On 10 May, 22:39, Hank Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Apr 27, 5:19 am, James Annan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I'll have to get working on the floating rafts of coconut trees, with
> > genetically engineered heavy coconuts which sink to the ocean floor...
>
> > James
>
> Too late, I'm beating you out with my orbiting giant potato vines; the
> center of mass is at geostationary, the leaves and roots trail in the
> atmosphere, to soak up CO2 and that far greater greenhouse gas, water
> vapor ---- and the potatos are growing on roots extending radially
> outward beyond the center of mass.
>
> Still working on the timing so when the tubers are released they go
> into transit to Mars, to contribute carbohydrates to the terraforming
> project.
Like I said, geoengineering in itself is an 'issue'; fair enough. But
nobody has said anything about the 'seaspray' project yet. Maybe
nobody is up to date on it or isn't really interested; fair enough.
But I still want to know whether such a project is, scientifically,
sound. I still want to know what might be wrong with the idea (taking
aside the overarching issue for the moment). I still want to know why
the team hasn't even got funding to produce a working full-size
prototype and test its effects.
If we are in a situation (as implied by Jim Hansen) where irreversible
changes may kick in as a consequence of what we do over the next ten
years, would not a successful project such as this at least buy us
some time, at a relatively low cost?
And mentioning Hansen, hats off to James (& Jules), because he's too
modest to say anything about it himself, for the citation in Hansen's
latest ACP paper, 'Dangerous anthropogenic interference with climate -
a GISS model E study', which uses their 2006 paper in justification
for the parameters used in the model run set-up (I think that's right).
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