Re:Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air
by lostlogin on Thursday October 26, 2023 @04:51AM
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> I think the second "gotcha" is that even at 83 microns, that particle size is likely unsafe.
It’s a bit dark, but wouldn’t a death toll improve the situation from an emissions perspective?
Re:Adding Crushed Rock to Farmland Pulls Carbon Out of the Air
by WitCanStain on Thursday October 26, 2023 @05:08AM
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If you execute all the staff at every power plant in the world and then keep executing the subsequent replacement cohorts, every power plant would have to shut down and we would dramatically reduce global CO2 production. Similarly, if you position machine guns at major roads and keep shooting every car that comes through, you will eventually reduce the environmental toll of driving cars.
It'd have to be combined with a binder to form much larger particle sizes so that the natural weathering safely exposes the olivine slowly over decades. I suspect that once one does the math on the whole lifecycle, it's net carbon positive only after decades if it is to be done safely.
* People who have been to Burning Man can testify to just how much trouble dust that small causes, not to mention the frequent dust storms with zero visibility.