Carbon capture by algal inoculation of ocean ice and/or sea ice

Abstract

The invention features a low cost nature-based carbon sequestering vaccine presenting capacity to restore global Carbon Dioxide to pre-industrial levels over a short, perhaps singly decade use across multiple deployments. This low tech, low cost, high impact, 100% nature based solution is carbon negative during its production and throughout deployment using multiple embodiments that capture and sequestrate carbon dioxide from at least a kiloton approaching a gigaton or beyond scale. The invention uses already developed technologies and biological methods in producing a “vaccine” for inoculating selected unpopulated or sparsely populated geozones with low potentials for disrupting human activities. Embodiments feature deployment of the vaccine into extreme cold environments with minor or non-existent negative externalities. Extremophilic algal cohorts are selectively adapted by growth in serial culture for spreading at sites where the algae growth turns carbon dioxide from the ambient air into biomass that sequesters the carbon for centuries.

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