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Honest question, can't we just mix gasoline or something similar with something that will make it float, pour it over the sargasso and then set it on fire? Edi

Honest question, can't we just mix gasoline or something similar with something that will make it float, pour it over the sargasso and then set it on fire? Edit: we control burn areas on land all the time. Why not on the ocean?

kwere 3y ago
why not harvest it with ships?
fullspectrumdev 3y ago
Ah yes, just add petrochemicals and hope the environmental disaster gets better. Best bets to just leave it the fuck alone.
jxf 3y ago
To be clear, you want to dump enough gasoline-napalm into the Atlantic Ocean to incinerate a 5,500-mile-long belt of something that's mostly submerged in water?
- ourmandave 3y ago
  Well, it's either that or nuke the hurricane that washed it ashore. /s
Jeff_Brown 3y ago
It's an interesting thought experiment, and I think undeserving of downvotes. If you could get a bunch of balloons underneath the seaweed to float it above the water, maybe it would have a hope of burning -- but the balloons would have to withstand fire. Difficult. With a heroic effort maybe you could sweep the stuff onto a beach where it could burn. You'd burn a lot of fuel doing it, though, and then a lot of seaweed, and you wouldn't have changed the conditions that led to its growth in the first place.
PhasmaFelis 3y ago
Gasoline already floats, very well. Oil spills are still long-lasting environmental disasters. Also, it's difficult to burn to a soaking-wet object without drying it out first. It's difficult to dry out things that are in the ocean.
- wonderwonder 3y ago
  "Oil spills are still long-lasting environmental disasters" What if we just lit them on fire... :)
  - autoexec 3y ago
    BP is way ahead of you https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f7/Deepwater_Horizon_fire_seen_by_US_Coast_Guard_helicopter.ogv/Deepwater_Horizon_fire_seen_by_US_Coast_Guard_helicopter.ogv.480p.vp9.webm https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/...
hoosieree 3y ago
We landed a man on the moon, why not the sun?
- luxuryballs 3y ago
  hmm maybe at night when the sun is cold?

kwere 3y ago

why not harvest it with ships?

fullspectrumdev 3y ago

Ah yes, just add petrochemicals and hope the environmental disaster gets better. Best bets to just leave it the fuck alone.

jxf 3y ago

To be clear, you want to dump enough gasoline-napalm into the Atlantic Ocean to incinerate a 5,500-mile-long belt of something that's mostly submerged in water?

ourmandave 3y ago
Well, it's either that or nuke the hurricane that washed it ashore. /s

Jeff_Brown 3y ago

It's an interesting thought experiment, and I think undeserving of downvotes. If you could get a bunch of balloons underneath the seaweed to float it above the water, maybe it would have a hope of burning -- but the balloons would have to withstand fire. Difficult. With a heroic effort maybe you could sweep the stuff onto a beach where it could burn. You'd burn a lot of fuel doing it, though, and then a lot of seaweed, and you wouldn't have changed the conditions that led to its growth in the first place.

PhasmaFelis 3y ago

Gasoline already floats, very well. Oil spills are still long-lasting environmental disasters. Also, it's difficult to burn to a soaking-wet object without drying it out first. It's difficult to dry out things that are in the ocean.

wonderwonder 3y ago
"Oil spills are still long-lasting environmental disasters" What if we just lit them on fire... :)
- autoexec 3y ago
  BP is way ahead of you https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f7/Deepwater_Horizon_fire_seen_by_US_Coast_Guard_helicopter.ogv/Deepwater_Horizon_fire_seen_by_US_Coast_Guard_helicopter.ogv.480p.vp9.webm https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/...

hoosieree 3y ago

We landed a man on the moon, why not the sun?

luxuryballs 3y ago
hmm maybe at night when the sun is cold?