Cloud-making ships
Puffy, white, low-flying clouds reflect a lot of sunlight, leading a few scientists to suggest making more of them. The best way to do that, according to some, would be to spray seawater high into the sky using specialized ships designed to patrol the oceans. John Latham, a proponent of the idea, thinks it will take a fleet of about 1,500 such ships to do the job correctly.
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Imagine the raw materials and fossil fuels commitment to a "solution" like this.
Whatever happened to "educate and encourage people to make appropriate changes in their carbon effluent-intensive lifestyles" in order to enhance the biosphere's potential capacity for hosting their children and grandchildren.
It impresses me that anything in the sea like oil spills and other problems could cause us big problems if this idea were implemented. If not , please explain.
If this is a safe concept (no adverse impact from salty rain), this could be a solution to produce more clouds, recover advancing deserts and dust storms as well as provide much needed water for people and not consume oil as fuel for the 1500+ ships. \Insetad, build these devicevices in the appropriate areas on land with feeder lines from the oceans and desalination plants. One plan could use the disbursement process shown to distribute water into the air to simulate rainfall to reverse the.... More
What impact would this have to the rain falling from these saltwater clouds? And the rust, the rust! It's bad enough on cars along the California coast now. After moving to the mid-west from Southern California, I was surprised at the huge number of new (relatively rustless) cars driving around and then realized they weren't affected by salt air. And, what about the rivers, lakes and reservoirs?
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