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In article <720@sierra.stanford.edu> rosentha@sierra.Stanford.EDU 
(Peter A. Rosenthal) writes:

<<Interesting speculations about coral reefs as a natural sink for
over-abundant CO2 deleted.>>

	   If one could float large substrates out in the open ocean several
   meters below the surface, and properly seed them, I would bet that
   reefs would grow very well on them provided they were located in a
   stable, well lit, clean place.  Coral occupies only a small area on
   the planet presently;  I wonder how many square miles?  How difficult
   would it be to double the area artificially? 

	   Coral reef farms of this sort would also be a great sustainable
   food source for humanity as well as the rest of the world.

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Very interesting idea, one that had not occurred to me.  My questions are:

1) How large are the "large substrates"?

2) How do we make the "large substrates"?  What do we make them of?
Will their manufacture cause, in and of itself, a large release of 
CO2 or pollutants?

3) Will the installation disrupt anything that should not be disrupted?

Still, an idea worth considering, along with, naturally, decreasing
the amount of CO2 we cavalierly dump into the ecosphere.
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