Global Warming A Temporary Solution...
So how do we mitigate global warming in the short term? In a word Sun Shades... alright that's two words.
What the hell am I talking about?
First of all you produce a great big plastic sheet, say two hundred miles in diameter. You know… the kind that Cristo used to wrap those Islands with.
Then you mold some reinforcements into it, maybe wire or some carbon composit.
You mold tubes into it that radiate out from the center
You build a central processing unit that has all communications, guidance, solor power, gas cylindar and thrusters in it.
Then you roll it up and put it in the shuttle or a rocket.
Then you shoot it into a geosynchronous orbit over the highest value targets like either pole, the glaciers that are racing into the ocean, spots in the Atlantic and Pacific where hurricanes and typhoons spawn and so on and so forth.
Once in orbit you deploy the really big Sun Shade over the target by filling the tubes with the gas from teh central cylindar and voila you have the first man made global warming mitigation device ever placed in space.
Now we need to digress to an example of how to get the biggest bang for the buck. Remember when you were a kid and you made shadow puppets on the movie screen? When you put your hands real close to the screen you covered a smaller area then when you put them closer to the projector. The moral of this story is the closer our plastic Sun Shade is to the sun the more area we're going to cover and thus the greater bang for the buck.
Advantages of this solution are:
1) It is relatively inexpensive and low tech.
2) This solution is easily reversible. If the Sun Shade idea turns out to be too drastic a solution (i.e. it drops the temperature to quickly) all you have to do is reverse your mini thrusters and put it away.
3) You can start with one. Measure its effect and based on that put multiple shades up to address multiple areas... once again very inexpensively.
4) Any country could participate by buying their own shade and having a third party provider put it up.
5) A more expensive solution would be to send a polarized sheet up or one that just canceled UV rays.
Having said all of that, this is only meant to be a short term solution to mitigate the more deleterious effects of the current rapid global rise in temperature. We still need to reduce the carbon dioxide in the air. I believe the world is finally coming on board with that. Sun Shades can provide relieve with in the next few years.
Respectfully Submitted,
A. A. Roberts
What the hell am I talking about?
First of all you produce a great big plastic sheet, say two hundred miles in diameter. You know… the kind that Cristo used to wrap those Islands with.
Then you mold some reinforcements into it, maybe wire or some carbon composit.
You mold tubes into it that radiate out from the center
You build a central processing unit that has all communications, guidance, solor power, gas cylindar and thrusters in it.
Then you roll it up and put it in the shuttle or a rocket.
Then you shoot it into a geosynchronous orbit over the highest value targets like either pole, the glaciers that are racing into the ocean, spots in the Atlantic and Pacific where hurricanes and typhoons spawn and so on and so forth.
Once in orbit you deploy the really big Sun Shade over the target by filling the tubes with the gas from teh central cylindar and voila you have the first man made global warming mitigation device ever placed in space.
Now we need to digress to an example of how to get the biggest bang for the buck. Remember when you were a kid and you made shadow puppets on the movie screen? When you put your hands real close to the screen you covered a smaller area then when you put them closer to the projector. The moral of this story is the closer our plastic Sun Shade is to the sun the more area we're going to cover and thus the greater bang for the buck.
Advantages of this solution are:
1) It is relatively inexpensive and low tech.
2) This solution is easily reversible. If the Sun Shade idea turns out to be too drastic a solution (i.e. it drops the temperature to quickly) all you have to do is reverse your mini thrusters and put it away.
3) You can start with one. Measure its effect and based on that put multiple shades up to address multiple areas... once again very inexpensively.
4) Any country could participate by buying their own shade and having a third party provider put it up.
5) A more expensive solution would be to send a polarized sheet up or one that just canceled UV rays.
Having said all of that, this is only meant to be a short term solution to mitigate the more deleterious effects of the current rapid global rise in temperature. We still need to reduce the carbon dioxide in the air. I believe the world is finally coming on board with that. Sun Shades can provide relieve with in the next few years.
Respectfully Submitted,
A. A. Roberts
posted by . | 4:46 AM
1 Comments:
I’ve been thinking about the solar shades on a more detailed technical level. Here are some design elements I’ve thought about:
1) The shape would be hexagonal. This would facilitate putting multiple shades together to facilitate coverage of a wider area.
2) I’m guessing the best material would be some kind of plastic with a reflective/white surface on the side facing the sun.
3) As stated before the entire solar shade package would be launched into a geosynchronous orbit over a high vale target between the sun and the earth. High value would be any area that would benefit from immediate cooling (i.e., either pole, Greenland’s glaciers, hurricane alley, etc.)
4) The core unit at the center of the shade would be comprised of:
a. A gas cylinder to inflate built in ribs. This would be part of the system to deploy the solar shade and to maintain orbit.
b. 6 mini, compressed gas, self guided rockets tethered to each corner of the hexagon. These will be fired to aid in the solar shade deployment.
c. A gyroscope to maintain stability and to aid in deployment.
d. Communications/monitoring gear to maintain stability and to aid in deployment.
That’s about it. The engineering challenges are to make these shades as big as possible, but still get them packed so they can be launched on a single rocket.
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