Sentences with phrase «iron dust»

A few years ago, someone wanted to dump tons of iron dust into the oceans to promote algae growth.

In the coming days to weeks, Planktos, a small California - based «ecorestoration» company, will use a 115 - foot (35 - meter) research ship to dump a hundred tons of iron dust into international waters some 200 miles (322 kilometers) west of the Galápagos Islands.

In the summer of 2008 Mount Kasatoshi in Alaska's Aleutian Islands blew, sending volcanic minerals, including iron dust, far to sea and prompting plankton blooms across the Gulf of Alaska.

His secret: 20 pounds of iron nanoparticles — superfine iron dust.

I've written — been writing about this in relation to iron fertilization, efforts to pour iron dust into the sea and stimulate salmon runs and plankton growth.

Regular listeners know this happened in the summer of 2012, as the unstoppable Russ George, formerly of Planktos Corporation, lead the West Coast Haida Nation into a plot to unilaterally dump 100 tons of iron dust into the Pacific Ocean off British Columbia, Canada.

Kim Stanley Robinson's wildly successful 1993 science fiction trilogy about geo - engineering and terraforming, Red Mars, Green Mars, Blue Mars, describes «the fertilization of the Antarctic Ocean with iron dust, which was to act as a dietary supplement to phytoplankton» as a cure for both global warming and dying coral reefs.

In the summer of 2012, Russ George, formerly of Planktos Corporation, lead the West Coast Haida Nation into a plot to unilaterally dump 100 tons of iron dust into the Pacific Ocean off British Columbia, Canada.

It authorized the release of roughly 110 metric tons of iron dust, 91 metric tons of the iron sulfate fertilizer commonly used as a lawn treatment and employed in other scientific experiments, and nearly 20 metric tons of the iron oxide found in soils around the world.

The iron dust eventually dissolves harmlessly into the groundwater.

Mostly created from a novel mixture of cement and iron dust, and inspired by weatherworn medieval Balkan tombstones, her creations are far starker than the work of British contemporaries such as Moore and Hepworth.

Matthew Day Jackson, Pareidolia, wood, steel, resin, glass taxidermy eyes, Meerschaum tobacco pipe silicon, Fernet Branca, Rainer beer, Laphroiag, coffee, acrylic paint, iron dust, porcelain teeth, fabric, 2015, Hauser & Wirth

Scientists who have studied past phases of climate change have found that iron dust may have caused similar effects during ice ages and are hoping to replicate those without causing unwanted fallout.

Dust storms have delivered thousands of tons of iron dust to these same areas [blue indicates the zones with greatest potential for increased plankon productivity] many times in the past, provoking huge blooms, and with no observed ill effects.

Magnetic paint must be stirred extremely well before using, to make sure the iron dust is evenly distributed.