Coretec Group Inc (CRTG)

[skitahoe]

John, I'm for anything that helps to clean up the planet, but I believe the place we can make the biggest difference in is being ignored, the oceans. I've only had a basic oceanography course, but in it one thing was clear, something like 80% of our oceans have virtually no life, and therefore no photosynthesis at the surface because all the nutrients are down 400 feet and no upwelling is occurring. I believe that simple artificial upwelling units could bring nutrients to the surface and sunlight could do all the rest. Besides plankton, turning CO2 into carbon and oxygen, it would be easy to also set up kelp forests, and then establish fish farming in these areas with plentiful nutrients, plankton and kelp. In some ways it would also tend to counter global warming as colder water below would be cooling the warmer water at the surface.

Someone more knowledgeable than me needs to look at this, but it really doesn't require much energy to pump water from 400 ft. or deeper to the surface, I really think something like the duct off dryers, but over 400 ft, long could do the job. A small compressor could send air down to an airstone perhaps 25 or so feet down and just keep the water coming like in an aquarium, I just don't know how large an area the nutrients would spread out to, but believe it could be substantial. It would take many artificial upwellers, but they could be solar powered but if I'm right our oceans could deal with many of our climate problems and be generating a lot of food as well.

Gary