On Jun 6, 8:35 am, Hank Roberts <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ray Pierrehumbert thought this notion sounded interesting, a while
> back at RC; at the time all I'd seen and all he'd seen was an IEEE
> abstract. I mentioned it at RC quite a while ago, and haven't seen
> anything more about it.
>
> The IEEE article seemed to be thinking about big infrared lasers (yes,
> I think they'd have to be bicycle/hydro/solar/wind powered to make a
> net improvement -- you don't want to generate any net excess heat to
> power such a device!)
>
> http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/freeabs_all.jsp?arnumber=1392156
Sounds utterly barking to me - why waste all that energy rather than
using it for something meaningful (like substituting fossil fuels, for
example).
Mind you I can't see the full paper which may provide some plausible
arguments..
James
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