Geo-engineering

Aaron Franklin Kelp farming and ice dyking for habitat enhancement  and carbon-negative fuels and chemical production. BY AARON FRANKLIN A purpose-built craft like this Ground effect...

http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/2015/05/kelp-farming-and-ice-dyking.html

BY RENAUD DE RICHTER LINKS - This idea was proposed by Denis Bonnelle, 'Solar Chimney, water spraying Energy Tower, and linked renewable energy conversion devices: p...

http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/2015/04/save-the-arctic.html

BY WILLIAM S. CLARKE Buoyant, long-­lasting flakes can release nutrients slowly, avoiding nutrients waste and allowing balanced marine ecosystems to develop over a period of about one year. The...

http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/2014/08/seven-ocean-fertilization-strategies.html

BY ROELOF D SCHUILING AND POPPE L DE BOER BACKGROUND Almost all of the CO2 that has ever leaked out of the planet has been removed from the atmosphere and the ocean, and sustainably stored in ...

http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/2014/01/six-commercially-viable-ways-to-remove-co2-from-the-atmosphere-and-or-reduce-co2-emissions.html

Ocean tunnels are proposed by Patrick McNulty  as a way to combat global warming. Many of these tunnels, lined up across the Gulf Stream and the Kuroshio Current , could supply large quanti...

http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/2013/12/ocean-tunnels.html

Methane can be released from hydrates during an earthquake or by rising ocean temperatures, and this can contribute significantly to global warming. Stimulating microbes to consume the methane in...

http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/2013/12/methane-eating-microbes-need-trace-metal.html

Aaron Franklin BY AARON FRANKLIN The apparatus consists of a vertical cylindrical wind-rotor, the interior of which is used as an ideal drop size cloud making machine. The inside surface of...

http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/2013/05/electrostatic-nanocone-ion-gun-vortex-separated-ideal-drop-size-saltwater-cloud-cannons.html

Klaus Lackner, Columbia University Professor Klaus Lackner, director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy at the Earth Institute , at Columbia University, is working on technology to...

http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/2013/04/klaus-lackner-works-on-carbon-capture-technology.html

Aaron Franklin BY AARON FRANKLIN As a compliment to cloud brightening systems, these for use in calm blue sky conditions, or windy blue sky conditions, over Ocean, sea and glacial ice, and...

http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/2013/03/supersonic-and-high-velocity-subsonic-saltwater-and-freshwater-cloud-making-cannons.html

Aaron Franklin BY AARON FRANKLIN There's little point getting too distracted with talk on how to reduce human CO2 emissions until we have succeeded in reversing the Arctic sea-ice crash. ...

http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/2013/03/an-integrated-systems-plan-for-10-year-carbon-pumpdown-to-280ppm.html

William H. Calvin, PhD, Professor at University of Washington,  author of: Global Fever: How to Treat Climate Change BY WILLIAM H. CALVIN 1. PROSPECTS FOR AN EMERGENCY DRAWDOWN OF CO...

http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/2013/03/using-the-oceans-to-remove-co2-from-the-atmosphere.html

by Stephen Salter, University of Edinburgh, and Alan Gadian, University of Leeds. BACKGROUND In 1990 John Latham suggested that the Twomey effect could be used to slow or reverse global warm...

http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/2013/01/coded-modulation-of-computer-climate-models-for-the-prediction-of-precipitation-and-other-side-effects-of-marine-cloud-brightening.html

Climate change threatens to develops in four ways: Global warming Accelerated warming in the Arctic Runaway global warming Extinction Warming accelerates in the Arctic due to a number of feedbac...

http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/2012/12/how-to-avoid-mass-scale-death-destruction-and-extinction.html

THREAT TO GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY MAKES COMPREHENSIVE ACTION IMPERATIVE Climate change is strongly affecting the Arctic and the resulting changes to the polar vortex and jet stream are in turn contr...

http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/2012/11/a-comprehensive-plan-of-action-on-climate-change.html

http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/2012/05/arctic-red-alert.html

UPDATE:  The Stratospheric Particle Injection for Climate Engineering (SPICE) project has cancelled its outdoor ‘1km testbed’ experiment.  Nature News - 15 May 2012 - by Daniel Cressey ...

http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/2012/04/discussion-should-patent-law-apply-to.html

AN APPCCG EVENT: THE CASE FOR EMERGENCY GEO-ENGINEERING TO SAVE THE ARCTIC FROM COLLAPSE WHEN: TUESDAY, 13TH MARCH, 1:00 - 2:30 PM WHERE: COMMITTEE ROOM 8, HOUSE OF COMMONS, LONDON SW1A 0AA ...

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In January 2012, methane levels in the Arctic reached levels of 1870 ppb.  Particularly worrying is that, in the past, methane concentrations have fluctuated up and down in line with the se...

http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/2012/02/january-2012-shows-record-levels-of.html

HOW MUCH TIME IS THERE LEFT TO ACT, BEFORE METHANE HYDRATE RELEASES WILL LEAD TO HUMAN EXTINCTION?  by Malcolm Light, edited by Sam Carana   Figure 1 below looks at the temperature impact of...

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A research team at Stanford University, led by Dr. Julia Pongratz, finds that solar-radiation geoengineering in a high-CO2 climate generally causes crop yields to increase, largely because temper...

http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/2012/01/crop-yields-in-geoengineered-climate.html

What are the chances of abrupt releases of, say, 1 Gt of methane in the Arctic? What would be the impact of such a release? By Sam Carana, December 20, 2011, updated January 10, 2012 HOW M...

http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/2012/01/potential-for-methane-releases-in.html

Can we capture methane from the Arctic seabed? Stephen H. Salter, School of Engineering, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.  Prepared for the John Nissen Methane Workshop, Chiswick 15,16 Oc...

http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/2011/12/can-we-capture-methane-from-arctic.html

Professor Peter Wadhams (Professor of Ocean Physics, Cambridge University) and Arctic Methane Emergency Group Chairman, John Nissen, will discuss the need for geoengineering in the Arctic to pre...

http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/2011/12/arctic-methane-alert.html

Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, is considering creating extra ice in winter. A Mongolian engineering firm ECOS & EMI aims to drill bore holes into ice formed on the Tuul river in winter. T...

http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/2011/11/creating-extra-ice-in-winter-for-extra.html

TECHNOLOGIES TO REMOVE CARBON DIOXIDE FROM THE ATMOSPHERE The Virgin Earth Challenge  is a prize of $25m for whoever can demonstrate to the judges' satisfaction a commercially viable design...

http://geo-engineering.blogspot.com/2011/11/combining-policy-and-technology.html