A recent experiment showed one application of olivine can release enough nickel to contaminate soil for hundreds of years. This limits olivine’s use to very low application rates that will still release nickel but limit the amount of CO2 Olivine can capture. Despite the potential of olivine for carbon sequestration in soil and oceans, […]
Canadian Wollastonite’s retail wollastonite product, CW Grow now has a video to help everyone understand capturing carbon with accelerated weathering and the plant growth benefits wollastonite can provide. It’s only 90 seconds, see what you think:
The Ontario Farmer is read weekly by just about every farmer in Ontario and covers a wide range of topics. We showed up on the front page recently with a well-written article about the potential for calcium silicates and accelerated weathering. This is an excellent summary and a great overview of exactly what happens when […]
Large-scale field trials of rock dust applications in agriculture are precisely what we need to harness the benefits of applying crushed calcium and magnesium silicates to agricultural fields. This summary reports on the early findings of a study currently in progress. The benefits of applying rock dust to agricultural fields are wide-ranging and economically affordable […]
Climate change has been on the international stage for a while now. Remember the Tokyo Protocol? Many governments signed it into effect the same year this study was published. As one of the first, this study proposes using rocks as a solution to reduce atmospheric levels of CO2 rapidly. After twenty-plus years, turning carbon into […]