1,500-Ship Fleet Proposed To Fight Climate Change

Roland Piquepaille writes "According to UK and US researchers, it should be possible to fight the global warming effects associated with an increase of dioxide levels by using autonomous cloud-seeding ships to spray salt water into the air. This project would require the deployment of a worldwide fleet of 1,500 unmanned ships to cool the Earth even if the level of carbon dioxide doubled. These 300-tonne ships 'would be powered by the wind, but would not use conventional sails. Instead they would be fitted with a number of 20 m-high, 2.5 m-diameter cylinders known as Flettner rotors. The researchers estimate that such ships would cost between £1m and £2m each. This translates to a US$2.65 to 5.3 billion total cost for the ships only."

Comments

Re:A Bad Doctor

[bartyboy]

If we took this money and invested it into researching and implementing green alternatives to our current fossil-fuel infrastructure instead, more progress would be made in the long run.

Yeah, how about China and India do their part, too? Why is the onus on the West to cut back on greenhouse emissions while the Far East countries accelerate their output?

Re:That's what?

[OeLeWaPpErKe]

The real issue environuts will have with these ships is that they're not "natural". After all what nature does is "right".

(does that include a puma killing your daughter, aliquis, just to see how she squirms, or to teach her cubs to kill ? There is hardly any more natural an act)

Artificially influencing the weater will be very unnatural and thus the gods of gaia and the goracle will not be appeased.

Besides, the goracle currently has gotten (partial) control over the energy infrastructure of the world. You don't seriously think he will give that up without a fight ?

Re:That's what?

[sg_oneill]

The massive pumps to keep the rising ocean at bay will need shit loads of power. And for that we need COAL!

Billions will die without it!