Re:Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite...
by ncmncm on Sunday March 13, 2022 @06:12PM
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Literally impossible to do. And, also, absolutely pointless to worry about.
In another century, if we don't blast ourselves back to the stone age first (increasingly likely), energy from hydrogen-boron fusion will dominate wherever solar is impractical, and the geothermal wells will become too expensive to continue operating. So, either way, the whole process is an imperceptible blip.
Re:Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite...
by russnes on Monday March 14, 2022 @03:54PM
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OK, good. But yeah the high likelihood of returning to the stone age repeatedly makes it even more important for the magnetic field to sustain for as long as possible.
Re:Finland starts much-delayed nuclear plant, brings respite...
by ncmncm on Monday March 14, 2022 @05:39PM
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We will never have any way to interfere with the planetary magnetic field, in any circumstance.
Blasting our way back to the stone age will succeed in chopping off CO2 output suddenly, though. The climate could then return to normal in only a century or three, if the sudden change did not instead trigger an ice age or something.
Since the layers are directly connected, it doesn't sound like to me that you'd have to dig into the very core for that to happen.
Of course at the current state of affairs the effects are miniscule, but it doesn't sound like a very good investment as something to potentially scale up in the future to where it will actually matter.
If it turns out to be a problem, how hard would it be to insert fuel back into the earth's core to sustain the magnetic field?