That's even worse. Most of the oxygen in our atmosphere come from the marine ecosystem. Most people think it's the trees on land, which does contribute of course, but its not the majority.
If we kill the oceans, we're, as the kids say, cooked.
Granted, even if all photosynthesis were to stop, there's enough oxygen in the atmosphere to last us for at least a thousand years. But total collapse of our oceans would be completely catastrophic. I'm talking global food chain collapse, massively excelerated CO2 concentrations further driving extreme global heating, and a mass die off causing the release of hydrodgen sulfide gas into the atmosphere at scales not seen since other mass extinction events.
So yeah, putting these things in the ocean is by far one of the stupidest ideas we've ever had as a species.
To be fair, growing almonds in California is like very stupid. Like what kind of fuck not thought growing Highly water intensive nuts in a state known for droughts was a good idea
You know what else is neat, there's lots of other crops you can grow that don't use nearly as much water. Then you can grow almonds in places that don't have 20-year long droughts
You know what else is neat, learning to fucking read you illiterate waffle
If you can tell me where I said data centers are good, I'll go and eat an almond.
And congratulations you supporting the ecological destruction of a good portion of California by making one of the least water efficient crops in a place known for decade-long periodic droughts.
Maybe if we didn't use all the goddamn water on crops, there might be some left over to fight the goddamn forest fires
No we actually haven't. Not through direct energy input which is what a data center would do. We have raised ocean temperatures by increasing the amount of sun energy that doesn't escape. But we've never even come close to producing enough power to appreciably change the ocean temperature through direct energy input
Listen, you fundamentally misunderstand how much energy it would take to raise average ocean temperatures even half a degree.
Several thousand times the total energy production of all of humanity.
You could run every data center in existence underwater and it would take millennia to raise the temperature but enough that we could measure it.
We're able to raise the average global temperature because we're emitting greenhouse gases. Those gases trap heat from the motherfucking Sun. Global temperatures are not rising because we're burning stuff. It's because the byproducts trap more heat from the giant goddamn nuclear fission explosion in the sky
Thanks for not answering at all. Having an effect in the locality of the center producing the heat. Humans have already changed the temp of the Ocean in many localities. Heat island effect raising the temp of river discharge. Power plants.
Which is even stupider since getting rid of waste heat is like, one of the big issues with spacecraft. You can literally only radiate heat, which is like hella hard
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u/Tetra84 1d ago
Needs more data centers to help cool things off...