: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 16:25:51 -0800
Subject: [geo] Re: Relocate the moon to Earth Sun L1
From: bradg...@gmail.com
To: geoengineering@googlegroups.com
Using the centripetal force of a tethered mass (say 10 million
tonnes), as the tug that's located 2x L2 (122,700 km) further out, is
what’s
Subject: [geo] Re: Relocate the moon to Earth Sun L1
From: bradg...@gmail.com
To: geoengineering@googlegroups.com
Using the centripetal force of a tethered mass (say 10 million
tonnes), as the tug that's located 2x L2 (122,700 km) further out, is
what’s going to literally pull this off
As long as I’m crazy enough to be proposing the use of our moon in
order to geoengineer a way out of our GW/AGW mess, we might as well
consider directly utilizing the moon itself.
Our moon has been shrinking and/or deflating as it cools (roughly 100
nm/year) and further solidifies, so we might as
Using the centripetal force of a tethered mass (say 10 million
tonnes), as the tug that's located 2x L2 (122,700 km) further out, is
what’s going to literally pull this off. Don’t always trust my math,
because I’ve estimated an initial tug force of only 3.466e6 kg, though
obviously this tethered
Exactly, at roughly 50% the ocean tides we have now, and otherwise
happening exactly the same every 12 hours (noon and midnight) so that
there's never any human or other biodiversity confusion, should go a
long ways towards improving matters for our infrastructure
functionality, as well as
At 7.35e22 kg, our moon is definitely a heavy sucker that’s perhaps
only 0.1% hollow as is. However, besides our desperate need of
interactive shade for geoengineering our GW and AGW problems away,
Earth can always use minerals and precious metals or rear-earths, and
what could possibly be more
also, lower tides means less risk from raised sea level...
On Feb 5, 6:22 pm, BradGuth bradg...@gmail.com wrote:
It's not as hard as you might think, and we'd get up to 3.5% shade,
although that could easily be adjusted to suit, and there are a few
other benefits besides terrific job security
