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Could this be mitigated by detonating small quantities of high explosives a few meters below ground in a 2D grid?

• gostsamo 4y ago
  I think that small tactical nucks might yield better results. /S
  • jacquesm 4y ago
    PNE's were actually suggested at some point: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful_nuclear_explosion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peaceful_nuclear_explosion
    • gostsamo 4y ago
      Yep, I know. Still, using explosives on a mass scale to counter the actions of tractors is rather impractical. The only place it might be considered useful could be the Ukrainian war. In all other places, digging the earth to plant the explosives will do more for tilling the soil than the explosives themselves.
  • orangepurple 4y ago
    > I think that small tactical nucks might yield better results. /S I am not sure what small squads of Canadian military have to do with this
• samatman 4y ago
  This... kind of answers your question actually! https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0189177 https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal... The answer is yes, bearing in mind this study is actually about bioremediation of the toxic residues of (some!) explosives. I struggle to think of a way that a guncotton deflagration could contaminate soil, this could just be a failure of imagination on my part but the idea isn't completely insane.
  • orangepurple 4y ago
    Apparently I'm bullish on explosive farming tech. TNT seems highly biodegradable (!) Another pathway has been described in Pseudomonas sp. strain JLR11 and involves nitrite release and further reduction to ammonium, with almost 85% of the N-TNT incorporated as organic N in the cells. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC99030/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC99030/
    • robonerd 4y ago
      Use fertilizer for the blasting; two birds with one stone.