good, now they just need to stop burning things to run the machine

Bullshit?

please no more in Florida

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not casually friendo.

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not casually.

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reword it as fits your sensibilities ; the point remains.

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not fun to squeeze a watermelon out of a vagina. not to mention 9 months of unrestrained fattening.

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Nope Nope Nope. i'll stick to paying for the whelps and other daddy duties. way better.

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You may have said "all of the above," but you started with "Jesus fucking christ," and said that there are people "moaning" about the danger to the ocean. And let's be clear, there are so far no comments about ocean acidification on this post—meaning you can only be referring to the reasonable measured caution that's expressed in the article. You followed that with "Let's go!"

Taken all together, you're projecting a very "whole hog" picture here.

Please see my “all of the above” phrasing. No one is suggesting “whole hog” anything. One scientist was quoted in the article saying the chemistry is elegant and innovative. Anything even remotely “elegant and innovative” deserves evaluation, improvement and investment. If we only focus and invest in efforts at reduction and conservation we are doomed by short term thinking and incumbent interests.

If acidified.

Question is, where are they getting the sodium (Na)? If they expect to take it from abundant salt (NaCl), then they are left with an excess of acid. That acid either needs to be stored perpetually, or it will eventually liberate the CO2 (as you say)

If there is some natural source of NaOH (a strong base) somewhere, then the CO2 can be sequestered. However, I have never heard of a caustic mine. If they plan to take it from something neutral like salt, then they have an acid storage problem.

The alternatives are potassium (K), calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg), but similarly, they are naturally found as salts, in combination with acids that we would rather not release.

Irish soda bread FTW.

Do you understand that ruining the ocean because we jumped whole hog into something without analyzing it will also kill us?

explain japan then?

But owls will deafen us with their incessant hooting!

Not fast enough. We need to invest into solutions made by men, like blocking the sun and carbon capture, otherwise we're screwed.

By comparison to? The USA at least tries and often fails versus just not trying at all. Also, the USA's record on a lot of stuff is really crappy. Why would I want the USA to do more crappy things like support a China brokered deal that ignores human rights?

Jfc. We are making the climate unliveable for ourselves and need an “all of the above” strategy, yet people are moaning about hypothetical changes to future ocean acidity. Let’s go!

I need to sell my baking soda stock.

Baking soda, that degrades into CO2...

Also, when the oceans do it, they become more acidic, which is a big problem.

Fantastic, now do it en masse and we'll never have heartburn again.

Can’t seem to find anything online about its construction but my hometown is Beaumont CA. It wasn’t a big reservoir by any means but it was a good addition to the cities already pretty good flood management. We’d have the occasional mudslide but for the most part during heavy rains despite being in a valley we never had flood damage

I always knew Baking Soda was the miracle powder.

From the fourth paragraph:

> Nature does this – forests and oceans, for example, are valuable carbon sinks – but not quickly enough to keep pace with the amounts humans are producing. So we have turned to technology.

I was asking where it was located. I'm curious because it's a tough situation to solve, considering the lack of space in the areas where they're needed.

There's been talk since the 80s about excavating a large part of the Sepulveda Basin, which would be perfect as far as location on the LA River and already having a dam there, but there's a golf course there, so obviously that can't be done.

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