How to capture 2 billion tonnes of CO2 AND fix our oceans.

CO2 is distributed in the athmosphere all around the globe... removing it from the ocean and air in a few single places is not going to fix the negative effects of CO2 emmisions in my oppinion. let's remember that CO2 is also found naturally around us, not just generated by human processes. With those co2 removal techonoliges you are also removing natual co2. i think the co2 capture should be done at the polluants: big factories, coal/oil electricity producers, cars, farms etc. removing 100 tons of CO2 is not equal to emiting 100 tons of CO2 simply because you capture and emit it in different places. i am not a scientist but this is my oppinion

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Thanks for raising awareness. Save our planet and ban fossil fuels. An inhabitable planet depends on it, convert to total solar energy, solar panels, hydro electric dams, EV cars, mandatory banning fossil fuels in all industries and manufacturing, implementation of wind mills across globe. Safe threshold of 270 parts CO2 per million to mitigate normal and healthy air quality to be possible. Currently we have exceeded the intolerant threshold to almost 400 parts per million ( 400 Co2 ppm ). Pre industrial level in the year 1800 was 270 ppm. Heat trapping greenhouse gases will cause more wild fires across the globe planet and will get worse, won't be as hot as planet Mercury but in another 300 years it will be within the same temperature range as planet Mercury. Planet Mercury which is closest planet to the Sun also contains greenhouse gasses, however made up other sources and similar to the elements in fossil fuels that we emitted. So the way we're headed if we don't address global warming it will be like planet Mercury here😮

Do u mean like a brane after desalination process?

Why can't we use the Algae for something useful...

What the average people can do with algae for their family and pets emission?

Can we grow algae at home or yard?

Wonderfully positive.

My problem is I like carbon, I'm made of the bloody stuff I eat it when I can afford to.

And 418.43 ppm is a lot lower than what it was. 4000ppm to 6000ppm Before crustaceans grew shells. That's why it fell. You want to suck up more carbon? EAT SHELLFISH keep the shells, and grow some more shellfish. They initially took Co2 from the above down to 180ppm. And 130ppm is death for plants.
No plants no food for plant eaters, and eaters of plant eaters. Food for thought folks. Well I live in hope 🙂 Have fun, were a long time dead. And no one so far has failed the exam. OK,, OK apart from Christ. But one complainer out of how many???? hardly counts as normal does it?

In any advertising campaign it'd be a glorious success.

I was thinking about the potential of using coccoliths, algae that produce calcium carbonate shells, with sequestration of the solid material as a carbon think. Nice to see that there are somewhat similar idea implemented

You can just eat it after it absorbs CO2. Many cultures in the world eat seaweed.

They ought to pyrolyse it to make terra preta. The heat produced could be used in some process

Better to grow huge tracts of hemp, the fibre can be used for bricks and clothing and the roots remain in the soil creating a habitat and nutrients for micro fauna and allows for better water absorption to enrich the soil to further increase crop yields

Human made ponds.

Shifting loose sand exposing the sequestered algae comes into question  allowing re-exposed CO2 to return to the atmosphere. As proof of this process occuring, has anyone ever seen a sand dune formed by wind shifting sands by scrubbing the sand from there to concentrate the cover sand over there?

thank you i enjoyed your video, my minds been racing away on how we can live with not only off grid living but also figuring out how off grid we can get with all of todays tech. with algae you can achieve alot of your off grid living needs. the carbon credits you described has further given my idea a feasible way to live off grid and may even give us a way to earn a living doing our bit to our planet thank you for your knowledge and the others willing to share it.

Can the newly grown marine algae help to reverse the advance of desertification ? .

CO2 removal equals economic suicide followed by massive amounts of people starving to death, do the math. There is only 0.041% of CO2 in our atmosphere, up 25% from 180 years ago. More than 80% of that increase is due to natural processes and it is BENEFICIAL TO OUR PLANET, LIFE IN GENERAL AND HELPS ENDING WORLD HUNGER !!!

Fighting climate change with CO2 sequestration, and then burying biomass in a currently arid region. Do we know it will stay that way for the next 10-100k years?

Want to take carbon from the atmosphere, grow some plants! Do you realize that without carbon in the atmosphere, we all die. To grow food you need carbon. Everything recycles.

I wonder if this is repeatable in more temperate climates without massive logistical costs maybe we lock it in big old boxes lmao

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It looks good and government all around the world should invest in these if we want our children to live.

Can someone explain why reforestation is not a focus? We see many carbon capture projects and i appreciate this example applies to land of minimal calue but why focus on man made efforts to replace trees that have evolved over millenia?

Wonderful stuff. Why isn't Australian Labor party picking this up

Sounds very promising - potentially redemptive and none to very few downsides. That said, I think it would be better to dispose of the sequestered carbon in deep oceanic trenches where it will most likely become subducted into the deep earth for several million years until re-emitted into the atmosphere via destructive plate-margin vulcanism. Much more costly but equally more secure.

In addition to this (relatively) modest carbon capture we must not fail to make massive reductions in our emissions. Except that of course we will fail, despite the best efforts of the likes of Dave Borlace here, and the rich West/North will be unable to escape the massive surges of displaced people needing a new place to live after being flooded/droughted/starved/driven away from their ways of life. Civilisation will not withstand. Elon will have to take billions of people on his spaceships to Mars. Hah ha!
I am writing from the UK, where the government has just given the go-ahead for a NEW COAL MINE! I have lost that rosy optimism that Dave has been feeding with his news about ways we COULD save ourselves from the coming catastrophe.

Fingers crossed

Stop all the volcanoes from erupting around the planet then you might have a chance

What about using this for making biochar and then use that to increase crop yield.

Sorry to be so negative, but I don't understand how anyone could be burying millions of tons of algae into the desert like something under the rug.

Am sure something could be done with all that matter ? Biofuel ? Animal or human feed ? Anything would be better than putting this away... This is absolutely not sustainable.

Or am I missing something big ?!

Just fertilize the open oceans. Algae will bloom, then the rest of the food chain will take care of itself. Carbon will be deposited onto the ocean floor.

It would be nice if a similar process of rapid algae growing could be developed for coastal areas which aren't desert. Perhaps the dried algae could be buried in peat bogs, where the constant water cover reduces the usual speed of decomposition, or sequestered underneath mangrove swamps, where wet organic matter is already accumulating.

Not going to comment on this vid... because the premise of CO2 causing "global warming" is stupid ... because it has no factual support.... BUT what is happening is marine petroleum oil pollution... this is hastening an Ice Age... yes i know you have no idea... but that is a measurable FACT

Thank you again for researching these amazing technologies and bringing them to us in laymen's terms.
This one sounds very promising indeed.
Schemes like this should be mentioned on news programmes by way of good news, potentially raising more funds.

You do know that if the CO2 content in the atmosphere drops below 150ppm plants start dying don't you? It is currently 400ppm or 0.04% and has been for a very long time. It has been 2000ppm when the world was a lush tropical paradise. Not good for us but the plants loved it. Global warming is not about what it happening to the earth as the earth and the majority of it's flora and fauna cope easily with temperature fluctuations. No, its all about one species. Humans, trying to play god by changing the natural climate changes of the planet they live on. Good luck with the chain reaction that will happen when you start removing CO2 from the atmosphere. 95% of all yearly CO2 production is of natural origins. 78 billion tonnes of CO2 from Uk between 1750 - 2020. 80 billion tonnes from china between 2013 and 2020. good luck with china.

Brilliant Planet wants to capture 2B tons of carbon per year, so what about the other 31B tons being emitted each year? How much energy and time would it take to build a 2B ton/year network? Those berms around the ponds weren't made with legions of people with buckets, they were made with fossil fuel burning equipment made with steel refined with coke. All the concrete uses fossil fuel to make too. It all adds up.

NOTHING LIKE DOING ANYTHING TO KILL PLANT LIFE! NOW GOING TO REMOVE THE MAIN FOOD SOURCES IN THE OCEAN! TO KILL ALL MARINE LIFE! SO NO FISH OR PLANTS TO EAT! GUESS THE ELITE WILL KILL OFF MORE THAN 2/3 OF WORLD POPULATION BY STARVATION!

You're only transforming part of the incoming energy to biomass. Could you simultaneously get some evaporative desalination from the same tanks, without compromising the biomass growth?

As a slide rule era chemical engineer, I would like to hear of the energy and material balance that would be, in my opinion, very revealing about the efficacy of the process. The devil is in the detail and if you are not also in the detail, you cannot find the devil.

Off the cuff, two billion tonnes per annum seems a bit of a stretch.

Great idea. We'll support it. Desalination is an object. The algae is a carbohydrate and can be used to feed or even produce petroleum. It seems a waste to bury such a valuable component.

And after you gather and dry all that biomass, get it real hot in the absence of oxygen, burn the gasses that are driven off, generate some electricity to sell, and end up with pure carbon (aka biochar) to sequester or use as a (permanent) soil amendment.

This sounds like an insane scheme. It remains me of dubious operators who offer to remove your waste rubbish, then fly tip it.
The phrase 'a drop in the ocean' seems appropriate here.

Wouldn't they be better off creating some kind of useful product from the algi? Can this be used to create biomass power rather than just burying it? Far better to burn this to create power than plunder further fossil fuel reserves or deforestation to create power?
Question - do the minerals extracted from the sea just get buried with the algi or is it removed before it's buried? If not what are the impacts of this on the local ecosystem?

And where does it end? When all the cult leaders and cult followers die through a lack of CO2? And all the acultists cark it too?

Easiest solution is you simply leave nature alone and don't eff with it... Man can't fix ANYTHING

2 Billion Tons of CO2 from 40+ is approximately 5%.

What happens if you feed an algae farm with CO2-rich fossil fuel exhaust? Obviously it would be better to eliminate the fossil fuel use, but as a small step, could you get even more carbon capture under the higher fraction of CO2 in the enriched exhaust?