(not my OC nor my OP, just helping spread the message around:-)

  • boonhet@lemm.ee
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    11 days ago

    The US is fucked anyway, but if China and the EU worked together, greatness could be approved on potentially the most important front:

    Economic sanctions to countries with grid power coming from carbon/ non renewable resources above a certain percentage

    However, the one I’m most curious about is the following:

    Blowing an 88 megatons hydrogen bomb under the sea, below 8 to 12 Km under the ocean floor surface to trigger about 30 years of carbon capture in a second

    How would this work? I’m really interested in the mechanics of this, not so much the feasibility (which is non-existent anyway)

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      11 days ago

      Oh the biggest bomb one is actually extremely simple

      . Create (an) hydrogen) atomic bomb(s) with yield equal to or similar to 88 megatons . Go to seabed , about 12 km down on Ocean floor

      . Drill about 8 to 12 km into basalt ( basalt is a mineral that fixes to carbon )

      . Detonate bomb

      . Watch trillions of basalt mineral get pulverized instantly into the sea

      . Allow sea currents to distribute this all over the world

      . Watch how oceans start absorbing more CO2

      . Watch as global temperatures drop a degree and a half (1.5)

      Repeat as needed, remember not to overdo it. Thankfully the ocean is extremely good at absorbing any radiation if any dares to escape

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        11 days ago

        Hmm something tells me this might cause unforeseen consequences for aquatic life… But we won’t know until we try!

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          11 days ago

          Well, the alternative is very foreseeable consequences for aquatic life. I’m sure they’d be on board