Atmocean
is developing its patents-pending wave-driven
ocean upwelling system to cool the upper ocean and
enhance natural biological processes to absorb CO2.
When widely deployed across critical ocean regions,
the Atmocean technology may help fight global
warming by sequestering significant amounts of
CO2 in the deep ocean, reduce hurricane intensity,
help revive ocean fisheries, and mitigate coral reef
bleaching. Upwelling is the naturally-occurring mixing
of deep, cold, nutrient-rich ocean into the upper
sunlit ocean that is critical to growth of most marine
species. As the upper oceans absorb more heat from
the atmosphere due to the greenhouse effects of CO2
and other heat-trapping gases, they become more stratified,
further risking the natural delivery of
nutrients to the sunlit zone. Atmocean believes our
wave-driven upwelling technology can play a critical
role in mitigating these deleterious effects of CO2-induced
warming, in the years and decades ahead.
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