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Give me one reason why this wouldn’t work

>> No.10588844

>>10588838
It’s still less dense than rocks, so it will just sit on the surface and burn. Incinerating it would literally be better for the environment.

>> No.10588861

Volcanoes aren't exactly everywhere, let alone ones with lava lakes.

>> No.10588863

>>10588838
The locals won't let you, Karl.

>> No.10588871
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>>10588844
then just envelop it in something more dense to make it sink

>> No.10588953
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10588953

>"Next week on brainlet science

>> No.10588956

Why don't we just nuke garbage?

>> No.10588963

>>10588838
I think we should just turn the moon into a trash dump and a quarantine site for say lepers and what not. Make one half of the moon a dump, the other half a quarantine site, and below the surface a research facility for various different programs.

>> No.10588966

>>10588838

I don't think we have enough active volcanoes to handle entire countries worth of trash. I'm pretty sure for the most part the trash will either burn, causing huge amounts of garbage smoke into the air or it just clogs up the volcano I guess.

>> No.10588973

>>10588963

>Fill moon with trash increasing its mass.
>Moon no longer has a stable orbit around the earth and crashes down.
>This increases the mass of the earth.
>Earth no longer has a stable orbit and crashes slowly moving the sun.

>> No.10588985

>>10588973
Thus safely destroying the garbage in the sun. I don't see the problem.

>> No.10589004

>>10588956
Why don't we use garbage as nukes to terraform Mars?

>> No.10589258

>>10588838
Griding it to dust, separate by density, magnetism, recycle.

>> No.10589261

It would end up being the same as burning the garbage.

>> No.10589267

>>10588838
Volcanoes are not hot enough. You need something hotter in order to melt steel.

>> No.10589328

It would act as an incinerator and thus release all the crap an incinerator does.

>> No.10589331

>dumping trash down your bathroom faucet
Give me one reason why it wouldn't work.

>> No.10589399

>>10588838
Lava is dense.
Drop trash on it, burns on surface, and you've just got a more impractical incinerator.

>> No.10589403

>>10589261
Yeah, except you can't utilize the energy.

>> No.10589410

>>10588838
GARBAGE ROCKET LAUNCH TO THE SUN !

GARBAGE ROCKET LAUNCH TO THE SUN !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPJHu-vb-SE

>> No.10589452
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10589452

The US produces about 262 million tons (237 million metric tons) of garbage a year; about half of that is landfilled. So, with a 118 million metric tons - lets round that up to 150 million. The average density of garbage turns out to be 481 kg/m^3. So we need ~312 million cubic meters a year, or 31.2 billion for 100 years. A 20kmx20kmx100m space would hold that easily. I am sure we can find that much room in a desert or something. Thats less than 13x13 miles in freedom units.

>> No.10589482
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10589482

>Re-usable rockets
>Rockets go up with trash
>Trash is released towards the sun
>Rockets go back
>Pick up a new load

It's really fucking easy, just handle it.

>> No.10589494

>>10589482
You want to mine the planet hollow? Because that's how you mine the planet hollow.

>> No.10589516

>>10589267
Jet fuel?

>> No.10589524

>>10589494
Nah I think we're good.
By the time we could be sending into the sun
we could be mining asteroids and/or the moon.

>> No.10589544

>>10589482
The delta v needed to get something to the sun is way too high. Dump it on Venus instead.

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>>10588973

>>10588985

>> No.10589817

>>10588838
More importantly

Why don't we build thermometric plants on top of volcanoes?

>> No.10589844

>>10589817
> an unstable remote location that's prone to explode
> why don't people build there?
I've no idea.

>> No.10590893

>>10589817
Because shore of the sea has a lot of thermodynamics too and it doesn't get destroyed.