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If it displaces fossil fuels, definitely.

It still wouldn't change the tons and tons of nitrogen fertilizer runoff that is going into our oceans and creating the oxygen poor "dead zones".

Nor would it stop every seafaring nation on the planet from overfishing (they all do).

And don't forget all that radiation from Fukashima that's already in the Pacific.

But at least it would help the CO2 problem. It might be too late for that however. The current CO2 is already in our atmosphere, so unless we have a really good method (and the resources and want to implement that plan) to fix it back into the ground we're still going to see it's accumulated effects. Combine that with the already smaller polar ice caps which aren't reflecting as much sun and we might already be past the point of no return.

I dunno, I think we're fucked and there's really no solution other than a drastic decrease in the human population.




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