Category Archives: Geo-engineering

Lunar city to save us from climate change?

Posted on 21 February, 2020 by Eclipse Now

What about solving climate change by building an industrial city on the moon? A good lunar city could use solar power to launch PowerSats via maglev railgun into orbit around the Earth to power the world from abundant RELIABLE solar … Continue reading →

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Soil carbon

Posted on 12 April, 2018 by Eclipse Now
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Water box grows trees in desert

Posted on 1 June, 2016 by Eclipse Now

This water-box extracts dew from the night time air and siphons it down underground where it will slowly release it to plants. They’ve used it in Dubai to help saplings grow where there is 50C days, sand storms, and camels! … Continue reading →

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Naomi Klein makes me angry, again!

Posted on 17 November, 2015 by Eclipse Now

First of all, she’s anti-nuclear. Enough said. But today is about the oceans. Geo-engineering, or sequestering CO2 by tipping iron dust into the ocean, is bad as well, according to Klein. She doesn’t spell out why it is bad: the … Continue reading →

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Geoengineering too expensive at $200 billion

Posted on 2 December, 2012 by Eclipse Now

I was over on this Next Big Future thread where Geoengineering came up. That’s the idea that, since we’re failing to reduce Co2 emissions by moving to clean coal, we may as well try and count the cost of other … Continue reading →

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