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Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR)

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CDR is removal of CO2 from the atmosphere - an essential basket of technologies for achieving UN IPCC best outcomes to mitigate climate change. This is a community for discussing advances and issues of CDR.

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Project Vesta - accelerated weathering on the beach (www.projectvesta.org)
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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/656269

(This is my first time cross-posting something -- please advise me if I've done anything wrong!)

(crossposter's comment: Personally I suggest checking out the MIT Tech Review article on this first, which gives useful context.)

Taking rock (Olivine) and dumping it on the beach, so that the waves break it down, adjust ocean pH and mineralize the CO₂.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

general background info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbonate%E2%80%93silicate_cycle