You definitely won't regret doubling the mass of our atmosphere!

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• tensorpudding@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  How does the saying go, the only thing that can stop a bad air pollutant with a gun is a good air pollutant with a gun?

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  More dense atmosphere means strapping some feathers to your arms and flapping like a bird could actually work.

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  • Noja@sopuli.xyz ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    This would work best in an atmosphere of tungsten hexafluoride, which is the heaviest gas in the world. It’s ~11 times heavier than air. The downside is that you would melt down to a brown sludge.

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    • LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It’s the sludge part that really throws a wrench into it for me.

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    • krashmo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Sounds like a win to me

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• PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Wait how does Hydrogen -> Ozone?

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  • Tudsamfa@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It doesn’t… I may have replaced the wrong text.

    In any case, what would you say is the best property of having more hydrogen gas in the atmosphere? Make it quick, I need to sell a few pentawatthours to world leaders.

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    • degenerate_neutron_matter@fedia.io ⁨42⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

      We can react the hydrogen with CO2 in the atmosphere to produce hydrocarbons and water. The water goes back into the electrolysis system, and the hydrocarbons can be put back underground where they belong. As a bonus it gets rid of some extra CO2!

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    • anton@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It floats up and gets striped first by solar winds, like a shield protecting the ozone layer.

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• LovableSidekick@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Even if this would work with no complications from increasing atmospheric pressure, electrolyzing 0.5% of the ocean with present-day technology would take more than 200,000 years. So yeah, that’s plenty of time to invent new tech to reduce the time, but say some miracle invention reduced it immediately by 2 orders of magnitude, it would still take more than 2000 years.

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• teft@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ok, ok, ok. But hear me out. Instead of ozone, zeppelins!

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• LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t think adding other gases will reduce the amount of radiation carbon dioxide absorbs lol

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  • deranger@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It will dilute it and reduce the effect, sorta like reducing the reflectivity of a mirror.

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    • LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I don’t think so. There’s still the same amount of carbon between the earth and space, so it’s still going to have the same effect of blocking IR that’s moving to escape the earth’s climate system.

      If anything the extra gases will simply trap more heat on their own, although probably less so than the CO2 does.

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• Elting@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  HUH?!! WHATS THAT? I CANT HEAR YOU OUT OF THE BLOOD IN MY EARS.

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