CO2 in air hit new high last year, with scientists concerned natural land and ocean carbon sinks are weakening

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/28875492

Levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere soared by a record amount in 2024 to hit another high, UN data shows, deepening the climate crisis that is already taking lives and livelihoods across the world.

  • pandalus@thriv.socialEnglish
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    11 days ago

    What do you do with the dried carbon? As I understand, you will need some way to store it long-term if you want to take it out of the atmosphere. Otherwise it might (at some point, given enough moisture, but this can already happen under high air humidity) be broken down by microorganisms to CO2 (which incidentally will end up in the armosphere again).

    Anyway, I wanted to mention that I think your hobby is very cool. Algae are amazing, and growing them for carbon capture sounds like a fun project.

    • Inucune@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      11 days ago

      Currently… Paper bag to make it easy to weigh. Trying to sell as fish food to fund the project. I would like to transition to converting it to algenic acid for sale. A bit of funding and I could also probably purchase a better strain of algae to farm than the yellow-green I collected from a pond.