| Topics: carbon offsets, carbon sequestration, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, geoengineering, oceans (all these topics) |
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