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by ericd 4791 days ago
Which would largely turn back into CO2 once the bacteria do their thing.
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Erm, I believe it would turn back into oil and coal, etc.
We're not entirely clear on how that works, and our best estimates are that it takes on the order of hundreds of thousands of years and requires quite a bit of pressure. The proposal above would basically be a deep landfill, and generally what will come from landfills in our lifetime is methane, CO2, dirty water, and a lot of garbage sitting around.