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

  • Shardikprime@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    It’s never too late if you seriously consider all your options Ie:

    Full nuclear energy development with SMRs

    Fusion reactors research

    Full transition to electric/hydrogen vehicles

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

    Full development of lunar/cis lunar infrastructure/space

    Large scale deployment of solar mirror arrays designed to reflect incoming sunlight, built using lunar regolith as raw materials source

    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

    You know, easy stuff

    And so on

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

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

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            Well you wouldn’t explode it just anywhere, there are tons of deserted seabed places about.

            The best is that the explosion would be mitigated greatly by the teratons of basalt and water over the explosion

    • rabber@lemmy.ca
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      I’m a pessimist in that even in the best possible situation humans would still find a way to overpopulate the earth until no solution is viable. We are parasites

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        Don’t disagree that civilization is a parasite, but a lot of parasites evolve to not kill their host 🙂

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        We are categorically not parasites. We don’t live in/on another organism deriving nutritional value from the bodies as hosts

        We and other animals eat plants/plan eaters directly. We are not hosted by plants or plant eaters.

        If that were the case, other animals would also be parasites. At most, we are predators

        There are many definitions of parasites tho and all hinge on the time the parasite spends in/on the host

    • OpenStarsOP
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      O…k…a…y… lemme just get right onto that now… You know what, I think I’ll take a nap, and perhaps get back to it tomorrow? 👨‍🔬☢️💥