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by offsetr 2735 days ago
Throw a chunk of steel/iron into the sea
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Is this a joke or the idea is that the iron will be like a fertilizer to algae that will sequester more carbon and die and sink to the bottom?

(Is it posible to use raw mineral ore? The production of steel/iron use a lot of carbon.)

No its not a joke there's multiple processes one of which is the algae fertilizer. It's a very efficient carbon sink.
It looks like a joke, so it was downvoted when I saw it. It remembered some project to add iron to the sea, so I hoped that it was a serious proposal.

Try to avoid onliners, it's very easy to misinterpret them. (Bonus points for a link to Wikipedia or somewhere with more details.)