Saturday, February 17, 2018

Here's An Interesting Conjecture, That Just Occurred To Me, Concerning Adding Ice To The Poles

Let's, just for the moment, say that it is more than just possible for me to create vast forests of lighter than air, lift doughnut supported, stacks of carbon fiber, tethering tube socks. Each one then a combined support column that would have X amount of carrying capacity, at whatever is the practical sweet spot, of highest lighter than air altitude. Where X is, of course, how big you are willing to make each lift doughnut; keeping in mind that, as you rise in altitude, you must also increase in size to allow for the greater displacement that's required to float anything, in a new pressure relationship.

So far, what I've been proposing is that we simply lay linked sheets of both reflective material, as well as some ratio of solar collectors as well, across these forests of supports, to reflect sunlight, and provide power for other options. Well, another option just occurred to me.

Some of you have probably already connected the dots here on what might also be possible, but I'm going to pass this along anyway. And keep in mind, also, that this next bit might be stretching things beyond purest credulity, because it will certainly be asking a lot for lighter than air technology to do; which is why we will really need to be creative here in thinking through how we might make this work. But enough with the caveats.

What I was thinking about is essentially this: How do we set up something of a conveyor belt system, of sorts, that would haul figurative buckets of ocean water up, to, again, the highest height we could practically achieve; let the water freeze up at that higher level, and then let the weight of the, now ice blocks, help continuously with the effort to bring up more seawater, as the blocks go back to the surface to be more of the ice we really need there?

Even if we had to augment with powered lift doughnuts, providing continuous electric fan powered thrust to do so, as well as connected Dirigible Blimp, Airtrain units, to provide additional electrical power, as well as lift support, wouldn't it be worth the effort? And with whatever mix of elements, Couldn't we still say that it was being done with solar power (because it will be wind turbine power that will create the hydrogen that the Airtrain units will run on), a significant part of which, at least, would be collected on surrounding, lift column supported, collector mats?

Think about it. Think about what other really creative things we could do to turn the warming around if we could be, all of us, really focused on it, and empowered to make magic happen. Because if we do do this in the right, inclusive way, magic will happen. I can feel it in my bones, wild dreamer or not.






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