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I was just continuing the conversation, I didn't mean you said we should burn oil. I see how that is a possible reading tho, my b
Yeah, salt has it's issues but I see it as the easiest and possibly least disruptive option. We'd "just" have to implement a fleet of autonomous sail boats with solar powered mist makers sucking ocean water and misting it up
It's all good. I can see that point, but it's unfortunately a bandaid (semi-short term cooling strategy) on a sucking wound (too much CO2 in the atmosphere), and if I trusted the world powers to continue solving the issue (Atmospheric Carbon Capture) before sepsis set (salting the earth from aeroslizing sea water) in, I'd be less opposed.