Outside the box Climate Change solutions

[Caddyshack]

I do not think Politicians or World Leaders are the only people to solve the climate issue, maybe we can think outside the box. I am interested to know why some of the more "off the wall" ideas might not work...maybe some serious and some more light hearted solutions:

1) We already heat properties by water source heat pumps, why not try to heat all our homes by a huge amount of trying to cool the ocean, we need to drop the temp and re-freeze sea water. You could take this much further and have a huge vent pipe out in to space so the heat generated is out of the atmosphere but the cooling is on earth...giant air con. It could be solar powered and cover a lot of say Africa in panels plus the actual vent pipe could be solar and wind farm generating. With the earth spinning so fast it could, in theory, have a benouli (sp) effect and draw sea water up to lower the sea level (we do only have a finite amount of water on earth so maybe not?)

2) We need to lower sea levels...what is every single person on earth had to go in to the sea and remove 10 rocks and place them up high on land so they could not return to the sea...the sea level would drop.

I am happy to accept a knighthood and a huge amount of cash for solving the world issue.

[BoRED S2upid]

Genius. Get yourself to Glasgow immediately.

Surely we need to use the countries that are hot to heat the countries that are st, wet and cold (like ours) get a bit of their sun over here and some of our st weather over there. Oh and plant a few billion trees every school child grows a tree and plants it out every year as a lesson - free trees and they learn something useful.

[Biggy Stardust]

Caddyshack said:

You could take this much further and have a huge vent pipe out in to space so the heat generated is out of the atmosphere but the cooling is on earth...giant air con.

You've heard of vacuum flasks which don't conduct much heat?

AIUI outside the atmosphere is a bit of a vacuum. Heat might not conduct all that well.

The knighthood might have to wait.

[Electro1980]

Caddyshack said:

I do not think Politicians or World Leaders are the only people to solve the climate issue, maybe we can think outside the box. I am interested to know why some of the more "off the wall" ideas might not work...maybe some serious and some more light hearted solutions:

1) We already heat properties by water source heat pumps, why not try to heat all our homes by a huge amount of trying to cool the ocean, we need to drop the temp and re-freeze sea water. You could take this much further and have a huge vent pipe out in to space so the heat generated is out of the atmosphere but the cooling is on earth...giant air con. It could be solar powered and cover a lot of say Africa in panels plus the actual vent pipe could be solar and wind farm generating. With the earth spinning so fast it could, in theory, have a benouli (sp) effect and draw sea water up to lower the sea level (we do only have a finite amount of water on earth so maybe not?)

2) We need to lower sea levels...what is every single person on earth had to go in to the sea and remove 10 rocks and place them up high on land so they could not return to the sea...the sea level would drop.

I am happy to accept a knighthood and a huge amount of cash for solving the world issue.

I doubt you will get a knighthood, but you could try running for political office in the US:

https://www.iflscience.com/environment/politician-...

[DE1975]

Massively reduce the population. You could release a bio-engineered virus and if that doesn't take out enough people, coerce people to take an untested vaccine which might have some side effects.

[Jasandjules]

The first thing we need to do is educate the world that the climate has changed and always will, based upon in no small part, solar activity.

Then we can educate people that we are not King Canute and we can not stop the sun affecting the climate.

Then we need to educate people to do good things like stop deforestation, shark fishing and mining for minerals to pay for electric.. No harm in investing in healthy and safe renewables if we can find some.... Perhaps some tidal stuff etc..

[Donbot]

Pour some water on the sun to cool it down a bit.

[Murph7355]

Biggy Stardust said:

Caddyshack said:

You could take this much further and have a huge vent pipe out in to space so the heat generated is out of the atmosphere but the cooling is on earth...giant air con.

You've heard of vacuum flasks which don't conduct much heat?

AIUI outside the atmosphere is a bit of a vacuum. Heat might not conduct all that well.

The knighthood might have to wait.

And yet the sun's warmth gets to us from millions of miles away. It's all very confusing.

DE1975 said:

Massively reduce the population. You could release a bio-engineered virus and if that doesn't take out enough people, coerce people to take an untested vaccine which might have some side effects.

The trouble with that is that James Bond would foil it and then not die. Though this in itself would create a serious amount of hot air that could heat us all if harnessed, or raise global temps by 3degC if not.

[GroundEffect]

Jasandjules said:

The first thing we need to do is educate the world that the climate has changed and always will, based upon in no small part, solar activity.

Then we can educate people that we are not King Canute and we can not stop the sun affecting the climate.

https://climate.nasa.gov/internal_resources/2165/

[Scrump]

Thread discussing the scientific aspects of climate change is here:
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...