1,500 ships to fight climate change?

[spic0m]

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

[Supernova]

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?

[spic0m]

They still discusing the idea, when and if they decide to make it reality then i assume they resolve the "minor" technicalities.

[kam]

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.

[spic0m]

They only way i see to get rid of them is leave earth to destruct and start a new civilizitation. 

[kam]

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.

[Supernova]

They still discusing the idea, when and if they decide to make it reality then i assume they resolve the "minor" technicalities.

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.

[Mercury]

He is talking about the far future that we will be able to have more efficient devices to produce power from sun or wind...

[kam]

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 

[Supernova]

Such a HUGE ship with sails? It would be interesting to see it.

[spic0m]

Why sails and wait for wind to blow? A couple of hundred rowers and a whip will do the job.