107. Carbon Capture w/ Algae, Plants Grown in Lunar Soil, Developments for Wind Turbines

<p><a href='https://newatlas.com/environment/brilliant-planet-algae-carbon-sequestration/'>Brilliant Planet plans cheap, gigaton-scale carbon capture using algae</a> | New Atlas (01:08)</p> <ul><li style="font-weight:400;">Direct air carbon capture is currently far too costly – but this London company, Brilliant Planet, says it can do it at enormous scale for a tenth the price, using engineered algal blooms in ponds located near desert coastlines<ul><li style="font-weight:400;">Goals to de-acidify the ocean as well.</li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Direct air capture will need to be part of the decarbonizing equation, and it'll need to be massively scalable, energy efficient and much, much cheaper than today's technology.</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">The idea is to corral and harness the carbon-gobbling power of algae, replicating and maintaining the conditions that cause algal blooms in large, low-density outdoor ponds full of seawater.<ul><li style="font-weight:400;">Algae is an inherently more efficient biological machine for carbon capture than trees or plants</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Its entire surface area is dedicated to photosynthesis and it doesn't waste resources creating trunks, roots or branches</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Another bonus is that it grows and proliferates extremely fast under the right conditions.</li> </ul> </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Simplified process: <ul><li style="font-weight:400;">Account for most of the energy this system requires</li> </ul> <ul><li style="font-weight:400;">A location is chosen, on flat desert land near a coast, </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">A team of bio-prospectors starts filtering through samples of thousands of local strains of algae, selecting the ones that best fits the location. </li> <li style="font-weight:400;">Thus, there are no introduced species, and the algae is already well adapted to the local climate and conditions.</li> <li style="font-weight:400;">They set up a series of pumps, with which to bring se