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"Presentation"
  • Presentation
  • to the
  • T1-T3 Joint Paper Session: Policy, Strategy and  Mitigation
  • Developing Mega-Engineered Greenhouse Gas Management


  •  Climate Change Technology Conference:
    Engineering Challenges and Solutions in the 21st Century
  • May 10-12, 2006, Ottawa, Canada


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Preface
  • Sustainable development  > more energy
    • Fossil fuel emissions may affect climate
    • Possibly we  can control them
    • We will likely need more energy
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Carbon Cycle Overview
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The Human Perturbation
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Carbon Cycling on Land
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The Ocean Carbon Cycle
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Carbon Cycle Summary
  • Humans control much of carbon cycle
    • 24 billion tonnes of plant production
    • Fossil fuels 6 billion tonnes
  • Opportunity
    • Integrate energy use with carbon control



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Renewable Energy
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Nuclear Energy
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Fertilization of the Ocean
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Agriculture - Forestry
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Soil Carbon Sequestration
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Charcoal and Soil
  • Charcoal is a component of soil
    • more durable than other organic forms
    • Likely  produced by fires
  • Ancient Amazonian agriculture
    • some areas of rich black soil
    • possibly man made centuries ago
    • charcoal  from variation of slash and burn?
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 Charcoal-Fertilizer Process
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Recap
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Reflection