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Removing carbon via Enhanced Rock Weathering – a primer (alt-carbon.com)
2 points by trojanalert 241 days ago
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To sequester 1 gigaton of CO₂ (about 2.5% of global CO₂ emissions in a year), you’d need billions of tons of rock and an area of land approximately 6 X the size of India (rough, shit calculations, lots of assumptions)

That rock has to be mined, moved and ground to a fine powder, spread over 30milliom kms and then given time to react and hopefully not leech into waterways where it can fuck with alkalinity and ecosystems