From: hal@finney.org
Date: Wed Nov 29 2000 - 09:32:09 MST
Daniel Usg, "Technotranscendence", <neptune@mars.superlink.net>, writes:
> Small scale projects, such as flooding the East African Rift Valley, have
> been discussed here before. I'd like to focus on such "poor man's"
> macroengineering.
Another idea, somewhat less ambitious, is to seed the southern oceans
with iron in the hopes of triggering a plankton bloom which will take
up atmospheric CO2 and fix the global warming problem. Wired had a long
article on one such proposal in the November issue, online at:
http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.11/ecohacking.html.
Hal
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