It’s Not Just the Rock—It’s the Soil (And it holds on tight) -- Our latest greenhouse study with data from our greenhouse experiments is now available on EGUSphere as a pre-print. After five years of EW field&lab work and a two‑year greenhouse experiment (focussed on a subset of 4 soil types, 13 rock and industrial feedstocks), our new preprint on enhanced weathering has gone online on EGUsphere. In the blog post linked below, we walk through what we actually saw when we tracked alkalinity in leachate and cation retention in soils. A few takeaways for EW and CDR projects: * Soil type is as important as rock type. pH, clay content, carbonates and CEC can completely change whether added rock dust shows up as measurable alkalinity export or mostly stays in the soil. * Alkalinity export alone underestimates and can even misrepresent CDR. In our experiment, 10–50× more cations stayed in soil pools than left in leachate over 1–2 years. * A large part of “theoretical” CDR is delayed or locked in soil processes that current models and MRV approaches may not yet capture well. If you work on EW deployment, MRV or modelling, the details matter here. We summarise the key results, implications, and what we are doing next (including new experiments and sample collaborations) in the blog (see 1st comment)

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