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Chlorine trifluoride! Nasty, NASTY shit. Guess which industry I worked in as safety!

Edit: I remembered this quote about ClF₃ from John D. Clark's book "Ignition!" and wanted to share. For the non-scientists, hypergolic means it'll ignite on contact with another substance without an outside energy source, like a spark.

It is, of course, extremely toxic, but that’s the least of the problem. It is hypergolic with every known fuel, and so rapidly hypergolic that no ignition delay has ever been measured. It is also hypergolic with such things as cloth, wood, and test engineers, not to mention asbestos, sand, and water-with which it reacts explosively. It can be kept in some of the ordinary structural metals-steel, copper, aluminium, etc.-because of the formation of a thin film of insoluble metal fluoride which protects the bulk of the metal, just as the invisible coat of oxide on aluminium keeps it from burning up in the atmosphere. If, however, this coat is melted or scrubbed off, and has no chance to reform, the operator is confronted with the problem of coping with a metal-fluorine fire. For dealing with this situation, I have always recommended a good pair of running shoes.

https://archive.ph/iSG7w

For anyone else who doesn't want an account but wants to read the article.

Seeing you post this in response to multiple posts is the highlight of my day.

Trauma that can give the same responses.

That's me! Early in therapy for CPTSD, we spent some time trying to determine if I'm autistic or just have autistic tendencies due to CPTSD. Turns out it was the latter.

The best windshield wiper fluid in Finland!

Maybe it's a 55 gallon lube barrel?

The water just dilutes back into the rest of the ocean, lowering its average carbon content a minuscule amount. It'll take a year or less for it to reabsorb as much atmospheric CO2 as was removed and for any carbon compounds altered by the pH changes to revert. It'll likely hit peak CO2 before that point. This isn't a big deal unless it's done at massive scale in concentrated areas.

An "easy" way to handle this is to return the water to the deep ocean, where it's less impactful to ocean life and has a much larger area in which to dilute.

It's gasuous CO2. The process pulls in water, acidifies it to release carbon as CO2 to air in a sealed space, pumps that water to the next phase which adjusts the pH back up to normal, then the carbon poor water is pumped back into the ocean.

Meanwhile, the CO2 in the previously mentioned sealed space is concentrated up to about 98%, but it's still a gas. While this may or may not be a more efficient extraction system, it still has the same issue all extraction systems face: what to do with the extracted gas.

Here's their proposal with the details.

Or this guy?

100%. I still enjoy reading Asimov and Heinlein despite them being bigots. I just don't support the behavior and call it out for being bad when I see it.

You can also track aggregate up and down votes per user! You're a solid +13 for me, you're cool.

Anecdotal evidence is worth less than nothing.

Or build up in the sewer with shit and grease. President Fatberg.

I felt my blood pressure spiking from just reading this. I'm glad you were okay!

As a biologist, I'm always so happy with how versed your average Lemming is on evolution versus the bad place.

I have it, the hypermobile type (hEDS)

Upside: reduced likelihood of osteoarthritis

Downside: all the pain, doctors think you're crazy

I bet they loved Iron Sky.

Look into Ehlers - Danlos Syndrome, a connective tissue disorder. Sufferers describe similar symptoms.

Garbage grifters.