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On 13 Jan 2005 17:02:35 GMT, d.webb@mdx.ac.uk wrote:
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>In article , Jimi writes:
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>>I believe it will be possible to lock all the plates but a planetwide
>>cooling system would have to be put in place to prevent catastrophe on
>>a global scale. clearly, the world economy will not be able to
>>support a megaproject like this for many hundreds if not thousands of
>>years. by this time, of course, sufficient computing power will be
>>available to accurately design such a system.
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>Plate Tectonics is linked to atmospheric composition through the carbon cycle.
>See http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~dilu/
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>Hence locking the plates would probably have a long term deleterious effect
>on the biosphere.
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>Therefore as well as a global cooling system to ensure that you did not get
>a continual pressure build up leading to an even more catastrophic outcome
than
>normal earthquakes you would also need to find a way of recycling carbon and
>probably a number of other beneficial side-effects of plate tectonics.
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Excellent point, thanks.
>David Webb
>Middle University
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