The ocean-waters off of the California Coast are cold. Although this has been a hotbed of surfing almost as long as Hawaii, the surfers today mostly wear wet-suits.
However lately the oceans around Los Angeles have been for a hotbed for carbon dioxide (CO2) removal. I’ve known for many years that much of the CO2 humans pump into the atmosphere, ends up in the oceans and wreaks havoc there. If we start to remove CO2 from the oceans, the oceans will mostly continue to absorb this greenhouse gas (GHG) at volumes close to todays until we get the level mostly down to pre-industrial levels. In the meantime we can use the ocean to absorb and transport CO2.
There are at least two major CO2 removal ventures in Southern California, each was spawned from a major university, and this post will cover their technologies, and pathway to success.