> if we fertilize patches of the oceans
Don't we do it already with wastewater streaming down from fields, pipes, rivers...?
Don't we do it already with wastewater streaming down from fields, pipes, rivers...?
Even if the goal was to store CO2 and we didn't care about anything else, the method has additional problems. With nothing living in dead zones except for algae, the methane gas produced by decomposing dead algaes has a high risk of rising to the surface.
And yes, if the winds blow the Saharan dust over large oceanic surfaces algae do grow in otherwise "desert" waters and some of the generated biomass does sink deep.