Seeing - and agreeing with - your perspective clearly. If you have written about CDR strategies in the past, please link to those posts. And if there are other authors' summaries of possible CDR strategies, please point to them as well. Thanks.
"I really enjoyed reading your latest post! I just added your publication to my recommendations because I love your perspective on Japan/Asia. Looking forward to reading more!"
So you pull a billion tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere… then what? What are you going to do with it? Where does it go? How is it stored? I mean it’s all well and good to have fanciful dreams of geo-engineering the planet… but then what? CO2 is essential to all life… if you strip mine the atmosphere what happens? So many difficult questions…
Look, everything is fanciful when it's unfamiliar — to those of us who've been working on this stuff, it's not fanciful at all. It's just science.
To me the obvious answer for where you stash the carbon is that you put it back where it started: ocean sediments (which is where the fossils in "fossil fuels" began their long transformation into oil and gas.)
Well maybe… I’ve been looking at the mining of minerals from the seabed… and what you propose is in effect the reverse process… the opposition to seabed mining is very strong and I expect much the same for a reverse process…. I mean what even are the environmental effects ??
Unfamiliar things make people uncomfortable. The best time to start familiarizing people with this approach was a decade ago. The second best time is today.
Hope to hear more details. Can I buy a brush-pile incinerator with a carbon-capture flue? Plant deep-rooted native bunch grasses? Contribute to a cutting-edge science lab?
That'll all help, a bit. But you'll get a few kilos of CO2 here, a couple of tons there. To get to *billion-ton* sequestration, you have to look at the ocean. And if you want to put money into the people doing this in a serious way...
It's not that I disagree (quite the contrary); it's that, for what I can see by the side of the world I'm in, people just don't believe in the future and have learnt to see new technologies as menaces
Seeing - and agreeing with - your perspective clearly. If you have written about CDR strategies in the past, please link to those posts. And if there are other authors' summaries of possible CDR strategies, please point to them as well. Thanks.
I have a very specific idea for how you do this safely, cheaply and sustainably: https://oceanvisions.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/PCS-Report_FINAL.pdf
"I really enjoyed reading your latest post! I just added your publication to my recommendations because I love your perspective on Japan/Asia. Looking forward to reading more!"
I couldn't agree more! I touched on some similar points in my newest article if you would like to read when you or anyone else has time.
https://keyurapather.substack.com/p/to-15c-and-beyond
So you pull a billion tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere… then what? What are you going to do with it? Where does it go? How is it stored? I mean it’s all well and good to have fanciful dreams of geo-engineering the planet… but then what? CO2 is essential to all life… if you strip mine the atmosphere what happens? So many difficult questions…
Look, everything is fanciful when it's unfamiliar — to those of us who've been working on this stuff, it's not fanciful at all. It's just science.
To me the obvious answer for where you stash the carbon is that you put it back where it started: ocean sediments (which is where the fossils in "fossil fuels" began their long transformation into oil and gas.)
It's early days, but serious people are doing serious work on it: https://oceanvisions.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/PCS-Report_FINAL.pdf
And of course you won't want to draw CO2 levels down to 10 ppm, cuz then we'll all freeze (not that that's viable anyway.)
Well maybe… I’ve been looking at the mining of minerals from the seabed… and what you propose is in effect the reverse process… the opposition to seabed mining is very strong and I expect much the same for a reverse process…. I mean what even are the environmental effects ??
Just because you can doesn’t mean you should…
Unfamiliar things make people uncomfortable. The best time to start familiarizing people with this approach was a decade ago. The second best time is today.
Deep down most climate activists don’t believe that climate change is an existential threat. If they did, they would have been all in for nuclear.
Hope to hear more details. Can I buy a brush-pile incinerator with a carbon-capture flue? Plant deep-rooted native bunch grasses? Contribute to a cutting-edge science lab?
That'll all help, a bit. But you'll get a few kilos of CO2 here, a couple of tons there. To get to *billion-ton* sequestration, you have to look at the ocean. And if you want to put money into the people doing this in a serious way...
https://oceanvisions.org/donate/
It's not that I disagree (quite the contrary); it's that, for what I can see by the side of the world I'm in, people just don't believe in the future and have learnt to see new technologies as menaces