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Originally Posted by captaincarot  ........, yours a fellow sheffielder, (physicist)  |
You're forgiven! Actually some of my best friends are physicists and chemists and I have many a happy argument .... although ecologists tend to seek biological solutions to problems while 'hard' scientists tend to go for engineering solutions. I suspect that engineering causes as many problems as it cures (see the 'lime the sea' suggestion that I quoted).
There's another one on the same page which I hadn't taken in:
"His proposal is to build a fleet of remote-controlled, energy-self-sufficient ships that would spray minuscule droplets of seawater into the air. The droplets would whiten and expand clouds, reflecting sunlight away from the Earth and into space."
You'll see the problem - the mists would be low level which means that the Earth surface would cool
but the upper atmosphere (still with increasing greenhouse gas levels) would be having heat-radiation thrown
at it from both directions!
In one of my debates recently I suggested that the best replacement for carbon-burning as an energy source would be solar radiation. My engineer friend's reply was that the albedo created by massed ranks of solar panels would counteract any savings .... on reflection, I'm not convinced and would like to see some calculations!
