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In a U.S. First, a Commercial Plant Starts Pulling Carbon From the Air (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] 11 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Possible not, you need to maintain the growth conditions for the algae, that has some meaningful energy cost.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (8 children)

    Glass panel over it for greenhouse?

    Can't use more power than carbon skimming.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (4 children)

    I actually helped research this as an undergrad. The problem we'd always face is there are certain microorganisms, like rotifers, that can just decimate a tank of algae. Many rotifer species are parthenogenic, so it literally only takes one rotifer to knock out an entire algae tank.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (3 children)

    What if we genetically modified the algae to be impossible to kill and survive in extreme conditions. Like the algae equivalent of kudzu.

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