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Maybe there is something aithorities can spread on sand that renders it useless for construction, something that reacts with concrete.
by mattigames 3y ago
Maybe there is something aithorities can spread on sand that renders it useless for construction, something that reacts with concrete.
- wholinator2 3y agoWell, that'd have to be something that reacts with concrete that doesn't react with water, or plants in any way, something that isn't harmful to the animal ecosystem in the sand, or even the bacterial ecosystem so no big ph swings, and then you have to evenly distribute this product into a near infinite volume of sand. So on the one hand it's an impending ecological disaster, and on the other its an economic catastrophe
- mattigames 3y agoAll fair points except the one about "evenly distribute into a near infinite volume of sand", which makes no sense since you would obviously target the zones being used by the crime rings themselves, of course you can't find them all but if the risk of mining useless sand becomes big enough it may stop being economically attractive for those criminals.
- namaria 3y agoSo to apply your solution, assuming there is such a product and it has zero negative impacts, we'd need first find an illegal mining operation with certainty and reach it with a lot of man power. Which is the bottleneck in enforcement in the first place.