Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/08/27/global-warming-solved-just-bu.html
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It’s not going to be cheap, but hey—carbon sequestration efforts don’t grow on trees.
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Hey, the upside is we’ll be able to store SO MUCH grain!
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Instead of pyramids, can they be affordable housing?
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Strange how much easier it is to imagine cranking out carbon bricks with our machinery than it is to imagine turning that machinery OFF.
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And imagine how sharp it will keep your razor blades
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Welp, we’re definitely going to need the aliens’ help for that…
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Sure, 138,429.75 carbon pyramids, but who are we going to enslave to build them?
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from many years ago
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Does that include the carbon cost of running the carbon-pyramid creating machines? Or do we need a set of smaller machines creating smaller carbon pyramids to offset the cost, and then even smaller machines to offset their costs. It’s Pyramids all the way down.
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Great Pyramid tombs unearth ‘proof’ workers were not slaves
So, Gig workers, then?
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Sure, if you amalgamate the entire world’s efforts into a single number, it’s a lot. But globally, we produce enough plastic each year to make… [looks up the numbers]… 150 Giza pyramids? Uh, ok, that’s a fuck-ton of carbon. We should probably stop producing so much.
Yeah, although to be fair, if we turn the machines off, we still need to sequester some Giza-pyramids worth of carbon on a regular basis to get things under control. Just not nearly so many.
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Yes, exactly. Its a pyramid scheme
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Robots for construction – but the big problem is, where do we put them? I envisage a cosmic Tetris scenario with los pyramidos falling from the sky in stacks in Algeria. Fence-in the lower levels, let the pressure mount, and we get solid diamond for building fusion reactors.
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Could we use the pyramids as tombs, the original purpose? Maybe bury a notable victim of the Trump Plague in each of them?
How flammable would those pyramids be?
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“ these pyramids would do nothing.”
Grain silos.
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Nope, it says “enough carbon to fill 138,462 pyramids”, so we’re not storing anything besides the carbon
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the analogy is just to imagine the scale. actually building pyramids would waste a lot of space. using the bricks or whatever to form e.g. costal bulwarks against the rising oceans is something that would actually get funded.
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I’ve read a couple of articles that link the religious devotion of the workers as the likely driving force. In some ways their religion was egalitarian - various methods of communicating with the gods and speaking holes at the back of temples etc… - allowed everyone to have a fairly personal stake in it. It’s cool. It’s somewhat less cool that this devotion was exploited to get average Joe to build monuments for a few guys.
For a really cool example of a collectively built monument it’s worth checking out Poverty Point.
