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Matshelge t1_iss9gbd wrote

Reply to comment by Landmen in Scientists Engineer Bacteria to Recycle Plastic Waste Into Valuable Chemicals by izumi3682

Algae bloom is maybe a good thing får out in the ocean, but bad if close to the shore.

However, testing this out is geo-engineering, and banned across the globe.

So until we get some rogue nation willing to run the tests and do the science, we will not know.

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SentientHotdogWater t1_issxftr wrote

>However, testing this out is geo-engineering, and banned across the globe.

>So until we get some rogue nation willing to run the tests and do the science, we will not know.

No, geo-engineering is not globally banned.

There have been many small scale tests of ocean seeding. It doesn't work as well as people think but it also doesn't not work.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_fertilization

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T1N7 t1_issjx8k wrote

Testing out, wether you could induce algae bloom, counts as geo-engineering? Even on a small scale?

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