Re: Nanotechnology and earthquakes

From: Danny at Chrastina dot net (danny_at_chrastina.notreally)
Date: 01/13/05 

Date: 13 Jan 2005 20:17:26 GMT

On Thu, 13 Jan 2005 d.webb@mdx.ac.uk wrote:

> In article <cr6p0e02ma@enews1.newsguy.com>, Jimi <mraluminum@shaw.ca>
> writes:
>
>> I believe it will be possible to lock all the plates but a planetwide
>> cooling system would have to be put in place to prevent catastrophe on
>> a global scale. clearly, the world economy will not be able to support
>> a megaproject like this for many hundreds if not thousands of years.
>> by this time, of course, sufficient computing power will be available
>> to accurately design such a system.
>
> ... as well as a global cooling system to ensure that you did not get a
> continual pressure build up leading to an even more catastrophic outcome
> than normal earthquakes you would also need to find a way of recycling
> carbon and probably a number of other beneficial side-effects of plate
> tectonics.

         Without plate tectonics there would be no mountain building
(orogeny) so erosion would eventually turn the whole Earth into ocean. 

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