Welcome to the Cquestrate blog
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First day
It’s the end of the Cquestrate website’s first day and there has been an amazing response. It’s been picked up by people in Brazil, Australia, US, Europe and Russia (at least) and there have been some great contributions and messages of support.
The prize for the most thoughtful and constructive post goes to Judith Rosen, with her post under the Environmental Impact Assessment – she is absolutely right, we need to ensure that we thoroughly investigate the complex systems that such a process would affect. Rest assured that that is what we intend to do and our commitment to an open source approach will ensure that we draw on as wide a range of experience, rather than one organisation finding a pet consultant to write the report that they want to read.
Martin, thank you for offering to produce graphics and animations of the process – that’s extremely generous and I’ll be in touch to see if I can take you up on that offer.
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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?
If you are able to help answer any of these questions, please get in touch with us. This project cannot progress without your input.
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