Should nuclear bombs be developed for peacefull purposes such as canal construction or mining. We could reduce Alberta's labor demand and carbon emmissions if nuclear ecplosions were used in the Athabaska for instance.

   

Except nuclear explosions have this nasty habit of irradiating the land upon which they're detonated making the land virtually uninhabitable for a good century.

   

Weapons of Mass Construction?

   

Well, you have the radiation problem. However, if you used fusion warheads, the radiation wouldn't be as bad. And the explosion materials used don't emit carbon dioxide. They emit water vapor and nitrogen oxide.

I am quite surprised that there hasn't been automation up in Canada. I know there are like 100 robotic miners that mine 1/3 of US coal (Modern Marvels).

   

Allmost all of our coal mines are open pit strip mines,they do use robots for other underground mining here,not sure where but saw it on discovery channel.

   

Oh crap, that could be problem, unless we reduce carbom emiosions be 3800%, which I doubt.



Open pit mines do not have the risk of cavins so miners make less and the mines are able to use bigger machines which in many ways is the same as automation.

   

Yup,I used to run the worlds largest loader loading the worlds largest rock trucks.The miners make as much as or more then the guys did underground before they closed them all down here.

Used to like it when the satelite gps dispatch system would crash,so much for automation.

   

Actually it would be very logical, pollution wise, to fusion Bomb(H-bomb) INDIA/CHINA into oblivion. The fallout risk would be minimal compared to the elimination of all their polution.

   

Why stop with them? If we go ahead and wipe humanity off the globe, I will guarentee we will meet the Kyoto deadline...and then some.

   

   

A) Depends on the bomb design.
B) Depends on how deep/shallow/low/high the explosion is.
C) Hiroshima and Nagasaki are both inhabited to today.

   

Russia tried that during the 1960s. I saw it on a Nature of Things special on Nuclear weapons a few years back. They would plant the bomb deep down and blow it to make lakes and canals.

If they used that fungus that is living off the radiation in Chernobyl it may have less of an impact. But still, nuclear weapons do have that tendancy to be nasty.

   

Only a Canadian could come up with the idea of constructing nuclear bombs for "peaceful purposes."

   

It wasn't us, it was those sneaky Russians I swear.

   

What about Ike?