David HoMen will do anything to keep using fossil fuels.
This paper proposes to use nuclear bombs to blow up the seafloor to increase alkalinity and take up atmospheric CO₂. What could go wrong? 🤷🏻♂️
h/t @climatejesper
Carbon removal boom boom boom. 💥
Marc KodackSeems what is new is old; using nuclear bombs for fracking,
https://www.cpr.org/2019/09/06/remember-the-first-time-colorado-tried-fracking-with-a-nuclear-bomb/
Brian Edwards-Tiekert@davidho @climatejesper we know exactly where this ends
AccordionBruce@davidho @climatejesper @[email protected]
Or we could seize all the assets of the oil companies and spend them on worthwhile things for a decade or two and things would turn around
#climatechange
Or we could seize all the assets of the oil companies and spend them on worthwhile things for a decade or two and things would turn around
#climatechange
Butterb0x@davidho @climatejesper. This must be satire, surely?! They're talking about "pulverising" more than 1000 cubic kilometers of basalt. That's a hole about 1/4 of the size of the Grand Canyon.
City Atlas"This is orders of magnitude larger than the largest nuclear explosion
ever detonated,
so this is not to be taken lightly." 😀
Maximilian Overdraft, Esq.@CityAtlas @davidho @climatejesper
Tired response: "Your basalt are belong to us."
Wired response: "Yo mama is not to be taken lightly."
Golden Bunny of Destiny 🕯@davidho Crack in the World
Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴♂️📷 🗺️What more could you ask for. You can keep driving gas powered muscle cars PLUS you get to blow stuff up.
Jargoggles
PhDogI consider this "looking on the bright side."
FoolishOwl
Cassandrich@jargoggles @davidho @climatejesper Unlike absorbing CO2 in oceans (which would just justify more capitalism), Godzillas sound like a plausible actual solution.
build a better world@davidho @climatejesper solar, wind, nuclear and decreasing consumption are
right the fuck there
and instead we're proposing to... blow up the ocean to make more dinosaur juice so I can drive my lifted F350 over schoolchildren
MY ACCT HAS MOVED TO {below}@davidho @climatejesper This. Is. Insane.
"Mediocre Bunny" Evelyn@davidho @climatejesper "...preservation of local ecosystems..."? 🤔 🤔 
Go on, tell me another.
fuzzface@davidho @climatejesper The AEC tried to use nuclear bombs as explosives to build mega projects. They were not… erm… successful. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare
@davidho @climatejesper …well, I guess I now have a meter stick to judge CDR projects. “On a scale of 1 to gigaton-nuking the sea floor, how dumb is it?”
Probably comforts the SAI people to not be the people with the most shocking idea at the climate intervention table, too.
Jim Smoot@davidho @climatejesper maybe reach out to his computer science MS thesis advisor and let her know that he’s lost his mind and posting BS under the auspices of being affiliated with RIT years later…
ImbolcI'm not against carbon sequestration, so I read the paper out of curiosity
But it's totally crazy. I even checked to see if paper's publication date was April 1
"a nuclear explosion yield of 81 Gt is required. This is orders of magnitude larger than the largest
nuclear explosion ever detonated, so this is not to be taken lightly."
"This section makes
these assumptions about the nuclear device:
1. This explosion can be detonated without global catastrophe"
Martin Rust@eob
#DrStrangelove never dies. What about employing 81 Gt to shift earth's orbit around the sun outwards by a million kilometers to reduce solar radiation incidence? Just sarcasm.
@davidho @climatejesper
#DrStrangelove never dies. What about employing 81 Gt to shift earth's orbit around the sun outwards by a million kilometers to reduce solar radiation incidence? Just sarcasm.
@davidho @climatejesper
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BashStKid@davidho @climatejesper Apart from the monumental stupidity, I’d say the rather predictable outcome would be sealing up the natural fracture network they were hoping to create, with a large net drop in basalt reactivity area.
Not unlike the 60s dickheads at Gulf Oil who tried fracking wells with nukes, only to find they’d melted and sealed everything in sight.
Clemens ZaunerThis sounds like an idea deeply rooted in the think of 'Operation Plowshare'.
You've got a problem? Just throw some nukes at it.
Winnie 🏳️🌈@davidho that paper has been self published and was not peer reviewer, correct?
Michael Porter@davidho @climatejesper "This paper presents a bold proposal to employ a buried nuclear explosion"
They spelled "batshit crazy" wrong...
HardWired@davidho @climatejesper unbelievable!
anlomedadReminds me of the Mother Of All Bombs your elected SIO, Sadist_In_Office dumped on Afghanistan mountains.
Reckon, the drought in Afghanistan didn't enhance weathering of the pulverized rocks.
One of his cronies might advise him to repeat this on a Greenland fiord.
cbudCould we get a nuclear winter, too?
Cegorach@davidho @breadandcircuses @climatejesper tbf: we probably should stop burning fossile fuels completely, like yesterday, AND do ridiculous stuff like this.
Not "exactly this thing", but still really large scale things to offset really huge amounts of carbon already released.
in reality we'll do neither, but one can dream
teledyn 𓂀@davidho @ai6yr @climatejesper
I say again:
climate change doesn't frighten me half as much as climate action.
“Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing… after they’ve tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked.”
― Richard Buckminster Fuller
JustaMom@davidho @climatejesper
Wow. 🤞for Terradot to miss this proposal entirely..
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/20/24320692/google-tech-terradot-enhanced-rock-weathering-frontier-carbon-removal-climate
Wow. 🤞for Terradot to miss this proposal entirely..
https://www.theverge.com/2024/12/20/24320692/google-tech-terradot-enhanced-rock-weathering-frontier-carbon-removal-climate
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* Soviet Union used it one time to create a lake in Kazakhstan.
* USA used it two times to kill indistinctively tens of thousands of civilians in Japan.
CC: @[email protected]
Zip@davidho @climatejesper after reading the paper I'm damn near convinced.
Kraftwerk-Das Model Collapse@davidgerard let's just hope the nuclear chatbots won't have scraped this ⬆️ 💀