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Un-burning all the fossil fuels we’ve burned obviously requires a level of industrial infrastructure on par with what it took to get to this point in the first
by fastneutron 3y ago
Un-burning all the fossil fuels we’ve burned obviously requires a level of industrial infrastructure on par with what it took to get to this point in the first place. The olivine method seems to be the most effective from the standpoint of thermodynamics and technological complexity, but one wonders what the side effects of dumping trillions of tons of olivine dust into the ocean in a relatively short period of time would be.
- defrost 3y ago> one wonders what the side effects of dumping trillions of tons of olivine dust into the ocean in a relatively short period of time would be. This is something that can be studied as marine layers already contain many examples of both slow and rapid depositation. One example of grand scale carbonate deposits are the Bunda cliffs - 210 kilometres in length, 120 metres in height, some 20-30 km in width (the material of the cliff face extends inland). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunda_Cliffs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunda_Cliffs