the biggest pitfall to making non-fossil natural gas from the ocean, is the use of chemicals or minerals that may have unintended consequences when scaled to billions of tons.

as AP rightly pointed out in it's timely and insightful article, is capturing CO2 from the ocean a climate solution or simply ocean dumping?the ocean captures more CO2 than all of our terrestrial land surface area combined (see CSIRO data in the comments section below);

as our oceans holds 60 times more carbon than the atmosphere and absorbs 25 to 30% of all human-driven CO2 emissions.

some key take-aways from the post (also included in the comments section below);

✍ our oceans absorb CO2 and heat by far in quantities that does not have the problems of land/space limitations, impact on communities, economic opportunity costs of land.

✍ scientists are uneasy and conflicted; as the effect of adding large quantities of chemicals and minerals such as sodium hydroxide, magnesium oxide, into our oceans are largely unknown.

✍ sinking sequestered CO2 in the form of seaweed or woodchips to extreme depths in exchange for carbon credits, faces another dimension where public perception of "engineering" the climate triggers strong emotional response from communities.

✍ the technological readiness (mature TRL) for using CO2/carbon and hydrogen to produce non-fossil natural gas has been proven for decades. For example; Sabatier methanation.

✍ this is the same (mature TRL) for production of renewable hydrogen (H2) from seawater and the industrial pool of vendors that manufactures ocean current turbines to provide all that renewable electricity (for H2).

✍ unless no "new" chemicals and minerals are added into the ocean as part of the carbon sequestration process; using ocean energy, hydrogen & dissolved CO2 to make non-fossil natural gas will be costly, risky and environmentally uncertain.

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