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."

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Ship info..

[B5_geek]

wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flettner_ship/

Jacques Cousteaus' ship the Calypso was the first ship of this style that I had known about.

Re:That's what?

[budgenator]

if I had mod points this would be modded redundant, X compared to the cost of the war in Iraq has been done to death, first post are almost invariable off-topic and redundant frosty piss has also been done to death.