Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Solar and wind power in the sky

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Solar panels and wind turbines only work when there is sufficient sunshine or wind. There are ways to overcome this disadvantage, such as st...
Monday, July 2, 2007

Wow Energies a contender for Branson $US25 million award

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As discussed, Richard Branson encourages companies to come up with solutions by offering a $US25 million award to anyone who can take existi...
Monday, June 4, 2007

Polar ejection of carbon dioxide

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Dr. Alfred Wong of the University of California, Los Angeles, proposes to send carbon dioxide into outer space using lasers and radio waves ...
Tuesday, May 15, 2007

Electricity for Europe

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Here are three ideas to supply Europe with electricity: 1. Geothermal power from Iceland In April 2007, the Icelandic National Energy Author...
Monday, May 14, 2007

Sun shields from Moon Dust

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Curtis Struck of Iowa State University suggests that lunar dust particles are just the right size to scatter sunlight. They could be positio...
Monday, May 7, 2007

Planktos - seeding the oceans with iron

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Planktos plans to fertilize the oceans with iron to stimulate growth of phytoplankton, microscopic marine plants that soak up carbon dioxide...
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Cloud Seeding

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Cloud seeding is proposed by John Latham and Stephen Salter, who suggest to spray droplets of seawater high up into the air, so that the tin...

Sulphur into the stratosphere

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Some are considering releasing dust particles in the air to reflect some of the sunlight, as an alternative to positioning mirrors in orbit ...

Artificial Trees

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Klaus Lackner, physicist at Columbia University, has proposed artificial trees to suck carbon out of the air. The trees suck in carbon dioxi...
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Mirrors in Space

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The concept Mirrors in Space was discussed in an article from the summer 2001 Whole Earth Review, Mirrors & Smoke: Ameliorating Climate ...