Problem 1: Reducing disinformation and potential sabotage about active solar geoengineering projects
Importance: Given the controversy abut chemtrails, disinformation is very likely to occur regarding GE projects. Disinformation can lead to sabotage of GE projects that are widely distributed (e.g. MCB automated ships). Possible solution: Monitor disinformation spread on social media and reduce the spread by strategic targeting of key network nodes (AKA "players") using fact checking. Apply what we have learned about anti-vaccine efforts in developed and developing countries. Long-flight drone technology will be needed to monitor GE projects given their vulnerability to sabotage and vandalism. Problem 2: Small particles of plastic in seawater clog MCB technology. Importance: In the conventional MCB scheme, fleets of automated ships are to use seawater to modify the albedo of marine clouds. But the likely cruising grounds for these fleets in the Pacific and Atlantic probably overlaps with so-called marine plastic gyres. Possible solution: Some kind of adaptive smart filtering technology that uses and provides feedback on what kind of plastic is in the water. From my layman's perspective, that if these ships are to be truly automated it will require advancements in AI as well as nanotech... On 5 Aug 2014, at 11:26 , Ken Caldeira <[email protected]> wrote: > Folks, > > I am supposed to give a keynote talk at CEC14 in two weeks. For this talk, I > would like to try to develop a list of research problems in solar > geoengineering and a list of suspect memes. For this email thread, I would > like to ask > > 1a. What is an important tractable research problems in solar geoengineering? > > 1b. Why is this problem important? > > 1c. What can be done to address this problem? > > Thoughtful responses would be most appreciated. If you want to start > discussion about a research topic, please do so in a separate thread so that > this thread can be easily used to develop a list. > > Thanks, > > Ken > > _______________ > Ken Caldeira > > Carnegie Institution for Science > Dept of Global Ecology > 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA > +1 650 704 7212 [email protected] > http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab > https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira > > Assistant: Dawn Ross <[email protected]> > > > -- > 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. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
