[Terrapreta] Another promising carbon capture technique

[Duane Pendergast]

Another version

http://www.netl.doe.gov/publications/proceedings/01/carbon_seq/2b2.pdf

Duane

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this is very cool.  i was just today telling doug clayton that nature's 
other principal pathway to capture carbon from the air is to convert it into

carbonate.  a major chunk of this is making shells for exoskeletal organisms

ranging from microbes in the sea (including coral) to mollusks and 
crustaceans and on up into bones of large animals.  a lot of carbon is 
concerting to shells of sea creatures, which then die and form sediments on 
the sea floor, which become fossilized as limestone.  i told doug to look 
out for a technology to capture carbon as carbonates.