(June 8, 2018 at 10:59 am)Khemikal Wrote: Minor nitpick..but..electronics are among our most toxic forms of waste. Any significant amount of them in the ocean does present a known risk. That risk is as significant as the installation itself would be. Dump a few boards in the bay, nbd......server farms underwater......whole different bag of worms.
They;d have to keep a pretty tight handle on extracting units for proper disposal whenever the need arose....or get some sweetheart polluter provisions.
(they;d opt for the latter, and we;d give it to them, lol)
That is true, but unless the capsule is totally smashed, as might happen if a big ship dropped an anchor on it or ran aground on top of it, the solid toxic material will remain contained inside the damaged hull of the capsule, and the rate of leakage of toxic material out of the hill will be very slow, giving plenty of time to pull the damaged capsule out of the ocean. It is liquid or gas waste that will likely quickly leak out through minor or moderate damage to the capsule Hull.
