Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Saving the Baltic

The Baltic Sea, due to inhibited circulation and all the inputs caused by an increasing coastal population, resulting in elevated nutrient levels and eutrophication, needs help. Now there's an idea to use wind power to pump oxygenated surface waters into the deep water, helping to use up phosphorus, and thus inhibit the overabundance of algae which sucks oxygen out of bottom waters when the algae die and decompose.

This kind of innovative thinking deserves our support (and hopefully it'll work, too!)

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