[extropy-chat] Save the World

Sun Feb 11 22:17:17 UTC 2007

It's like a pair of sunglasses for the planet... very cool.

Also, personally I'd be building a *lot* of nuclear reactors, and shutting
down coal power stations. Especially here in good-ole uranium rich,
tectonically inert Australia. Build a few more than we need to power some
bitchin' desalination plants, and we just might be able to keep living on
this denuded dirtwad for a coupla more years. But that's just me...

Emlyn

On 11/02/07, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 12:13:48PM +1030, Emlyn wrote:
> >
> >    Couldn't we darken the atmosphere to counteract the greenhouse
> effect?
> >    Kind of nuclear winter vs global warming...
>
> Instead of investing in cleaner jet fuels, he'd better
> 1) make them burn dirty, preferrably inject ice nucleators
> 2) fly high, as high as possible
> 3) long-term, fly with synfuel or cryogenic hydrogen as fuel, made from
> renewable sources
>
> Global dimming needs a comeback.
>
> As to "scrubbing greenhouse gaess out of the atmosphere",
> that's a red herring. They're are already being rather efficiently
> scrubbed, what is needed is reducing our emissions. And it doesn't
> take 25 megabucks to figure out how, we already know.
>
> >
> >
> >
> >    Emlyn
> >
> >
> >    On 11/02/07, Damien Broderick <[1]thespike at satx.rr.com> wrote:
> >
> >      At 07:48 PM 2/10/2007 -0500, Keith wrote:
> >      > >
> >      > > >  I had to come
> >      > > >up with a way the energy and carbon crisis was solved.  That
> >      led to notes
> >      > > >so extensive as to almost constitute a business plan.
> >      > >
> >      > >Send them to Richard Branson, collect $25 million.
> >      >
> >      >Any though as to how one might show something to Richard Branson?
> >      why, yes, in general terms:
> >      Airline tycoon Richard Branson has announced a
> >      $US25 million ($A32m) prize for the first person
> >      to come up with a way of scrubbing greenhouse
> >      gases out of the atmosphere in the battle to beat global warming.
> >      Flanked by climate campaigners former US
> >      vice-president Al Gore and British ex-diplomat
> >      Crispin Tickell, Sir Richard said he hoped the
> >      Virgin Earth Challenge would spur innovative and
> >      creative thought to save mankind from self-destruction.
> >      The prize will initially be open for five years,
> >      with ideas assessed by a panel of judges
> >      including Sir Richard, Mr Gore and Mr Tickell as
> >      well as Australian environmentalist Tim Flannery,
> >      US climate scientist James Hansen and Briton
> >      James Lovelock. "Man created the problem and
> >      therefore man should solve the problem," he said.
> >      "Unless we can devise a way of removing CO 2
> >      (carbon dioxide) from the Earth's atmosphere we
> >      will lose half of all species on Earth, all the
> >      coral reefs, 100 million people will be
> >      displaced, farmlands will become deserts and rainforests
> >      wastelands."
> >      Sir Richard rejected suggestions that he, as an
> >      airline owner, was being hypocritical in offering
> >      the prize. "I could ground my airline today, but
> >      British Airways would simply take its place," he
> >      said, noting that he was investing in cleaner engines and fuels.
> >      Top scientists predict that global average
> >      temperatures will rise by between 1.8 and four
> >      degrees this century due to human activities such
> >      as burning fossil fuels, putting millions at risk
> >      from rising sea levels, floods, famines and storms.
> >      Mr Gore, whose campaign film An Inconvenient
> >      Truth has helped spread the message, said all
> >      science showed something was drastically wrong
> >      but that Armageddon was not inevitable.
> >      The winner must devise a way of removing 1
> >      billion tonnes of carbon gases a year from the
> >      atmosphere for 10 years  with $US5 million
> >      ($AS6.4m) of the prize being paid at the start and the rest at the
> >      end.
> >      If no winner is identified after five years the
> >      judges can decide to extend the period.
> >      "This is the world's first deliberate attempt at
> >      planetary engineering," Dr Flannery said via
> >      video-link from Sydney. "We are at the last
> >      moment. Once we reach the tipping point it will
> >      have been taken out of our hands."
> >      REUTERS
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