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Scientist Patents New Method To Fight Global Warming
SUNSTOP writes to tell us that a relatively unknown Maryland scientist has proposed a public patent that he claims could combat global warming. The proposed plan would require massive amounts of water to be sprayed into the air in an effort to bolster the earth's existing air conditioning system. "First, the sprayed droplets would transform to water vapor, a change that absorbs thermal energy near ground level; then the rising vapor would condense into sunlight-reflecting clouds and cooling rain, releasing much of the stored energy into space in the form of infrared radiation. Kenneth Caldeira, a climate scientist for the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University whose computer simulation of Ace's invention suggests it would significantly cool the planet. The simulated evaporation of about one-half inch of additional water everywhere in the world produced immediate planetary cooling effects that were projected to reach nearly 1 degree Fahrenheit within 20 or 30 years, Caldeira said."
A Little Known Maryland Scientist Has Made Public
YES! We have a new winner for most descriptive Slashdot headline EVAR!
AntiFA: An abbreviation for Anti First Amendment.
"No sir, I do not believe you are 'doing your part to prevent global warming.' Now please stop spitting. No, I don't believe the other patrons need to be cooled."
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Obama has appointed him as Secretary of the Absurd.
Strange things are afoot at the Circle-K.
As I dig out from several feet of snow, I'm not entirely sure I want the earth cooler.
Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
A hitherto unknown scientist offers an easy solution to greenhouse gases that's actually going to wipe out humanity?
Where's the Doctor???
I know, it's just as silly as dropping a big ice cube into the ocean.
The OP is a brilliant literary artist.
I kept waiting for the second half of that sentence, but then *BAM* period. End of sentence. I was all like, "WOAH! This guy's messing with my brain by defying the convention of the written word!"
If you don't understand the OP, then you don't appreciate avant-garde literature.
Dewey, you fool! Your decimal system has played right into my hands!
Coal plants of course! Don't worry, it's green coal!
I thought coal was black.
I was there a few weeks ago. When the waters are in operation, the air gets noticeably cooler. This only works because Vegas has very dry air. He would get pretty much zero evaporative cooling in Washington DC during the summer.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
Right! We just rely on voluntary emissions reductions from the people of the world to counter global warming! Not an impractical crackpot scheme at all!
The World Wide Web is dying. Soon, we shall have only the Internet.
Someone has gone and done it. They have PATENTED vaporware! Now every company that promises to deliver software and never does will be sued by this clown!
Isn't water vapor one of the biggest greenhouse gasses?
Yes it is, but what do you expect? This guy is not a rocket scientist, he is a little known scientist.
Respect the Constitution
I wonder if this idea will ever
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
"A Little Known Maryland Scientist Has Made Public" .....And then he ACCIDENTALLY THE WHOLE THING
I made in public once.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
Yeah, I know him. His name is Steve, and he's 4'8"...
Please state the nature of the medical emergency.
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This project is simply another... Vaporware!
I think this gem earns a "whatcouldpossiblygoright".
Virginia is for lovers. EVE is for griefers.
... the energy expenditure of putting the water into the air?
Unless he has a carbon-neutral method of doing that, too...
Duh! Hydro power!
With all the water he's spraying, there is bound to be some run-off. Dam those newly formed streams and rivers up and use the hydro power to power the pumps that will pump the water.
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
Capture a 150ft (50m) asteroid and throw it into the middle of the Atlantic. That will rise A LOT of water into the atmosphere. Remember, you heard it first from me.
Seriously - how long does it take to write a dozen thoughtful words, then check it??
Find out in the upcoming /. article "Slashdot Editors Have Checked"
He's the ee cummings of /. I never really appreciated the oppressive limitations that the English language forces on us until SUNSTOP opened my mind to the possibility of a new way!
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
I, a little know scientist, have invented a method to reverse global warming. Computer simulations suggest that it can reduce global temperatures by 2 - 3 degrees C in only 10 years.
If everybody would just stand in south China, then the accumulated weight of all those people will change the Earth's axis to point up and down making sunlight never hit the poles making them real real cold.
And this is my idea, which is mine, and I call it "My Idea".
I have another idea. I call it "My Second Idea". And it's mine.
I disagree, I think he's thinking things false. Once he starts thinking things true, then he'll wish he'd kept the whole thing to himself.
Well.. maybe. Or Maybe not. But Definitely not sort of.
And as some comedian once pointed out: in the US, at least, if you did succeed in killing all the lawyers you couldn't even be convicted of a crime - there would be a lack of adequate representation in court.
Of course that's just my opinion...... you could be wrong!
some might call this vaporware
Thats because everyone here (obviously except you) knows about Kenneth Caldeira, which in one point during last year.
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When are you grammer nazis going to learn, english doenst have rules of grammer, they are more like suggestions than rules.
Same goes for spelling and punctuation, I suppose.
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Any sign of last year's expedition? They were supposed to build a bridge between the two peaks of Kilimanjaro.
what goes up must come down
I seem to remember from my industrial gas engineering days that CO2 is heavier than air (that's why we'd put powered vents near the bottom of enclosures that air breathers might go into). Can we please all just move on to the next 'the-sky-is-falling' media-hyped scenario like the scarcity of fresh water? It's probably a scarier situation but many of the invested AGW people haven't caught on yet. Or at least not enough of them to build a "consensus" and unilaterally decide that the "science is settled".