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fake bergs
Convert the Gyre Cell phone cure for global warming | |
Its a long shot but let's think laterally about the problem of polar bears. They need places to float, we need white stuff to reflect sunlight. For the first I suggest a factory ship to process the flotsam in the north Pacific Gyre into something that floats, transporting it north to where the bears
can use it. And for the second all cell phone network towers could be replaced by white blimps to reflect the sunlight.
Great Pacific Garbage Patch
http://en.wikipedia...cific_Garbage_Patch
[calum, Apr 01 2009]
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huh? Are the polar bears supposed to reflect sunlight, or is this two ideas (raise albedo by white blimps, make flotsam into ... bigger flotsam for bears)? |
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Explain to me why polar bears need mobile phones? |
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The first part, putting fake ice floes in the arctic waters, is nowhere near a new idea, I'm afraid. I can't remember if it's been posted here before, but I've seen a news article about people who are actually trying to do this. So, I cannot bun the first part. Also, the idea of replacing all cellphone towers with blimps... no. That would make it nigh impossible to have predictable, reliable coverage. (neutral) because that might make a good gimmick for a new cellphone company, or for existing companies to put blimps in their roaming areas. |
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agreed with [21] and want to add- do you think planes can fly between all those white blimps?
(try out a couple of commas for fun!) |
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Sorry about starting a new thread it was an accident as I was trying to add to the Fake Ice Berg using polystyrene thread.
So who are actually trying to make fake bergs? That's interesting. If blimps are a problem for planes maybe we should raise albedo by painting them and the tops of all buildings white instead. |
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