It took sixteen years Stasa Puskaric to develop the idea of disposal of carbon dioxide. Today it is patented, tested and is awaiting the necessary approvals worldwide. What seems a small step for a professor from Croatian south, could be a big step for mankind.
Staša Puškarić is a professor of environmental sciences at the
American College of Management and Technology in Dubrovnik. But for
a long time he's been involved in environment outside of classroom.
One area of his activities is the protection of nature through
composting, but in academic and media circles concerned with global
warming, Puškarić is mentioned in the context of the GEA@275.
The idea is that with the help of small amounts of iron we can
stimulate the creation of organic accumulations, the so-called
marine snow, which attracts bacteria and cyanobacteria - carbon
eaters. Chemicals and carbon would fall together with marine snow
at the bottom of the ocean and thus become a natural part of the
geological carbon cycle. Puškarić claims that in a time shorter
than one year this procedure could eliminate annual emissions of
harmful carbon dioxide.
GEA@275 protocol to remove atmospheric carbon has already been
patented and is currently the only one in the world that can
dispose CO2 in natural geological reservoirs. Tests in
the laboratory and in actual sea conditions showed no significant
adverse impact on nature.
"This is one of the safe ways to solve the
CO2 emissions and I've developed it to buy us
time. But if you really want to save the planet, we need to do
something else, first of all change ourselves. "
Staša Puškarić
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