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Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration — HN submission

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 04:33:44 GMT

Nuclear Explosion for Carbon Sequestration

43 points; 64 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.

Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration — HN submission

Wed, 09 Jul 2025 13:08:18 GMT

Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration

1 point; 0 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.

Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration — mentioned by briandw

Fri, 04 Jul 2025 01:07:08 GMT

Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06623 seems more promising, I love that there is more research and interest in accelerated weathering

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Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration — HN submission

Tue, 18 Feb 2025 05:34:30 GMT

Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration [pdf]

2 points; 0 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.

Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration — mentioned by rafaelmn

Sat, 15 Feb 2025 18:24:26 GMT

I recently saw a video by Sabine on this paper https://arxiv.org/html/2501.06623v1 that basically proposes blowing up a gigantic nuclear bomb in deep sea basalt deposit and basalt would capture the carbon. In the paper they did some math on the bomb size needed to reverse 30 years of carbon emissions, and it's huge (orders of magnitude larger than what we tested so far), although I don't understand why it needs to be one huge bomb. I'm sure you could try it with one military head and test the impact. Interesting approach in any case.

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Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration — mentioned by acc_297

Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:50:20 GMT

I won't watch that video just right now but I assume the paper is this one: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2501.06623 And I'll include this colourful quote: "This is orders of magnitude larger than the largest nuclear explosion ever detonated, so this is not to be taken lightly." I quickly read through and may have missed it but I do not see any mention of the timescale over which this would work just that it could sequester ~30 years worth of CO2 output.

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Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration — mentioned by tim333

Sat, 15 Feb 2025 17:24:58 GMT

There was an interesting idea to fix climate change by carbon capture for ~$10bn in a recent Sabine video >A Big Nuclear Bomb Could Fix Climate Change, Physicist Says https://youtu.be/aGPKpx6pMko Just put some huge nukes in the basalt at the bottom of the Indian Ocean, it breaks it up so the rock absorbs CO2, job done! (paper on the idea https://arxiv.org/html/2501.06623v1)

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Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration — HN submission

Sat, 08 Feb 2025 17:30:39 GMT

Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration

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Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration — HN submission

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 06:40:10 GMT

Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration

6 points; 1 discussion reply on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.

Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration — HN submission

Fri, 31 Jan 2025 16:36:23 GMT

Nuclear Explosions for Large Scale Carbon Sequestration

6 points; 4 discussion replies on HN. Paper and source history. A submission is not an endorsement.