No algae ever kept me cool in the shade on a sunny day.
Algae Rock!
Submitted 3 months ago by Morph9@lemmy.zip to science_memes@mander.xyz
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deegeese@sopuli.xyz 3 months ago
someguy3@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Wise men plant algae whose oxygen they will never breathe?
IzzyScissor@lemmy.world 3 months ago
They have for me - albeit I was swimming in an untreated lake at the time.
ZoopZeZoop@lemmy.world 3 months ago
No, but maybe we can make that happen.
Diddlydee@feddit.uk 3 months ago
I thought it was more like 70%. You’re doing algae bad here.
TriflingToad@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
to be fair I am currently failing algae bruh
Neon@lemmy.world 3 months ago
I’m also failing algeaebra, don’t worry
someguy3@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Sounds like we need to genetically engineer super algae.
SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml 3 months ago
Technically speaking, trees are just structures that evolved to hold up that same algae anyway.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
SkybreakerEngineer@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Yes, because algae blooms are usually bad for everything but algae. Red tide is a bad thing.
frezik@midwest.social 3 months 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.
nettle@mander.xyz 3 months ago
And bad for everything but the algea is bad for the ecosystem the algea relies on to live
denial@feddit.org 3 months 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.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
How about instead we dredge reefs for a tiny amount of lithium. That seems like a good compromise.
DarkCloud@lemmy.world 3 months 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.
Lyrl@lemm.ee 3 months 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.
Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 3 months 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.
EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Well, they also have 70% of the earths surface while trees only have 30%
Zuzak@hexbear.net 3 months ago
seven_phone@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Rock Papa Swingers.
Droggelbecher@lemmy.world 3 months ago
Trees capture more carbon though
evilcultist@sh.itjust.works 3 months ago
Would’ve been better if you had used a photo with an actual tree instead of a rock.
Frozengyro@lemmy.world 3 months ago
And an actual algae instead of a great wall of China
lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network 3 months ago
Yeah, who is this guy, anyway?