Climate change mitigation: potential benefits and pitfalls of …
EW with basalt appears the pragmatic choice for application in tropical agriculture to avoid unintended negative consequences . The trade-off is that, theoretically at least, basalt is less effective than olivine for CO 2 capture (e.g. approximately 0.3 tCO 2 t −1 basalt versus 0.8 tCO 2 t −1 olivine ). Ancillary benefits of basalt for crop ...