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Pamela Silver

Founding core faculty member at the Wyss Institute, source of the 'easily applicable, risk-free' characterization of the strategy.

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Siderophore-engineered bacteria weather olivine 2.6 times faster in flowing seawater

Enhanced rock weathering's problem has always been rate rather than chemistry, and a Nature Biotechnology result attacks the rate directly. The 2.6-fold gain was measured on kilograms of mineral in a flow reactor.

Publishers:genengnews.com

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Engineered marine bacteria weather olivine 2.6 times faster in a seawater tank

A pilot bioreactor running on unprocessed seawater and acetate pulled 0.50 grams of CO2 a day out of the air from 4 kilograms of rock, a modest number obtained by direct measurement in a tank rather than by inference from a field plot.

Publishers:nature.comphys.org

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Engineered ocean bacterium strips the rust that stalls carbon-capturing olivine

The 2.6-fold speedup came from deleting the microbe's own off switch. That leaves the hard part of this work to whoever writes the discharge permit for a basin full of it.

Publishers:interestingengineering.com

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