Re:A crater formed in Siberia's permafrost is growing
by M_Grey on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @11:52AM
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Good point about the acid rain, the washout. I wonder if there's some way to dope solid rocket booster fuel to produce SOX at higher altitudes? As we launch more and more, maybe we could harness that to ease the burden on something like your blimp idea... thus avoiding the need to nuke the planet.
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Re:A crater formed in Siberia's permafrost is growing
by mirimir on Tuesday February 28, 2017 @02:47PM
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I was just riffing on the nuclear winter thing. But actually, blimps would be unworkable, because we would need to inject millions of tons of SOX per year into the stratosphere. And energy requirements are mostly for lifting, not dispersion.
Perhaps nuclear devices could be designed to produce upward-directed jets.