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

  • boonhet@lemm.ee
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    5 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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      5 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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        5 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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          4 days ago

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

        • Shardikprime@lemmy.world
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          4 days ago

          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