The oceans are enormous, but so is the rest of the world. Didn’t stop us from affecting most of it. As you say, the ocean may be big enough to handle some, but we can’t afford to dump it all in the ocean. The waste will not build up to a hill, it will in a very short time build up to a mountain.
Yeah, because “dump-it-and-forgett-it” hasn’t come back to haunt us in the past? We’ve got everything from toxic waste to old ammo and nuclear waste that are ticking time bombs we don’t know how to handle as is. But sure! Let’s add another one to the list!
The oceans are very big place though even the context of 4 million cubic meters per annum (assuming a 25% oil coverage target).
I am not saying we should give up on all other approaches, but it might worth considering this as part of a toolkit.
The oceans are enormous, but so is the rest of the world. Didn’t stop us from affecting most of it. As you say, the ocean may be big enough to handle some, but we can’t afford to dump it all in the ocean. The waste will not build up to a hill, it will in a very short time build up to a mountain.
And the ocean is many orders of magnitude larger than a mountain
Yeah, because “dump-it-and-forgett-it” hasn’t come back to haunt us in the past? We’ve got everything from toxic waste to old ammo and nuclear waste that are ticking time bombs we don’t know how to handle as is. But sure! Let’s add another one to the list!