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by nomel 66 days ago
Yes. A potential method of capture is to seed the ocean with more iron [1], to help the algae.

I assume that China will be the first to do these sorts of things, since the west will be too hogtied in regulations, lawsuits, and bureaucracy.

[1] https://www.hawaii.edu/news/2026/02/17/ocean-iron-fertilizat...

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China could definitely do this, to offset the minuscule of the destruction they do with the dark fishing fleets around (and possibly in) protected marine areas.
In retrospect that was a rather stupid comment.

It's not like "the global north"/"the West" wasn't guilty of the enormous ecological damage _everywhere_ already.