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-the albedo effect is the reflection of sunlight that reaches the earth, back into space; this keeps the planet cool
-if the sea ice melts, this albedo effect diminishes, and we get cooked, this is not nice
-some peoples, like professors, think they can geo-engineer the planet a bit to enhance
the albedo effect (see link about creating more clouds that reflect sunlight)
-other peoples, mostly not professors, think that we should all paint our roofs white; but this paint is made from petroleum so why would we use that?
-my idea is much more festive, because we can drink our way out of the problem, a bit
1. some agave plants are pretty 'white', not green
2. they grow in dry regions even in deserts
3. their color is often lighter than the color of the soil
4. we plant these agaves on huge patches of desert, like a huge reflector
5. then we continuously harvest them and replant them; from the harvested batches we produce billions of kiloliters of alcohol, more specifically Tequila!!!
6. or we use the alcohol to make carbon neutral ethanol
7. as they grow, the plants store CO2 from the atmosphere, which is an added advantage
8. I can prove to you that tequila agave plants are whiter than the soil in which they grow - a small collection is shown in the picture
-maybe we can build a solar power plant at the Sahara's/Sahel's coast to desalinate water and drip irrigate our huge tequila plantation with it
In short, the drunker we become the better our planetary albedo management skills!!!
Artificial clouds to enhance albedo effect
http://news.bbc.co....grammes/6354759.stm Futuristic fleet of 'cloudseeders' [django, May 09 2007]
Collection of agaves
http://i3.photobuck...do.jpg?t=1178723554 They are relatively white [django, May 09 2007]
Tequila shortage
http://www.marysuea...May06/news05069.htm This idea would be good for that [normzone, May 10 2007]
TQM (Tequila management)
TQM reminded me [shinobi, May 10 2007]
related in a drunk out of sorts way
Christo_20and_20Jea..._20global_20warming [jhomrighaus, May 10 2007]
[link]
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Sorry I'm home so late, Honey, I was participating in the TAM system. <hic> |
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Mixing alcohol and saving the planet - these are definitely two of my favorite things. |
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Perhaps we can design some sort of combustion engine that runs on this product's natural waste product, vomit. |
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Is part of the problem with this the notion that agave plants are reflective? I'm not sure that's so, not as highly reflective as global ice is for sure. I'm no kind of scientist, but it just seems like the big thing for the ice has going for is actual reflectivity, not just color. |
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I am all for saving the planet through tequila usage though! |
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Drinking tequilla, and walking the planet
are two of *my* favorite things. |
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AND DON'T FORGET THE SALT AND
LIMES! |
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(Salt is white and reflective too!) |
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Patron, Herradura, y Porfidio, anejo por favor. |
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Healthy vegetation is intensely reflective in the infrared bands, and infrared is what we need to get rid of, so this is very good. (Although I don't know how agave looks in infrared.) |
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Drink enough tequila and you won't be able to do much of anything else including consume fossil fuels. [+] |
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Non-fermented-and-distilled agave juice isn't half bad either... but using the natural waste product of vomit as an energy source should definitely be looked into. |
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clever...reminded me of a similarly named idea of mine (linked) |
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The good thing about plants is that they reflect heat so that they don't get hot and use the other light energy in photosynthesis. |
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The only problem with drinking the result, it that I think the fermentation process produces CO2 as well as alcohol and I think that the metabolisation of alcohol also produces CO2. |
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What you need is to lock up the carbon by building something out of it like insulation or something, thus simultaneously reducing the amount of fuel we need to heat/cool buildings. |
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I once suggested the creation of fields of
white crops. In fact I adocated the
painting white of the entire state of
Nebraska, but I'd settle for the elimination
of Texas, which may happen anyway, given
a big enough hurricane..... just keep
heating up that Gulf of Mexico with those
4x4s |
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I once suggested painting Antartica white (when the icecap metls). I should dig that idea up. |
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What're the comparative albedos of vomit and pavement? |
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As long as you were sick on relatively dark surfaces, you'd be doing your bit for global warming. |
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//As long as you were sick on relatively dark surfaces// |
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Depends how much red wine or guinness you've had. |
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