Horace Heffner posted;
Given that all else fails to stop global warming, and action is taken soon enough that a 10 percent reduction in the solar insolation factor over the
I've heard some grand schemes Horace, and this is one of the grandest.
Assuming the deployment of this amount of payload can get the price down to $10,000/kg, the cost of deployment is (1.66x10^8 kg)($10,000/kg) =
I've been told that the Russians will place it in low earth orbit for $100 per pound, plus inflation. Therefore we should be able to get the job done for way less than $10,000 per K gram, unless we were to hire NASA as a contractor, of course.
Ultimately the nanopowder will reenter the earth's atmosphere, but before doing so, might tend to form an equatorial ring, which will continue to
Nothing lasts forever.
process, and all the carbon in the gas is converted to construction materials, the carbon dioxide in the earth's atmosphere hopefully would diminish at a sufficient rate to avoid runaway warming.
How about building massive Newman motors in the Arctic? Their operation would cool down the environment and the energy they produce can be used to reduce the carbon.
Now if we can figure out what to do about those pesky volcanos and the rocks that may be hitting the Sun
I hope I got this all right. It's late.
The time truly is late
