04-01-2025 18:34 via news.slashdot.org

Can We Make Oceans Absorb More Carbon Dioxide with a Giant Antacid?

If we dissolve acid-neutralizing rocks in the ocean, will it absorb more carbon dioxide?
Climate ventures and philanthropic funders have been spending millions of dollars to find out, reports the Washington Post. "Researchers have been exploring this technology for the last five years, but over the last two months, at least a couple of start-ups have begun operation along the Atlantic and Pacific coasts."Planetary, a start-up based in Nova Scotia, removed 138 metric tons of carbon last month for
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