Good find Robert. Russ doesn't give up does he!
What happened to that surefire cold fusion play you were helping out with? Because clearly this new source of clean free energy is a hell of a lot more important than OIF.
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Jason, does your micronutrient mechanism for ocean phytoplankton contain Si?
Why yes it does Daniel. Here is the patent for this material: https://www.patentguru.com/assignee/lucent-biosciences-inc
Here is the patent we were granted with respect to calculating carbon sequestered by Ocean fertilization:
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Thanks for the welcome Shane D. !
I think it was mentioned earlier in this thread by robert bryant that we developed (and peer reviewed and patented) a superior Fe delivery mechanism for plankton. It turns out this material also works excellent to deliver Fe (and other elements) to enhance the soil microbial community + from the soil microbial community to crops. Our field trials (90+ so far) have shown an improved micronutrient uptake and yield in plants. A bonus is the carbon sequestered as soil carbon. So by default we now have an Agtech company and are not actively pursuing OIF research. You can read about it on our website or social media - http://www.soileos.com.
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Surely. I'll email you.
No problem, I'm available to anyone who is interested in talking about OIF, the Haida project or Russ George. [email protected].
Cheers!
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Alan Smith I would have liked to have been a fly on the wall during your conversations with Russ. He has a unique perspective on many things, including the Haida project. I'd be happy to have a discussion about the project offline.
With respect to the experimental front, the Koreans were close (See Yoon et al) but that project was cancelled. I don't know of any other groups who might be planning OIF research in the near future.
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Interesting thread.
For background I was the Chief Operations Officer and a Director of the Haida Salmon Restoration Corporation which undertook the 2012 Ocean Iron Fertilization (OIF) project west of Canada in 2012. I managed the entire company from its incorporation in 2011 until late 2014. There are a lot of misconceptions about that project and OIF in general in this thread.
The company was investigated by Environment Canada in a very Canadian fashion. There was no raid and they did not take any data. They took copies of the data with which to continue their investigation - there were no charges ever laid. In fact the data was made public in July 2014. This link will take you to an archived email I sent out to the academic community. The links are broken but several members of the company including myself and Russ George have physical copies of the data including the plankton samples: https://nualgi1.rssing.com/chan-32596503/article22-live.html
If you want to learn about the history of OIF, this paper offers a great summary: https://bg.copernicus.org/articles/15/5847/2018/
If you want to understand the Carbon potential I recommend this article, particularly the supplementary info where the calculations can be found: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature11229
If you want to do it yourself you can use the patented methodology to calculate the carbon.
