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Re:Ships fitted with ‘cheat devices’ to divert poisonous pol... by xkcd-sucks on Monday September 30, 2019 @11:11AM (#21116169)
Elemental sulfur isn't all that nasty, it would be fine in a pile somewhere. The issue is dispersing it into ecosystems quickly. Kind of like fixed nitrogen, which like sulfur is a nutrient
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Re:Ships fitted with ‘cheat devices’ to divert poisonous pol... by jws on Monday September 30, 2019 @12:26PM (#21117044)
You can see the great stacked blocks of it in Canada where it is removed from the tar sands oil… https://www.google.com/mymaps/viewer?mid=1Wi4KuLBYcXHH0dq4j4...

The oil is more valuable without the sulfur, but the market price of sulfur is low, so they just stack it up.

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