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by dr_dshiv
1604 days ago
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I highly recommend reading about this first before reacting. 1. It isn't about using the ocean water to make clouds. It is specifically about using the salt as a cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) 2. The concerns about CO2 and noise are well-founded concerns. They aren't intractable, though. For instance, if this really worked, maybe solar powered zeppelins would be the way to go (oh, please let it be so) 3. Unless scientists conduct research like this, we won't be able to answer the rest of your questions. They are empirical in nature. |
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@2 yeah I'm all for zeppelins (and trains). It's not immediately obvious to me how to make use of zeppelins (or trains) for this project but maybe they could be used to collect solar power (but do they have enough buoyancy for large solar panels?)
@3 I'm not against sending experimental vessels to the sea and spray water all over the place in order to find out what happens. I'm all for doing some boundary sanity checks beforehand and during such undertakings to see whether basic physics checks out, and this is what motivated my post. I live in Germany, a country with roughly the size of the Great Barrier Reef, and I'm not sure I have a good handle at the size of this country—it is too big. I'd be happy to hear from someone else an estimate for the size, number and horsepower of vessels required to pull this off. If it's a thousand cargo ships, that sounds like an upper bound for being reasonable. If it's a thousand aircraft carriers, then forget about it. If its hundreds of thousands of mid-sized vessels, good luck with acquiring or building, outfitting, maintaining, manning, catering, harboring, and fueling them. Maybe modified oil drilling platforms are better suited for a task like this.