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		malfist on Feb 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to pull carbon dioxide out of seawater Wow, how did I manage that. My numbers are all off by 100x. So that means they're saying the ocean is 4% CO2? That would mean the ocean has more CO2 than salt (3.5% or 35 ppt)

Aperocky on Feb 18, 2023 [–]

Ocean is also about 1000x as dense as air, so it only needs 40ppm of CO2 to be 100x more concentrated as air.

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