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The primary requirements for waste disposal are geological stability and political expediency. These factors are hard and determine the site. Ability-to-mark do
by cturner 10y ago
The primary requirements for waste disposal are geological stability and political expediency. These factors are hard and determine the site. Ability-to-mark doesn't influence the site choice.
- kbart 10y agoGeological and political stability are concerns for both marked and un-marked sites, I don't see how marking would solve any of these.
- cturner 10y agoSure. I should have been clearer in what I wrote. From your earlier post, "put it in the tunnels inside a mountain then blow all entrances up". With the geology, you want a place where you can firmly reason about what's going to happen over a long period of time. Maybe there would be sites where you can do the thing of putting it into mountains. But mountain geology is not necessarily stable. Consider how mountains are formed. Your limited choice of sites is more likely to be flat country. (And it'll be desert, in order for the politics to work.)
- kbart 10y agoI didn't mean to downplay the difficulty. I understand that despite marked/un-marked choice it's still very difficult engineering problem, but from the cultural point of view, I believe, it's safer to keep such things hidden away as possible and un-marked to avoid any attention than to hope that the future civilizations will take our advice to stay away.