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Erm, I believe it would turn back into oil and coal, etc.
by niels_olson 14y ago
Erm, I believe it would turn back into oil and coal, etc.
- ericd 14y agoWe're not entirely clear on how that works, and our best estimates are that it takes on the order of hundreds of thousands of years and requires quite a bit of pressure. The proposal above would basically be a deep landfill, and generally what will come from landfills in our lifetime is methane, CO2, dirty water, and a lot of garbage sitting around.