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S3 - EP9: The Future of Carbon Drawdown (with Dr Gabrielle Walker)

Jon Richardson and the Futurenauts

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The Rise of the Carbon Removal Industry

The basalt rocks naturally take up carbon dioxide but unfortunately they take a very long time to do it like of the order of 10,000 years so that's not very helpful for us over the next 20 or 30 years. But you can accelerate that process with advanced enhanced weathering which is what we're doing now. It also delivers extra minerals to the soil and then when it washes off into the sea it can even help to neutralize the acidification of the ocean. Gabriel: "It's a really clever one all around and it's just being explored"

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