Algae Rock!

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• evilcultist@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Would’ve been better if you had used a photo with an actual tree instead of a rock.

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  • Frozengyro@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And an actual algae instead of a great wall of China

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    • lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Yeah, who is this guy, anyway?

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• deegeese@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  No algae ever kept me cool in the shade on a sunny day.

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  • someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Wise men plant algae whose oxygen they will never breathe?

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  • IzzyScissor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They have for me - albeit I was swimming in an untreated lake at the time.

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  • v4ld1z@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yea sure, keep bragging about your height

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    • lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Plankton? Is it you?

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  • ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    No, but maybe we can make that happen.

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• Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  I thought it was more like 70%. You’re doing algae bad here.

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  • TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    to be fair I am currently failing algae bruh

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    • Neon@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      I’m also failing algeaebra, don’t worry

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• someguy3@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Sounds like we need to genetically engineer super algae.

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  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    That is already happening iirc

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    • painfulasterisk1@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Image

      Something like this?

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• SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Technically speaking, trees are just structures that evolved to hold up that same algae anyway.

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• DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Also, there’s a bunch of ways to make Algae blooms in the ocean. Apparently even just dumping a bunch of iron dust in the ocean would cause lots of algae blooms - but we don’t do it.

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  • SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Yes, because algae blooms are usually bad for everything but algae. Red tide is a bad thing.

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    • frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Fun fact, depending on your definition of “fun”. Deniers sometimes argue that plants will just grow to absorb the extra co2. This doesn’t work in general, because most plants aren’t limited by co2 availability. There are some exceptions, and the algae that causes red tide is one of them. So we have that to look forward to.

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    • nettle@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      And bad for everything but the algea is bad for the ecosystem the algea relies on to live

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  • denial@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Because it has a lot of side effects and the oceans are under a lot of stress because of climate change already. So for the moment we don’t fuck with it.

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    • ayyy@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      How about instead we dredge reefs for a tiny amount of lithium. That seems like a good compromise.

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    • DarkCloud@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      So when we say Climate Change is an immediate and irreversible threat… There’s another clause there that’s something like: but not to us right now as a species, more to the biodiversity that would be put at risk if we tried producing more Algae? So we’re not going to address the “immediate and irreversible threat” in that way, because it might upset other things in the ocean.

      Would those other things be stuff like… Er… Important stuff. I’m just not sure about this stuff because I don’t know that much about Climate Change in relation to Algae and Oxygen production.

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  • Lyrl@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    To work as a carbon capture mechanic, iron fertilization-driven algae blooms would have to die and sink to the bottom of the ocean, thus locking up their carbon in oceanic rock.

    The concern is they would die and float, releasing all that carbon back into the atmosphere via decomposition gases. Then we would have all the effort of the fertilization, all the ecosystem disruption of the algae bloom, and maybe negative benefit as far as carbon since the ecosystem disruption could mess up carbon sinks that were actually working.

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  • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    for the same reason that blue cheese is only partially moldy, if it’s all mold then there’s no cheese left and it all becomes rather unappealing.

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• EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Well, they also have 70% of the earths surface while trees only have 30%

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• Zuzak@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Algae rock? Yeah, what about it? Image

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• seven_phone@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Rock Papa Swingers.

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• Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Trees capture more carbon though

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