Saving the Planet Act 1: Reversing Climate
Change: Ideas Brainstorm #2
We recently reached out to a couple of people
to see what they thought about our ideas
for saving the planet. To our pleasant surprise,
one of the two happened to have worked in
the oil drilling industry and provided a
great deal of insight.
One avenue we are certainly going to explore
immediately is replacing the baryte and other
backfill fluids with carbon-based fluids.
The difficulty we will have is in finding
something at least as dense but which is
made of carbon. One possibility is making
the carbon into a more dense form, though
this won't be quite as dense as baryte, which
is dense so it can act against pressures
inside wells. Forms of carbon which are more
dense are certainly forms we can consider,
but any process must be at least as cost-effective
as baryte for the industry to use it. We
will continue to seek out ways to sequester
carbon.
One idea I have long thought would be a good
idea is to permanently remove any excess
carbon from Earth altogether so that it can
never find its way back into our atmosphere.
And there is a very clever way to do this
which does not waste the carbon and actually
allows it to significantly serve mankind
in a completely sustainable manner.
The great thing about this idea is that it
necessitates the removal of something else
Earth can really do without: nuclear fuel
and weapons. Allow me to explain very briefly:
if sufficient radioactive material can be
delivered to Mars and a meltdown created
intentionally, it is entirely possible to
remelt the core of Mars, thought to be the
reason Mars no longer has an atmosphere (it
did, else it could not be red, the color
of iron oxide, which requires massive amounts
of oxygen which does not exist freely in
the Martian atmosphere). If successful, then
the excess carbon of Earth can be used to
process the Martian atmosphere and seed life
sufficient to actually colonize Mars, and
allow us to actually design an environment
and have control over the climate.
Yes, this is a huge idea that is very, very
preliminary. But we know that it can be done,
and we know that Earth does not need all
this carbon nor all of these nuclear weapons
or power plants. They are dangerous to humans
on earth, but only because they are in the
hands of immature people who are in fact
insane, when you consider that what they
are doing with these resources is particularly
dangerous to the human species and Earth
itself. By removing the excess carbon and
nuclear fuel from Earth, we not only ensure
that Earth can continue to support human
life, but we also create a second home for
ourselves, to protect the human species from
any fate which might just happen to befall
us on Earth, such as an asteroid strike,
or a Coronal Mass Ejection from the sun which
has the potential to simply strip Earth of
its atmosphere altogether.
Yet another idea we hope to pursue is what
we hope will be the ultimate: biotechnology
which allows us to print grids of proteins
on a bed of living synthetic tissue which
supports these protein which would be comprised
of a matrix of dots where photosynthesis
or a similar process would remove carbon
from the air, amongst channels of other proteins
designed to move that carbon through the
matrix as a waste product. What we intend
is for a synthetic living tissue that can
process carbon out of the atmosphere while
simultaneously generating electricity and
only requiring water and protection from
temperature extremes. Such devices could
be mounted everywhere, and would act to effeciently
process the atmopshere. There are of course
a wide array of other benefits of developing
this kind of biotechnology.