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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."
The web is your friend - www.saltrain.com. Not much about plants...
I think you are more referencing the laws of Entropy/Thermodynamics rather than the laws of Motion (usually attributed to Newton as "Newton's laws").
Written in a simple, easy to understand fashion, the laws of entropy/energy are:
1) You can't win.
2) You can't break even.
3) The game is rigged where everybody will go broke in the end.
But then again too many environmentalists are unaware of basic principles of science, so perhaps they think you can reverse entropy on a global scale.
the worst part of this : the government (actually, the republicans) wouldn't want social security (the bailout = social security equivalent for companies)
Yes, I'm left. You have a problem with that?