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Not if they were allowed to use small modular nuclear reactors with heat exchangers to heat the crucibles.
by eucryphia 5y ago
Not if they were allowed to use small modular nuclear reactors with heat exchangers to heat the crucibles.
- AtlasBarfed 5y agoI would love for small modular reactors to be a reality, but using them for economic enablement of the tar sands is about as negative an application as one could imagine. The timeline for modular reactors is 10 years at best, and by then if carbon taxes or crude demand collapse doesn't make the tar sands economically unfeasible, we are in deep trouble on global warming.
- lisper 5y agoWe are already in deep trouble.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoAhem! The byproduct of that stuff is [1] https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=oil+sands+sulphur+mountains&iax=images&ia=images https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffab&q=oil+sands+sulphur+mountains... which could be used to induce a little bit of global dimming by spraying it into the upper layers of the atmosphere, doing some geo-engineering. cough cough Just sayin'...
- AtlasBarfed 5y agoI know you're being nonserious, I'm not criticizing your comment. It does scare me how often intentional global dimming was mentioned in the early days when geoengineering was being suggested as an alternative for our carbon "deficit". So... you want to retard photosynthesis, one of the major carbon binders, in order to stop... global warming that is caused by... unbound carbon dioxide? I think this was right around the time the first Matrix movie came out, where the earth was completely ruined by blacking out the sun.
- LargoLasskhyfv 5y agoSCNR edit: To my defense I can only say I had 5 times 380 to 390ml(16.5 fl ounces) instant caramell coffee(double dosed!), with additional caramell syrup, canned whipped cream(sprayable), and a large shot((for me anyways) about 3 to 4 fl ounces) of Rum. /me giggles in drunken sugar rush