Legal Considerations
The process needs to operate within the bounds of the law. There main considerations are:
Intellectual Property
Cquestrate seeks to create an ‘anti-patent’ space around this process by open sourcing the solutions – how can this be made to work most effectively, so that no-one can obtain a patent that could effectively hold the process to ransom?
Environmental Regulation (especially regarding International Law)
The Cquestrate process involves adding large amounts of chemicals to seawater. We need to know what legislation currently prevents this from happening and what steps have been taken to relax the law to permit the addition of beneficial chemicals.
If you can help to answer these questions, even if you don’t have the whole solution, please use the comment box to tell us what you know.