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Just deforest the land and dump the logs onto the North/South Pole, reforest, and repeat. No radiation necessary.
by 1970-01-01 3y ago
Just deforest the land and dump the logs onto the North/South Pole, reforest, and repeat. No radiation necessary.
- NotYourLawyer 3y ago“Just” move a zillion tons of wood halfway across the earth.
- 1970-01-01 3y agoWood floats the same way rocks don't. It's not an energy problem, it's a time problem.
- maxbond 3y agoThat model only works in an ocean without currents, or with exclusively favorable currents. The weaker claim of, "we can expend minimal energy by taking a very long time to get there," perhaps even wind energy, might work though. I think we'd have to answer that empirically.
- twic 3y agoWood floats, so that doesn't sound impossible.
- 0cf8612b2e1e 3y agoI have read a similar proposal that you can just drop biomass into deep oceanic trenches. The cold, pressure, etc mean that decomposition is significantly slower than would happen on the surface.