Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea?
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Could rising sea levels caused by climate change be thwarted by digging a big hole at the bottom of the sea? - Lemmy.World
Iโm not proposing this as an actual solution, itโs just a dumb idea. But if we
dug a huge, wide hole at the bottom of the ocean, or maybe widened the Mariana
Trench or something, could that extra space make the sea levels drop enough to
keep the land from flooding?
The energy required to lift that amount of rock from the seabed to above the surface would be impractical. But good news! It doesnโt need to be from the bottom of the sea, just a part below the desired waterline. So we can dig these big holes you want right off the coastline and then, as a bonus, use the materials as landfill to raise or extend the current coastline. Still wildly impractical, but much less so than digging at the bottom.
Still more practical than musk rat going to mars though.
I say we still do that one, though. As long as he goes, personally.