6600 gallons pf sodium hydroxide?

[Jekyl]

Just wondering what our resident chemist (@Randy Holmes-Farley )thinks of this article? With so many of is trying to mimic the ocean, it seems others want to change it.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/07/11/ocean-alkalinity-enhancement-experiment-woods-hole-whoi

 

[Randy Holmes-Farley Verified Community Expert]

Just wondering what our resident chemist (@Randy Holmes-Farley )thinks of this article? With so many of is trying to mimic the ocean, it seems others want to change it.

https://www.wbur.org/news/2024/07/11/ocean-alkalinity-enhancement-experiment-woods-hole-whoi

My immediate concern is where does all that sodium hydroxide come from and what are the implications. Right now, it comes from a process that makes chlorine , the chlor alkali process. It takes a huge amount of electricity and what does one do with the huge amount of Cl2 that would be made.

From Wikipedia:

Because the process yields equivalent amounts of chlorine and sodium hydroxide (two moles of sodium hydroxide per mole of chlorine), it is necessary to find a use for these products in the same proportion.