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Daylight Donating Member (72 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 04:47 PM
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Cloud ship' scheme to deflect the sun's rays is favourite to cut global warming
The project, which is being worked on by rival US and UK scientists, would see 1,900 wind-powered ships ply the oceans sucking up seawater and spraying minuscule droplets of it out through tall funnels to create large white clouds.
These clouds, it is predicted, would reflect around one or two per cent of the sunlight that would otherwise warm the ocean, thereby cancelling out the greenhouse effect caused by Carbon Dioxide emissions.

The unmanned ships would be directed by satellite to areas with the best conditions for increasing cloud cover, mainly in the Pacific and far enough away from land so as not to affect normal rainfall patterns.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/globalwarming/5987229/Cloud-ship-scheme-to-deflect-the-suns-rays-is-favourite-to-cut-global-warming.html
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ddeclue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 04:50 PM
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1. ummm stupid and what would power their pumps? an internal combustion engine?
you fix the problem by stopping the cause not by band-aiding it.
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Renew Deal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 04:50 PM
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2. What could possibly go wrong?
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leeroysphitz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 04:55 PM
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3. Since the dawn of time man has YEARNED to destroy the sun.
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Skink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 05:03 PM
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4. Monsoon season seams longer this year.
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RC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 05:20 PM
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5. Why do visions of unintended consequences loom large?
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thereismore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-07-09 05:23 PM
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6. I guess if you do this "far away" from land, we'll be just fine. Hmm... salty rain destroying
Edited on Fri Aug-07-09 05:24 PM by thereismore
food crops and arable land for millennia, globally altered weather patterns...
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