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> They get covered by silt and deep ocean detritus that is easy to break and mine with zero harm to life-forms, tube worms etc. What is needed is a deep sea sie
by _Microft 3y ago
> They get covered by silt and deep ocean detritus that is easy to break and mine with zero harm to life-forms, tube worms etc. What is needed is a deep sea sieve with a separator/flusher connected to a conveyor to the surface.
What effect does it have to disturb/stir up all that silt? Isn‘t that going to create huge plumes that might take ages to settle? Could that be using up the little oxygen left at these depths?
- meepmorp 3y agoWe have no idea, and it really doesn't matter because it's going to happen anyway; even if we do know, nobody's going to not do it because it might wipe out some ecosystems. We'll wreck everything, carelessly, like we've always done.
- samtho 3y agoDefeatist thinking is not what we need to actually solve problems.
- littlestymaar 3y agoThe only viable alternative is violence, and most of us aren't especially thrilled by this perspective either, so cynicism is all we've left…
- galangalalgol 3y agoIt isn't necessarily defeatist. We could expect human nature to prevail despite our best efforts to curb it, and use that expectation to be prepared with mitigations and backup plans.
- meepmorp 3y agoWe don't even take particularly good care of the parts of the earth we live in and directly need to survive, why are we going to get it right in a remote and hostile environment like that? Sure, I'm all for trying, but I don't hold out a ton of hope. I'd love to be wrong.
- halhod 3y agoWe do in fact have an idea, and it’s improving all the time. See this paper by MIT team on the plumes from the collector https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn1219 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abn1219