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Is there a way to detect permafrost and remove it using available tech?
by searchableguy 5y ago
Is there a way to detect permafrost and remove it using available tech?
- KyeRussell 5y agoThank you for reminding me that I’m on Hacker News.
- ceejayoz 5y ago11% of the planet's surface has permafrost. Good luck.
- JulianMorrison 5y agoDetect it: poke a stick. It stops, at a pretty consistent depth, and not because of rock. Remove it: overheat the planet. It will turn to mud. Anything built on it will subside or sink. Massive amounts of trapped organic matter will turn to methane. Eventually, I presume the area would settle into a new climatic zone, with neither permafrost nor mud. Emphasis on "eventually".