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Why: We've developed VERY-LARGE-SCALE ocean CDR to help reduce atmospheric CO2 while restoring ocean ecosystems, supporting island-nation/state financially and with job creation/climate justice, enhance ocean fisheries, and more. 

How: our wave-driven ocean upwelling pump delivers critical nutrients from 500m depth to the sunlit surface ocean, triggering photosynthesis and growing phytoplankton which absorb CO2, over time sinking to the deep ocean where it is sequestered for centuries to millenia.

Each project covering 1/4 of the island's ocean EEZ can remove the CO2 equivalent to about 1% of global annual emissions. This is the very-large-scale needed to make a difference.

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We do Ocean CDR, with co-benefits including ocean ecosystem restoration, fisheries enhancement, jobs and climate justice, and substantial new revenues for developing island-nations.

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Economic diversity: we will produce our pumps on floating factories located in ports of island-nations/states. Each factory will produce 1,000 Oxygenator units per year, loaded on contracted workboats, and then deployed offshore in the open ocean. The factory will employ about 25-35 workers. As the pumps comprise steel, composite, and fabric materials, production and assembly is low-tech and needed skills are easily learned. This will provide jobs and income in economically-stressed communities. 

Gender diversity: the work schedule at each factory will comprise 3 five hour shifts per day, six days per week: 7am-noon, noon-5pm, and 5pm-10pm. This schedule should allow single parents and working couples to work while their children are in school. In addition, each factory will provide child-care to support the balance between family and jobs/income.

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