Take a step-by-step walkthrough of how their solution works in a 🧵 below ⬇️
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1️⃣ "@ebbcarbon with aquaculture farms, desalination plants, ocean research labs, and other industrial sites that process seawater."
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2️⃣ "Ebb intercepts existing salt water flows at the facility and processes the water before it returns to the ocean."
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3️⃣ "Using low carbon electricity, Ebb run the salt water through a stack of ion-selective membranes that separate it into acidic and alkaline solutions."
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4️⃣ "Ebb measure and monitor the pH level and volume of the alkalinity we produce in real time. This enables us to safely return it at levels within the ocean's natural pH variance."
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5️⃣ "Ebb return the alkaline solution to the sea, where it immediately lowers the acidity of the sea water locally."
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6️⃣ "Over weeks to months, the alkaline solution reacts with dissolved CO2 in seawater to create bicarbonate (HCO3), a stable form of carbon storage for 10,000+ years."
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7️⃣ "With more CO2 locked away as bicarbonate, the ocean will naturally equilibrate and sequester more CO2 from the air. Ebb measures the CO2 removed from the air using sensors in the water and ocean and carbonate chemistry models."
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8️⃣ "By partnering with the ocean, Ebb Carbon has the potential to be one of the most energy efficient and cost effective ways to reverse the impacts of climate change both locally and globally."
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🚨Monthly Solar Geoengineering Updates (April'2026)🚨
From EU calls for an #SRM deployment moratorium & WHO-linked health-centered governance report, to Stardust publishing its own SRM rules, key SRM headlines you need to know from past month:
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The private SRM company publishes voluntary rules and safety guidelines, but experts raise concerns over transparency, unknown aerosols, and private control of planetary-scale interventions.
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2️⃣ WHO-linked report calls for health-centered SRM governance:
A pre-print urges SRM governance centred on human health, equity, and Global South inclusion, stressing SRM must never replace emissions cuts (“non-substitution” principle).
🚨Is direct air capture (#DAC) really worth the investment?
A new Nature Climate Change study shows that investing in wind & solar delivers 2-3× greater combined climate + health benefits than direct air capture across most U.S. regions, under the same budget.
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2/ DAC is often promoted as essential for net-zero, removing CO₂ directly from the atm. But most studies assess it in isolation, asking: “Does it work?”
This study asks a policy-relevant question:
“What are we giving up by funding DAC instead of alternatives?”
3/ Researchers modelled cost-equivalent investments across 22 U.S. regions (2020–2050), comparing:
Direct Air Capture vs Utility-scale wind & solar
Critically, they evaluated CO₂ reductions + air pollution + health impacts.
🚨What happens to tropical rainforests as CO₂ rises?
New research shows higher CO₂ boosts tree growth & C uptake by pushing roots to aggressively mine scarce phosphorus.
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2/ Scientists tested this in the Amazon by exposing forest patches to higher CO₂ (future-like conditions) and tracking how trees, roots, and soils responded over time.
3/ Step 1: More CO₂ → faster photosynthesis
Trees produce more sugars, grow faster, and pull more CO₂ out of the air.
🚨Green roofs + enhanced rock weathering (#ERW) could turn cities into carbon sinks.
A new assessment finds Europe’s rooftops could remove tens of millions of tonnes of CO₂ by 2060, with global potential reaching hundreds of MtCO₂/yr under ideal conditions.
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2/ The work is a conceptual, literature-based assessment combined with geochemical scaling.
It estimates CO₂ removal using theoretical maximum reactivity (100% mineral conversion) and extrapolates across urban roof availability in Europe and globally.
3/ Roof availability is a key input:
The study uses estimates that roofs cover ~30–32% of urban land area, and up to ~50% of impervious surfaces in dense cities, highlighting a large, currently underused surface for carbon removal deployment.
🚨A new study details that the climate value of algae & cyanobacteria lies not in CO₂ uptake alone, but in their capacity to generate long-lived, chemically recalcitrant C compounds, such as algaenan & carbonates that may contribute to durable sequestration pathways.
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2/ The study adopts a conceptual synthesis framework, integrating biochemical & geochemical evidence to examine carbon fate post-photosynthetic fixation, moving beyond uptake rates to study the thermodynamic and structural persistence of biogenic carbon.
3/ It constructs a functional distinction between:
1) Labile carbon fractions, which are rapidly cycled through microbial respiration
2) Recalcitrant fractions, which resist degradation & contribute to long-term carbon storage across terrestrial & marine systems.