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JakeGrey Wrote:No doubt StelOil has a team of experts whose services would be immediately offered on behalf of Stellvia Corporation and the entire Convention... for a price. No doubt. (Although most of the specialist team would be contractors.)
In the case of Deepwater Horizon, Noah would have requested costs-only ... and Yoriko would have talked him down from there.
JakeGrey Wrote:Although I quite like to imagine a discreet conversation taking place between representatives of 458 Tokio's... lower-profile community and relatives of the men killed in the explosion, after which money changes hands and several BP executives meet with dreadful accidents. That's somebody else's bailiwick.
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Another idea/question:
How feasible would it be to use Fen tech to clean up environmental disasters that occurred in the pre-handwavium era and are still dangerous places to inhabit (e.g. Love Canal, EPA Superfund sites, the area affected by the Chernobyl meltdown, etc.)? Basically the "goal", so to speak, could be to eventually make the affected areas more or less safely habitable again.
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Well dang, connection went funny losing the original version of this post. So this one will be quicker and rougher...
I can think of a few approaches:
* Yes, In My Back Yard: One approach is to scrape up the contaminated topsoil, cart it off elsewhere, and spread new topsoil on the site. Only, people tend to get upset if you say you want to cart a bunch of dangerously contaminated stuff and store/dispose of it in their neighborhood. On the other hand fen might be willing to take the topsoil for use as hard tech radiation shielding. Or they might accept it to experiment with the later solutions...
* Farming for Pollutants: I've read in the past about the possibility of using various plants to suck pollutants out of the ground (for decades long values of suck out of the ground), the first article I remember was actually about reclaiming post-WWIII fallout polluted ground. The general method appears to be planting an easily harvestable plants that also like to absorb the type of pollutant you're interested in Then at harvest you incinerate the plant and are left with a much more compact contaminated waste ash. Cart the ash away and there's less pollution left on site. Do it enough times and the ground is safe to play on or grow food crops on. With handwavium you might well be able to create plants that are more convenient to use in the soil cleansing process. Instead of incinerating the whole plant you might want a plant that concentrates the pollutants into harvestable nodules. Perhaps even ones pure enough to sell to industries that have use for the compounds.
* Ultimate Recycling Machinery: Imagine a box where you load stuff in one end, magic happens in the middle, and out the other end comes a stream of pure elements and compounds. Hard to build in real life, but potentially doable with handwavium. I expect it would have a boatload of quirks simply because of how much you'd be asking the wave to do even if you gave it as much hard tech as possible to work with. "Sigh. I told you, you need to plant trees on the cleaned ground or the box will refuse to keep working for you. It's not my requirement, it's the box's requirement. You want to try negotiating with a box then be my guest."
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Idea for a counterpoint: What about troublemakers exasperating or creating enviromental problems to get their way? Say, a pellucardian troublemaker/terrorist threatening to drill open a new volcano in a valuable region or something else similar? Might make for a good story.
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Sounds like the kind of thing OGJ Troubleshooters get called in to deal with.
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That it does ... although jurisdictional issues may require them to go in as Patrol agents, not Great Justice agents.
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True. Unless the local authorities specifically request Great Justice assistance, I suppose.
Which reminds me, I really should put in a request for a wiki account. We really do need an entry on tsundere sharks.
JakeGrey Wrote:True. Unless the local authorities specifically request Great Justice assistance, I suppose.
Which reminds me, I really should put in a request for a wiki account. We really do need an entry on tsundere sharks. I....
what.
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It was a one-line joke in my "OGJ Troubleshooters vs Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria" fic, based on a meme that was inexplicably huge on SpaceBattles for a while.
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Basically, someone put anime eyes and blush marks on pictures of sharks and added stereotypical "Sempai noticed me! uguuu~" captions.
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JakeGrey Wrote:... Which reminds me, I really should put in a request for a wiki account. ... Email me or Mal when you're ready.
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Quote:Threepony wrote:
Quote:JakeGrey wrote:
True. Unless the local authorities specifically request Great Justice assistance, I suppose.
Which reminds me, I really should put in a request for a wiki account. We really do need an entry on tsundere sharks.
I....
what.
Tsundere... Tsundere... TSUNDERE CATS HO!
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I'm sure Jenga has plenty of those.
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