CDR: Re: Insurance (was: why should it be trusted?) cpunk

[David Honig]

At 05:49 PM 10/25/00 -0400, jim bell wrote:
>
>My back-of-the-computerized-envelope calculation shows that it would take
>5900 metric tons (2200 lbs) to load a volume of 100km by 100km by 100 meters
>of water with 100 nanomolar level of iron ion.  (weight counts only that of
>iron, not the anion.)  Big supertankers hold approximately 400,000 tons of
>oil, which happens to be much less dense than iron oxide.
>
>I haven't read much on the results of the experiment done, but my impression
>is that this kind of iron fertilizing is very much worth doing.
>
>Jim Bell

The performance-art potential for drawing with plankton blooms in the ocean
(for imaging by satellites) boggles.  Anyone have Christo's number?