CaptainExplosion said:
Qwark said:
Well the best way is to decrease the amount of CO2 emission and to decrease the emission of acidic compounds.
You can fight the symptoms of coral bleaching by either mixing cold with hot water in the oceans to cool the water, so that the algea (zoöxanthelle) that give coral color have a better habitat. Australia is investing 2.2 billion in big mixers. Decreasing wastewater and chemical waste dumps in oceans in feneral also makes the habit better for Corals and the Algea, so that wouldn't hurt either.
Adding more calcium to the water also works, since calciumcarbonate increases the pH, but you would need the entire coast of dover multiple times. So cutting fossil fuels is really the best way we have.
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/there-s-only-one-way-save-great-barrier-reef-scientists-conclude
https://www.google.nl/amp/s/www.popsci.com/amp/coral-bleaching-water-pipeline
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That's what I thought. Kill the fossil fuels! ^^
And speaking of algae plumes, could we harvest the algae as a fuel source? I've heard of it being done.
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You can win bio oil from Algae, from which you can make plastics, fuels and other carbohydrates. Some algae also produce hydrogen under some circumstances.
https://www.google.nl/amp/s/phys.org/news/2016-10-green-hydrogen-production-algal-proteins.amp
In theory you could use over fertilised water around farms to grow algae in. The algea use the nutrients and using a biorefinery you can win the nutrients back and other compounds like bio oil back. The clean defertilised water, could be injected into the local water system, making that cleaner as a result.
