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Eugen Leitl wrote:<br>
<blockquote cite="mid20050110152133.GI9221@leitl.org" type="cite"><>On
Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 07:38:47PM -0600, Extropian Agroforestry Ventures
Inc. wrote:</></blockquote>
<blockquote cite="mid20050110152133.GI9221@leitl.org" type="cite"><>A
solar energy satellite-based redirection project to intensify solar <br>
energy availablity in the mid and north latitudes<br>
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Allright, what's the price tag to launch 100 kT to some 2 Mm orbit, and even
assuming pure hydrogen/oxygen motors, how much havoc will this wreck to the
atmosphere?
I mean, really.
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Perhaps moon based manufacturing launched by mass driver or space
elavator.<br>
This would be a good reason to get manned lunar bases built and
operating.<br>
The first uses could beam energy back to the moon for
manufacturing/smelting and become a resource <br>
If required later on for earth<br>
based applications such as climate modifications.<br>
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<br>
<blockquote cite="mid20050110152133.GI9221@leitl.org" type="cite"><>might
become a backup just in case we get our first shot of rebound cold <br>
before we get the polar caps sucessfully melted and<br>
learn to control the new more dynamic ecosystem. <br>
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We don't know what we're doing, but we'll just double the effort.
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The rate of knowlege about climate mechanisms will continue to
appreciate over the time required to<br>
develop and deploy a modification system. If computational capacity
continues to increase, the systems required to<br>
model global environment modulation simulations will be developed in
the next 10 -15 years. <br>
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<pre wrap="">One of the most dangerous things today is the use of annual species for
ag production.
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One of the most idiotic thing is mismanagement of existing biosystems.
E.g. if you try to prevent periodic burns in SoCal, you only accrue
combustibles, and the eventually resulting conflagration will be much harder
to control.
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This mismanagement is more an economic issue than environmental.<br>
Excess combustibles for example would not accrue if the species were
harvested on a rotational basis.<br>
If human labour is unjustified, then perhaps John Deere might develop
prototype robotic harvesters<br>
under DARPA funding which would have eventual civilian biomass
harvesting applications.<br>
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The entire ag economy is driven by economics that only plan 2-5 years
into the future....given the BSE experience <br>
here in Canada I should have said 1 year in advance because the ag
economy simply does not plan for<br>
change.<br>
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<blockquote cite="mid20050110152133.GI9221@leitl.org" type="cite"><>If
some disaster or crisis removed the farmer from the picure worldwide <br>
for more than<br>
2 years the seed necessary to replace the crops could be nonexistant.<br>
Moving the ag production genetics into perennial species is one way to <br>
alter the CO2 use VS creation ratio.<br>
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Want to reduce CO2, invest in building insulation. And passive solar.
What is government there for if not to enforce unpopular decisions? Giving
hefty tax breaks for this should be sufficient motivation.
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This last round of energy price increases once worked entirely through
the economy<br>
should produce a new round of conservation measures.<br>
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