Environmental Impact Assessment

The process will have impacts on the environment: on terrestrial systems due to mining activities, on atmospheric systems due to the calcining process, on aquatic systems due to disposal of lime into seawater. While it is important to focus on the potential harmful effects of the process, it is important to also determine the potential beneficial effects of the process: reduction in atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations, mitigation of ocean acidification and production of biomass in arid environments.

  • At what concentration can calcium hydroxide solution be added to seawater, so that it has a beneficial, rather than detrimental, impact on the marine environment?

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Eduardo Vargas says: September 4th, 2011

I guess that it would depend on where the lime would be dumped. The lime would probably be best dumped in places where it could store the carbon dioxide at deep into the ocean, so that it would have little chance of affecting the marine life in more higher places.

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