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aufbahrung wrote:I ran a thought experiment where a jet engine rig similar to ones for putting out oil field geysers was placed at the opposite ends of the planets gravitational axis/poles and did some back of envelope calculations, it'd only take a couple of dozen firing off in opposite directions and poles for seven or eight years to tilt the planets angle by a full degree. Could this be a overlooked method for geo-engineering and cooling the planet...or even warming it up when necessary. Haven't read it anywhere so I'm throwing it out there has a potential silver bullet answer for global warming geeks here to run with.
aufbahrung wrote:You could use modern satellite positioning to get the jets precise linear blasts in harmony at either pole, the construction of the rig is a engineering issue that is feasible.
I did have a great book on helicopter mechanics, full of graphs and algebra, the whole mechanics angle you mention.
aufbahrung wrote:jets precise linear blasts in harmony at either pole
aufbahrung wrote:Things wouldn't be on a stationary rig. A gimble plate construction that reacts in a complicated realistic manner according to ever varying data streams. I'll shut up now, let you experts laugh, criticise then accept a new idea. If I had all the graphs in the world it would not alter the human behaviour for processing a novel idea. It's all yours now.
aufbahrung wrote:I ran a thought experiment where a jet engine rig similar to ones for putting out oil field geysers was placed at the opposite ends of the planets gravitational axis/poles and did some back of envelope calculations, it'd only take a couple of dozen firing off in opposite directions and poles for seven or eight years to tilt the planets angle by a full degree. Could this be a overlooked method for geo-engineering and cooling the planet...or even warming it up when necessary. Haven't read it anywhere so I'm throwing it out there has a potential silver bullet answer for global warming geeks here to run with.
aufbahrung wrote:I ran a thought experiment where a jet engine rig similar to ones for putting out oil field geysers was placed at the opposite ends of the planets gravitational axis/poles and did some back of envelope calculations, it'd only take a couple of dozen firing off in opposite directions and poles for seven or eight years to tilt the planets angle by a full degree. Could this be a overlooked method for geo-engineering and cooling the planet...or even warming it up when necessary. Haven't read it anywhere so I'm throwing it out there has a potential silver bullet answer for global warming geeks here to run with.
aufbahrung wrote:I ran a thought experiment where a jet engine rig similar to ones for putting out oil field geysers was placed at the opposite ends of the planets gravitational axis/poles and did some back of envelope calculations, it'd only take a couple of dozen firing off in opposite directions and poles for seven or eight years to tilt the planets angle by a full degree. Could this be a overlooked method for geo-engineering and cooling the planet...or even warming it up when necessary. Haven't read it anywhere so I'm throwing it out there has a potential silver bullet answer for global warming geeks here to run with.
Scarlett and Ironclad wrote:Campermon,...a middle aged, middle class, Guardian reading, dad of four, knackered hippy, woolly jumper wearing wino and science teacher.
campermon wrote:
Far too over engineered.
Just need to erect some huge sails around the equator. As the earth spins, the sails will catch the wind and slow the rotation down thus resulting in longer nights which will let the earth cool off for longer each day.
laklak wrote:campermon wrote:
Far too over engineered.
Just need to erect some huge sails around the equator. As the earth spins, the sails will catch the wind and slow the rotation down thus resulting in longer nights which will let the earth cool off for longer each day.
You could turn the sails around and make each day shorter so it doesn't warm up as much.
Scarlett and Ironclad wrote:Campermon,...a middle aged, middle class, Guardian reading, dad of four, knackered hippy, woolly jumper wearing wino and science teacher.
Scarlett and Ironclad wrote:Campermon,...a middle aged, middle class, Guardian reading, dad of four, knackered hippy, woolly jumper wearing wino and science teacher.
Thommo wrote:Jet engines move air. Air is part of the Earth. What you're proposing is changing the Earth's movement by pushing against itself, or a variation on the old saw about every Chinese person jumping at once.
Never mind the absence of showing your working (and, in fact, the answer that working supposedly arrives at) the premise itself is nonsense, there's no net change in the angular momentum from the operation of a jet engine at all, you'd need to expel air from the Earth's atmosphere altogether to have an effect.
Scarlett and Ironclad wrote:Campermon,...a middle aged, middle class, Guardian reading, dad of four, knackered hippy, woolly jumper wearing wino and science teacher.
Thommo wrote: or a variation on the old saw about every Chinese person jumping at once.
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