Andrew, to answer all the questions you have posed you would need to start your own Wikipedia. However, what you have done is a significant improvement over what was there before. In case you never saw the old version, here it is from the Internet Archive in 2006:
http://web.archive.org/web/20061121034045/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoengineering Although the Google cache is showing this version from December 4: http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:AshygLc7SRgJ:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_engineering+geoengineering&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us If you want more information on the status of these technologies, check out the archives (old messages) and files of the Google Geoengineering Group. Makes for some interesting reading. I'll provide some information as I get time. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Lockley" <[email protected]> To: "John Nissen" <[email protected]> Cc: "geoengineering" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 9:40 PM Subject: [geo] Re: new wikipedia page > > One of the aspects I'm struggling with in the article is to make > meaningful comparisons of the costs, risks, feasibility and timescales > on the ideas. If anyone can help me with that, it would be very > useful. Just send me the info and I will collate it. > > I am particularly interested by a few things I've discovered whilst > doing the research > > Albedo modifications on roof and pavement materials is very cheap and > seems to work quite well, although it can only do so much > Sulphur in the stratosphere seems to be very dangerous for ozone and > of all the techniques on offer it seems to me to be the riskiest > no-one seems to have done any research on all the salt that might end > up blowing around from the spray ships. > adding limestone to seawater, or removing hydrochloric acid from the > sea, seems to be a promising technique, but i;ve not heard much about > it (especially the latter) > > does anyone know of any techniques i've missed off the lists? I'm > particularly keen to add more stuff in the 'other' category. > > I've not finished 'criticisms' or 'implementation issues', so if > someone could help me with that I'd appreciate it. I've got some > ideas, but if someone gets there first that would save me the bother. > > There are a few articles that people have refered to that haven't been > created on wikipedia yet. Mainly they are about people. I don't know > these people, so can someone that does please do a page for them. I'm > not very interested in people so I won't be doing this myself. (no > offence to any of those people that are on this list - some folks are > 'people people' and I'm not. it's nothing personal) > > Further, if anyone knows how to add images from wikicommons to > wikipedia, could they please explain it to me. Do you create a link > or download and then re-upload the file? > > A > > 2008/12/14 John Nissen <[email protected]>: >> Thanks Andrew for the new entry: >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoengineering >> The more people refer to this URL, the higher ranking in Google. >> >> It's fascinating about "pykrete", refs [17][18] - a composite word from >> Pyke >> the inventor and concrete. Pykrete is mostly ice, but has properties >> remarkably like concrete. >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete >> >> If we could somehow mix ice with sawdust or similar fibrous material, to >> prevent the ice melting so fast in summer... Another geoengineering >> technique for the inventing - to help save the Arctic sea ice! >> >> Cheers from Chiswick, >> >> John >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Lockley" >> <[email protected]> >> To: "geoengineering" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 5:15 PM >> Subject: [geo] new wikipedia page >> >> >>> >>> there's now a proper geoengineering page on wikipedia. i've deleted >>> the old section in planetary engineering, but wikipedia can't tell >>> that i've done the split so it treats it as vandalism. very annoying! >>> >>> if anyone would like to add new stuff and references, it's very easy >>> >>> to add references, just paste them into the text at the relevant point >>> and add <ref> before and </ref> after >>> >>> >> >>> >> >> > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
