Water alternating gas injection - Nelson (&dog)

Tyler Felgenhauer and @geoengineering1 discuss risk-risk trade-offs. Paper: Tyler Felgenhauer, Govindasamy Bala, Mark E Borsuk, Inés Camilloni, Jonathan B Wiener, Jianhua Xu, Practical paths to risk-risk analysis of solar radiation modification, Oxford Open Climate Change, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2025, kgaf012, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfclm/kgaf012 Guest info: Tyler Felgenhauer, PhD; Senior Research Scientist; Research Director; The Duke Center on Risk; Duke University link for the RFF workshop. https://www.rff.org/events/conferences/2025-rff-and-harvard-srm-social-science-research-workshop-governance-in-a-fractured-world/

Jeffrey Nielsen and @geoengineering1 discuss how the strategic relationship between the US and China will interact with SRM. Paper: Jeffrey Nielsen, The big green button: stratospheric aerosol injection as a geopolitical dilemma during strategic competition between the United States and China, and implications for expanding aerosol injection near-term research, Oxford Open Climate Change, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2025, kgaf009, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfclm/kgaf009

Enrico Prats Salvado discusses the benefits and challenges of using the sun's heat for DAC desorb. Paper Prats-Salvado, E., Monnerie, N. & Sattler, C. Powering Direct Air Capture: Overview of Existing Concepts and the Overlooked Role of Concentrated Solar Thermal Technologies. Curr Sustainable Renewable Energy Rep 12, 8 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40518-025-00255-y

Claire Nelson, founder of Cella mineral storage, explains how underground injections of water alternating with CO2 might aid mineralsation. Paper: Water-alternating-gas injections for optimized mineral carbon storage in basalt https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1750583624002263 Poppin' Fresh, more widely known as the Pillsbury Doughboy, is also, rather randomly, discussed https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pillsbury_Doughboy

Paul Reginato explains how biotech can be applied to CDR. Paper: Biotechnology in direct air capture, enhanced weathering, and methane removal: emerging opportunities and gaps. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2024.1440833

Can we just throw carbon in the sea - like a mobile phone with incriminating evidence on? Brenna Boehman and Erica Dorr from Sinkco and Riverse come on to discuss their Marine Carbon Burial Methodology with @geoengineering1

Martin Freimüller introduces Octavia Carbon, explaining how they're making DAC work in Kenya's Great Rift Valley. Hosted by @geoengineering1

Smoggies Humbul (Suleman), Omar, and Faizan discuss their research detailed in this press release https://www.tees.ac.uk/sections/news/pressreleases_story.cfm?story_id=8651 It's a fancy form of hydrochar, pimped by chemical manipulation.

Can COVID policy be compared to geoengineering policy? Hosea Olayiwola Patrick discusses "Reflections on COVID-19 Adaptive Responses as a Template for Climate Intervention-Geoengineering Engagement" with @geoengineering1 https://www.preprints.org/manuscript/202501.1715/v1

Would a whiter sky be noticeable, under SAI geoengineering? Ansar Lemon discusses what humans and animals could see. Paper: Under a not so white sky: visual impacts of stratospheric aerosol injection - Ansar Lemon et al 2025 Environ. Res. Lett. 20 024060 DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/ada2ae A link to his music is here https://youtu.be/EpQ7rnQTDDU?si=ubVwa7p45uZ9mw_q