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by NotYourLawyer 1111 days ago
“Just” move a zillion tons of wood halfway across the earth.
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Wood floats the same way rocks don't. It's not an energy problem, it's a time problem.
That model only works in an ocean without currents, or with exclusively favorable currents. The weaker claim of, "we can expend minimal energy by taking a very long time to get there," perhaps even wind energy, might work though. I think we'd have to answer that empirically.
Wood floats, so that doesn't sound impossible.