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[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Dig a hole, anywhere, there's a chance it'll fill with water. Especially with climate change. We're seeing moisture getting dropped in areas at greater frequencies that didn't happen decades ago. There's no guarantee you can dig a hole anywhere on earth that wouldn't become apart of our aquifers as the water travels back to the ocean.

[–] p1mrx@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sealing a deep narrow borehole isn't a difficult problem. The Earth has contained oil and gas underground for millions of years.

[–] Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Its contained it using geological features but once exposed how is it possible to recreate that. Its also not like this material is goo

[–] Olgratin_Magmatoe@startrek.website 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is no guarantee of anything.

But if you're storing it hundreds of miles from the ocean, the risk is minimal.

[–] Touching_Grass@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It isn't really minimal since the water cycle on earth is all connected.

Water in the ocean evaporates. It's carries inland by Hadley cells that deposit the moisture inland. It gets dumped on the highest points which all run back the ocean and creating all our aquifers along the way. Those aquifers feed our great lakes and wells.

But you're suggesting we bury toxic material that remains toxic for hundreds or thousands of years somewhere remote that would just be high up in that water cycle. In places where private companies would be out of the eyes of watchdog groups