An Open Sourced Chemical Review on the Removal of Carbon Dioxide Via Seawater.

The paper to which I will merely refer is this one: Ocean Carbon Dioxide Removal and Storage Chang-Ho Lee, Adam V. Subhas, Ju-Hyoung Kim, and Kitack Lee Chemical Reviews 2026 126 (2), 1110-1144

The article is open to the public and free to read. I will merely point to the reference and will not excerpt the paper.

I have long felt and sometimes argued that if an effort is to be made by a future generation to clean up the carbon dioxide mess we left them, removing from the ocean make more sense than direct air capture, except, perhaps using biomass.

It does not make sense to do this when we are using fossil fuels to provide the energy to remove the carbon dioxide from either seawater or air.

As a side note, Dr. Heather Willauer of the Naval Research Lab holds a patent, and has published papers, on the manufacture of jet fuel at sea from oceanic carbon dioxide using the nuclear power in aircraft carriers. The system has been piloted. In this case carbon dioxide would be a closed cycle system of the type advocated by the late Nobel Laureate George Olah.

Anthropogenic Chemical Carbon Cycle for a Sustainable Future George A. Olah, G. K. Surya Prakash, and Alain Goeppert Journal of the American Chemical Society 2011 133 (33), 12881-12898