Carbon Flux

It is likely that GHG flux out of the atmosphere needs to be hastened in order for most complex life to survive. A large number of promising means of achieving this hastening exist, but they are being utterly neglected by investors and governments in favor of projects which show very little substantial promise, such as facilities devoted to mechanical Direct Air Capture of CO2. This project would research promising approaches, generate media about them to dissuade people from the notion that “geoengineering” is a monolithic category that can simply be disregarded, and with sufficient resources, begin to do research and demonstration projects for some methods that seem particularly likely to be impactful. The initial subset of approaches we would investigate are genetic engineering and ecological manipulations related to methanotrophic bacteria, enhanced weathering, increased photosynthetic efficiency, desalination and transport of water to low-vegetation terrestrial landscapes to generate significant new biomass, ocean fertilization both through direct seeding and through assisted upwelling in regions where nutrients are currently sequestered on the ocean floor, and enhanced weathering.