cleantechnica.com — Bailing out the entire human race might turn out to be cheaper than bailing out Wall Street: Spray gigatons of seawater into the air, mainly in the Northern Hemisphere, and let Mother Nature do the rest, suggests inventor Ron Acer in a patent petition for “a colossal refrigeration system with a 100,000-fold performance multiplier.”
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nicejaiJan 6, 2009
Heat cannot escape into space the way you think it does. The only way an object in space/vacuum loses heat/energy is by radiating it, not through convection or conduction (space isn't cold).That's the whole global warming problem; the earth's atmosphere is not allowing the earth to radiate its excess energy back out into space. Rising temperatures is only the effect of this problem. =/
rikhavocJan 6, 2009
You didn't vote for Obama? That's a real surprise.
prefectionJan 6, 2009
A valid point, but this is a Futurama sub-thread. :)
dbass777Jan 7, 2009
I agree that we should not polute the environment and that is the problem with the global warming movement. It is a waste of good money that should be spent on things that will provide a benefit to humanity and our environment. Instead we are continually wasting billions of dollars on a cause that is useless. It's a shame that this money since this money would go a long way to solve REAL problems that we are facing. It does not make sense to pour money into a pit just to do it. We would be better served by using the money to provide food and medicine to the needy or to solve true polution problems such as smog or ground water contamination that is indeed affecting our health and our planet. It is shameful that people are using the name of science to establish themselves as an authority to con people into supporting their commercial endeavors the way that Al Gore is. We don't seem to realize that the basic principle of economics still apply. We have limited resources and using those resources in one place means that they are unavailable for use somewhere else. When we commit resources to a falicy we have then taken away those resources that could be well spent in other areas that will return a true benefit to someone other than those trying to line their own pockets in the name of science. Once exposed it also serves to the detriment of the true science community by wrecked credibility.
drdragunJan 7, 2009
Your rationale applies to a closed system. Earth is not a closed system in this case because we're talking external energy (solar radiation) entering the atmosphere to cause heating. Yes the water pumping and compression will generate lots of heat, but the resulting mist will be able to deflect many multiples of that in solar radiation.
drdragunJan 7, 2009
I always thought that was a cool idea too, but frankly it is outside of our capabilities right now. They had a hard enough time getting the centrifugal mylar sails to unfurl and that was on a craft that is only a few meters long. A solar shade would be roughly the size of Texas to block 1-3% of the incident solar light at the L1 position. It's not too much tonnage because mylar is so thin, but it would just be really difficult to keep that thing furled out and held in position. It would constantly experience the pull of gravity toward the sun, which can be cancelled by centripetal acceleration at the L1 point, but you still have to balance that with significant solar wind force that can vary a lot from day-to-day and put unbalancing loads on the disc.
countess666Jan 11, 2009
sun or wind is pretty reliable on the ocean in a lot of places. and its not really important of them to be on 24/7 now is it. as long as they meet their target over say the whole month/year... decade... and if they don't just add a few more.