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Men 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

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.06623
Confronting the escalating threat of climate change requires innovative and large-scale inter-ventions. This paper presents a bold proposal to employ a buried nuclear explosion in a remote basaltic seabed for pulverizing basalt, thereby accelerating carbon sequestration through Enhanced Rock Weathering (ERW). By precisely locating the explosion beneath the seabed, we aim to confine debris, radiation, and energy while ensuring rapid rock weathering at a scale substantial enough to make a meaningful dent in atmospheric carbon levels. Our analysis outlines the parameters essential for efficient carbon capture and minimal collateral effects, emphasizing that a yield on the order of gigatons is critical for global climate impact. Although this approach may appear radical, we illustrate its feasibility by examining safety factors, preservation of local ecosystems, political considerations, and financial viability. This work argues for reimagining nuclear technology not merely as a destructive force but as a potential catalyst for decarboniza-tion, thereby inviting further exploration of pioneering solutions in the fight against climate change.
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Éamonn
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I'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"
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Richard W. Woodley RNKD BLTS 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️📷 🗺️
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What more could you ask for. You can keep driving gas powered muscle cars PLUS you get to blow stuff up.

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Jargoggles
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Do you want Godzillas? Because that's how you get Godzillas.
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PhDog
I consider this "looking on the bright side."

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Waiting On A Bus
@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.
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Jim Smoot
@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…

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Andrew-Haverly

https://www.rit.edu/directory/slaeec-sonia-lopez-alarcon

Sonia Lopez Alarcon | RIT

Sonia Lopez Alarcon, Associate Professor, Department of Computer Engineering, Kate Gleason College of Engineering, 585-475-4081, slaeec@rit.edu. Dr.
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I propose we put them in a Bezos rocket, and send them to the sun. Or, we just gag them, put them in a straitjacket, and feed them Prozac. @climatejesper
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