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It cannot be fixed with robots. Thousands of R2D2s running into mines with fire extinguishers wouldn't make a dent. These are fires spread throughout many square-miles, cubic-miles, of permeable rock. Quenching them must involve external containment. Massive concrete domes/walls surrounding the burning material. Then you must wait many many years for temperatures to cool. It is a multi-decade project imho.


The best time to start such a project would have been decades ago. The second best time is today.

It could be a good jobs program and perhaps the concrete barriers could be built as functional structures for the local community?


We can't even get government funding for less CO2-heavy power plants, let alone putting out fires that don't directly harm anyone with an unknown success rate.


Let's not overfocus on the word robot in my statement, as it was not the point I was making.




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