Chesapeake Bay Waterman’s Livelihood in Jeopardy According to TITR Investigation

Tim Devine, owner of Barren Island Oysters in Hoopers Island, said he hopes his oysters can be resilient against acidification because he feels helpless to do anything about it.

Pocomoke City, MD, February 10, 2015 --(PR.com)-- Rising acidification of estuary waters spells trouble for Chesapeake Bay Waterman.

The Chesapeake Bay Oyster is now potentially entering its newest fight in what could prove to be an epic battle against ocean acidification. Typically, about 30 percent of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is absorbed into oceans, where it becomes carbonic acid and makes the water more acidic. As carbon dioxide becomes more prevalent in the atmosphere, more of it ends up in the ocean as well.

The Chesapeake Bay is an estuary lying inland from the Atlantic Ocean, and surrounded by the North American mainland to the West, and the Delmarva Peninsula to the East. It is the largest such body in the US. The northern bay is within Maryland, the southern portion within Virginia, and is a very important feature for the ecology and economy of those two states, as well as others. More than 150 major rivers and streams flow into the bay's 64,299 square miles (166,534 km2) drainage basin, which covers parts of six states (New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia) plus all of the District of Columbia.

Rising acidification (too much hydrogen in the seawater) of estuary waters spells trouble for Chesapeake Bay oysters and other marine habitats. One example shows, new data published from many scientific and government agencies that rising acidity in the Chesapeake Bay will have a negative impact on oyster shells. Laboratory experiments in which oyster larvae were raised in seawater containing high levels of acidity (hydrogen), levels that are predicted to occur during this century, show the oysters experienced a significant decrease in both shell growth and in the calcium content of their shells. The experiments were led by Ecologist Whitman Miller of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center on the Chesapeake Bay in Edgewater, Md.

Thomas Institute for Technology Research will make hydrogen future good for the Chesapeake Bay.

A new hydrogen gas production technology invented by Scientist Michael Thomas who has filed the first patent teaching the art will be available to the Chesapeake Region free of all cost. When CO2 is pumped into Chesapeake seawater feed stock acidification of the seawater begins.

The improved chemical composition of the returning Chesapeake seawater will be favorable to Chesapeake sea life habitats with continued job creation and stability for the Chesapeake waterman fishing industry.

Chesapeake Seawater is a free feedstock material unregulated, taxed or controlled by any State in the Chesapeake Region.

The benefits of this unique technology to the Chesapeake region is energy independence, environmental protection, protection of the Atlantic Ocean, political stability, and fishing industry job security.

The seawater acidification process now destroying the Chesapeake’s inlets, bays, and Atlantic Ocean can be reversed by the development of a methodology that can deliver substantial quantities of low cost renewable hydrogen from de-acidification of seawater, brine or brackish water is expected and demanded.

The process of producing hydrogen, the most abundant element in the universe, thru safe, intelligent de-acidification (removal of hydrogen) of seawater and brackish water will keep our Chesapeake aquatic life from becoming extinct threatening the livelihood of the Chesapeake Waterman and fishing industry while helping to re-vitalize the already damaged Chesapeake marine environment.

It’s time for environmentally safe energy to be produced that makes people’s lives better within the Chesapeake and Atlantic Ocean regions giving what it needs, hope for the future.

To learn more about this free to the Chesapeake hydrogen-from-seawater technology please contact the Thomas Institute for Technology Research.
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