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Title: 1,500 ships to fight climate change?
Post by: spic0m on September 08, 2008, 18:49:21 PM: According to UK and U.S. researchers, it should be possible to fight the global warming effects associated with an increase of dioxide levels by using autonomous cloud-seeding ships to spray salt water into the air.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/emergingtech/?p=1030
Title: Re: 1,500 ships to fight climate change?
Post by: Supernova on September 08, 2008, 22:52:27 PM: Good, ok, they are scientist. But it looks to me as science fiction. Maybe it will work, but... I believe there will be great side effects from this.

A question. Can someone tell e how these ships are propeled and how these turbines for the water are propelled?
Title: Re: 1,500 ships to fight climate change?
Post by: spic0m on September 08, 2008, 23:22:11 PM: They still discusing the idea, when and if they decide to make it reality then i assume they resolve the "minor" technicalities. ;D
Title: Re: 1,500 ships to fight climate change?
Post by: kam on September 08, 2008, 23:39:45 PM: This would be like taking aspirins for the headache rather than stop hitting your head with the hammer. I hope they will find a more elegant more efficient and more eco-friendly solution.
Title: Re: 1,500 ships to fight climate change?
Post by: spic0m on September 09, 2008, 17:18:43 PM: They only way i see to get rid of them is leave earth to destruct and start a new civilizitation. :)
Title: Re: 1,500 ships to fight climate change?
Post by: kam on September 09, 2008, 23:43:35 PM: Quote from: spic0m on September 09, 2008, 17:18:43 PM
They only way i see to get rid of them is leave earth to destruct and start a new civilizitation. :)
This WILL happen and maybe too fast.
This actually happens every some thousands years. it happened before, it will happen again. It may be a global flood, a comet, a global melt down, anything.
Title: Re: 1,500 ships to fight climate change?
Post by: Supernova on September 15, 2008, 16:07:53 PM: Quote from: spic0m on September 08, 2008, 23:22:11 PM
They still discusing the idea, when and if they decide to make it reality then i assume they resolve the "minor" technicalities. ;D

I would not call the movement of a ship "minor technicality". It is not a bicycle. It is a ship, and plus it has those huge hoses that they also need a respectable amount of power to operate.
Title: Re: 1,500 ships to fight climate change?
Post by: Mercury on September 16, 2008, 12:19:12 PM: He is talking about the far future that we will be able to have more efficient devices to produce power from sun or wind...
Title: Re: 1,500 ships to fight climate change?
Post by: kam on September 17, 2008, 14:01:04 PM: Quote from: Mercury on September 16, 2008, 12:19:12 PM
He is talking about the far future that we will be able to have more efficient devices to produce power from sun or wind...

It could also move with..... sails ;)
Title: Re: 1,500 ships to fight climate change?
Post by: Supernova on September 20, 2008, 20:45:43 PM: Such a HUGE ship with sails? It would be interesting to see it.
Title: Re: 1,500 ships to fight climate change?
Post by: spic0m on September 20, 2008, 22:51:38 PM: Why sails and wait for wind to blow? A couple of hundred rowers and a whip will do the job. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D