My take on additional funding is that private money could be beneficial in 3 key ways, which the state may be slow or reluctant to fund.
1) A kitty for funding ad hoc costs, such as conference fees, open access charges , etc. This will allow the removal of minor but annoying road blocks. £50k-£500k 2) Extra bodies and more computer time for key labs, to enable them to publish faster £200k-2M (more fundable by state than 1&3) 3) Serious investment in outdoor experiments, and engineering development of deployment systems £500k-100M I have no experience of funding bodies, so I'd welcome comments on the above. A On Jun 6, 2013 9:34 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > A: > If there is any money available use it to form a geoengineering society > to which members belong and pay dues, receive a publication with peer > reviewed papers on geoengineering technology and experiments, and can > attend an annual meeting; which society is managed and run for all the > members and for the benefit of geoengineering. It should not undermine the > science/technology by putting limits on what opinions people can express > given they are within proper bounds. Members should be responsible for > generating their own proposals and getting grant funding. If money is given > to the group and then dispensed it is not likely to get truth in > advertising and a small group gets too much power. > > This can be done for a few million dollars annually. I speak from personal > experience having done exactly this years back in what is currently a group > that is part of IEEE. > > -gene > > ------------------------------ > *From: *"Oliver Tickell" <[email protected]> > *Cc: *"geoengineering" <[email protected]> > *Sent: *Wednesday, June 5, 2013 10:26:18 AM > *Subject: *Re: [geo] Money > > There has been sod all funding for studies of accelerated rock > weathering. Some work has been done, on farmland in Holland for example, > but to get this wiely accepted it's important to know how fast ground > olivine weathers in different grain sizes, on land, on coast, different > climates, effects on rivers draining olivined catchments, effects on > marine biota from washout of Fe (if any) / H4SiO4, usefulness as > fertiliser to restore Mg where lacking in soils, etc etc. > > All of which really should be done before any large scale deployment. > Oliver. > > On 05/06/2013 10:58, Andrew Lockley wrote: > > > > Where do people think extra money is needed to further the study of > > geoengineering? > > > > A > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > > Groups "geoengineering" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > > an email to [email protected]. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
