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Originally Posted by Eclipse Now
If we can't reclaim African deserts, what chance do we have of Terraforming Mars?
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Excellent point!
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I like this idea of using bacteria to speed up the formation of sandstone. Sort of like generating more glomalin!
Sequestering CO2 would be another nice side benefit of this process, which they don't mention in the article. It would help counteract all the CO2 we release from using cement.
Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
...and we'd be using less cement too!
I think sandstone is between 10-20% cement, so that would be 10-20% CO2 (by weight of sandstone) sequestered.
This idea adds a lot of clarity to part of my fuzzy vision of the future.
Thanks!
~SA
