World GDP: $105.4 trillion USD
How effective would it be to sprinkle CEO dust into the sky?
Not at all. Much cheaper to sprinkle them in the hog trough
I’m not saying we should try it and find out, but I’ve heard worse ideas.
Amazing. Instead of just… fighting climate change by not polluting the planet let’s just fill our entire atmosphere with diamond dust, because that’s the logical decision of course.
It’s not really any different than usual dust, other than it is even more likely to scratch your phone (oh no!). The surprising thing is the bullshit price number, I’m sure it’s some brain-dead economist looking at the point-price for diamond and with great effort making a single multiplication.
Edit: The study does note industrial diamond manufacturing, but doesn’t go into detail on why it’s so expensive for diamond powder, other than saying “it would require much more industrial diamond than is currently produced”… Which is just… Empty? Considering industry would change to account for such a drastic rise in demand.
The artificially-inflated price of the diamonds should be irrelevant in this calculation.
Sweet! Four more years of Trump presidency, and Elon Musk can just pay for it out of pocket.
Elon musk’s kids should be made an example of when reclamation comes around.
They’re being brought up thinking they can live like gods. How unfortunate would it be if they actually had to live like the rest of us…
The silicosis will run rampant
Break into the diamond company vaults and just take it. Bam, free diamonds.
Yes, let’s just have everyone on Earth breathe in diamond dust all day every day. There’s no way that could be bad for our health.
There’s never been a case of something having different behavior or health effects just because of a tiny chemical difference (trans fat) or size difference (micro plastics), what’s the worst that could happen?
There have never been lung issues caused by inhaling very small dust particles, right?
Of all the aerosols they could think about!
No chance at all of a basically indestructible material not being destructed if absorbed by lungs (or gills) and leading to some disease. You don’t need to check. There’s no way this could go wrong.
Or, rather… I believe lead is cheaper… Given how much people like to use it, maybe it’s a better option.
Diamond Lung.
Sounds posh.
I was thinking asbestos…
Whatever you do, don’t look up silicosis. Not a problem at all. Not relevant.
Yeah, like asbestos… if asbestos bio-accumulated forever.
Instead, the world has a few mechanisms that will make asbestos harmless after a few generations. Not so much for diamonds.
We’re carbon based lifeforms and diamonds, yep, made of carbon. What could possibly go wrong!? /s
They got a headline. Mission achieved.
Can we use zirconium for $1 trillion?
How much if we use rhinestones?
So what would it cost to replace all fossil fuel energy with renewable?
You might find this 10-month-old Vlogbrothers video interesting.
Thanks, hadn’t seen that before. I wonder how things like “eat less beef” fit into that chart, or of that’s part of the $0 premium.
You are missing the point, because we need to do that anyway.
The idea is to prevent things from getting worse in the meantime.
Replacing fossil fuels take time no matter how much we invest.ok but you just know corporations are going to use this as an excuse to keep using fossil fuels. like to them this is basically carte blanche to keep the status quo and block green energy from happening even harder. “oh hurdur har har we found a solution to climate change and it’s dumping diamonds in the atmosphere, no need to pay for green energy anymore haha” type shit
corporations are going to use this as an excuse to keep using fossil fuels.
Corporations follow the law, the only way to solove this is to have the laws required.
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Someone heard The Beatles (or maybe Rihanna) for their first time and thought “Diamonds in the sky… Huh… What if…”.
I’m still set on “we’re fucked” until I see some more hopeful news.
When we are fucked and who is first fucked, and making sure I’m not that guy is what I’m trying to determine.
That amount sounds like total bullshit. Diamonds can be manufactured and once that is done at scale, it won’t be all that expensive. Even at $10000 a ton, five million tonnes would cost just 50 billion.
That number is for doing it anually for 65 years. It lists roughly 18 billion per year for the cost.
But besides that, I think you are greatly underestimating the cost of the diamonds. Synthetic ones are way cheaper than natural ones, yes, but there’s a lot of room between “natural diamond expensive” and “actually cheap”. Going by these prices https://www.diamondtech.com/products/categories/diamond_powder_price_list.html
It’s $2.5 million per tonne. I assume you could get a cheaper price per weight if you’re buying five million tonnes of anything, but it’s still two orders of magnitude more expensive than you are guessing
Firstly, it’s 5 million tonnes per year. For 65 years. Secondly, the cost is for a 65 year SAI program, including developing the tech and running the missions. Thirdly, this is all explained in TFA or the links therein.
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$10000/ton is $5/lb from a quick google search they are about $250/lb for industrial diamonds. So 50* 50 or 2500 billion or 2.5 trillion with no idea if they can use run of the mill industrial diamonds or if there will be additional processing to get them into the aerosolized form also how are you going to launch them, and for how many years would we need to do it
Nice try, DeBeers.
It’s not cost effective to save humanity. Stock prices would crash.
