How shocking the ocean could turn it into a carbon removal powerhouse, ET EnergyWorld X We use cookies to ensure best experience for you

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The Port of Los Angeles is home to a new, high-stakes science experiment. There, a 100-foot-long blue barge is decked out with five rows of oblong, olive-coloured tanks standing horizontally on the bow while midship sits a jumble of large metal boxes, transparent tubes, cisterns and electronics. This incongruous assemblage of technology invented at the University of California at Los Angeles is called SeaChange, and its creators’ ambition is to exploit the vastness of the ocean to remove billions of tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to avert catastrophic climate change.

The ocean is already the planet’s most powerful carbon removal tool. But we need it (or something else) to do more to reach net zero emissions. This startup thinks it has the solution: pulling seawater from the ocean and zapping it to remove and store carbon.

Over the coming months, the pilot project on the barge will suck up a backyard swimming pool worth of ocean a day, passing it through the big blue-gray boxes that house devices

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