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On a serious note, an alike proposal has been made by one of the more controversial professors (Schuiling) of my former university. Last year, if I recall, he went to Turkey to see how feasible it would be to create peridotite pebble beaches - beaches and saline water would be a good spot to enhance chemical weathering. Don't know how that ended, but I'll find out during my Christmas break - a friend of mine came along. Schuiling's name pops up here and there on the web.

In praise of olivine...