By dumping iron dust into the ocean, the thinking goes, scientists could stimulate the growth of plankton, for which iron is a limiting nutrient.
To do so, place it over a bin, pull the red lever at the top to lift up the cyclones, and further still to open the bottom door and dump out the dust.
But, if she wanted to be comfortable in eternity, work her in with the cow manure, scatter her ashes for the chickens to dust in, dump her in the slop bucket for the pigs.
He had also learned that an American company called Planktos was planning to send a ship into international waters about three hundred miles from the marine reserve; Planktos had announced that it would dump tons of iron dust in the ocean to spark the growth of phytoplankton, and then sell credits based on how much carbon the phytoplankton consumed.
Another barge and Landfill worker stated that "we had a little bit of dust when we dumped out from the dust down at Ground Zero...but most of that dust was just dirt from driving over up to the top of the pile".
Other sources said there would be no large ground-level burst such as the one that dumped lethal radioactive dust on a Japanese fishing vessel in 1954.
For instance, Fig. 1 shows a photo of charcoal dust dumped outside a charcoal vendor store in Nyeri, Kenya.
Open image in new window Fig. 1 A photo of charcoal dust dumped outside a charcoal vendor store in Nyeri, Kenya.
One of the first actions taken under the Superfund Act was the expenditure of more than $100 million to clean up dioxin-contaminated waste oil that had been dumped to control dust on dirt roads in the rural community of Times Beach, Missouri.
According to the World Health Organisation, the toxic fumes of growing numbers of diesel cars are combining with ammonia emissions from farming, wood and coal fires, tyre burning, open rubbish dumps, and dust from construction sites and brick kilns.
