Many of the plans to engineer global cooling to reverse the effects of global warming involve partially shading the planet. This could have very bad unintended consequences because we need the light for plants.
The problem with global warming isn't that we get too much sunlight: the problem is that the greenhouse gases trap the infrared radiation that we need to shed. Here is a solution to that and another problem. The other problem is that during the day, solar panels lose efficiency because they get hot. If solar panels were mounted onto a heat sink that conducts heat away from the cells and stores that heat, it would help keep the solar cells cooler and they would operate more efficiently. When the sun sets, the cells could swing away from he heat sink exposing a very dark surface on the heat sink. That would enhance the radiation of infrared light from the heat sink so that the heat sink would cool. Even though some of the infrared light would still be blocked by greenhouse gasses, more heat would be shed because of the efficiency of black body radiation, and because the radiation can be focused straight up minimizing the thickness of atmosphere it has to penetrate to escape Earth.
Alternatively, large swaths of the earth's under-productive surfaces can be covered by heat sinks that have a reflective coating on one side and a black surface on the other. During the day it reflects light back into space and at night it flips around exposing its dark surface to space so it can radiate heat back towards space. This would also create jobs for people to build, install, and maintain the radiators.
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He just caused printers to use about 18 trees worth of paper.
Many of the plans to engineer global cooling to reverse the effects of global warming involve partially shading the planet. This could have very bad unintended consequences because we need the light for plants. The problem with global warming isn't that we get too much sunlight: the problem is that the greenhouse gases trap the infrared radiation that we need to shed. Here is a solution to that and another problem. The other problem is that during the day, solar panels lose efficiency because they get hot. If solar panels were mounted onto a heat sink that conducts heat away from the cells and stores that heat, it would help keep the solar cells cooler and they would operate more efficiently. When the sun sets, the cells could swing away from he heat sink exposing a very dark surface on the heat sink. That would enhance the radiation of infrared light from the heat sink so that the heat sink would cool. Even though some of the infrared light would still be blocked by greenhouse gasses, more heat would be shed because of the efficiency of black body radiation, and because the radiation can be focused straight up minimizing the thickness of atmosphere it has to penetrate to escape Earth. Alternatively, large swaths of the earth's under-productive surfaces can be covered by heat sinks that have a reflective coating on one side and a black surface on the other. During the day it reflects light back into space and at night it flips around exposing its dark surface to space so it can radiate heat back towards space. This would also create jobs for people to build, install, and maintain the radiators.
What Linux distribution has the default user as Root these days?
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