more ingenious ways to save the earth...spraying a shit load of sea water into air

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Spray gigatons of seawater into the air, mainly in the Northern Hemisphere, and let Mother Nature do the rest, suggests inventor Ron Acer in a patent petition for ?a colossal refrigeration system with a 100,000-fold performance multiplier.?
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http://cleantechnica.com/2009/01/05/geo-engineer-planet-cooler-using-oceans/

like most geo-engineering ideas this one is also borderline retarded.

i just don't like how the hippie website promotes it as a viable idea.
 
it would be the cheapest way to transport water to drought-stricken regions, counteract desert expansions, increase natural irrigation for crops and boost the output of hydroelectric power plants.
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**** that's so dumb. Irrigating with SALT WATER?!
 
Mother Nature doesn't want salt water, Mother Nature wants Brawndo.
 
It's a stupid idea. Spraying cola would even have better results.
 
Well, it's got what plants crave.
 
well... Once the water sprayed into the air evaporates, the water back down shouldn't have any salt in it. It could be a good idea if it works. I suppose...

Try not to beat down on Ideas that sound weird too quickly.




Unless it involves burning you husband's penis for yourself...
 
Wait.

You want to put water -like in a toilet- on plants?
 
If H2O gets into Ozone it destroys it. Saw it on the Science channel not 4 hours ago.
 
Then you have sunburn versus death. Also I fail to see how adding a bit more water into the air is going to do so much more damage than regular evaporation would. It sounds like a solid last-resort plan to me.
 
We'll evolve to have gills like newts, that's the problem. Then we won't be able to breathe.
 
Lizardizzle said:
well... Once the water sprayed into the air evaporates, the water back down shouldn't have any salt in it. It could be a good idea if it works. I suppose...

Try not to beat down on Ideas that sound weird too quickly.
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So the salt just magically disappears?
When salt water evaporates what will be left behind? ...that's right! Salt! It has to go somewhere.

Try not to beat down on people beating down on Ideas that sound wierd before actually thinking.
 
Mr Stabby said:
Don't they use salt as a fertilizer in Zimbabwe?
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In carefully controlled dosages salt is used in fertilizers, plants need a bit of salt just like animals do. Too much salt, such as you'd get by using salt water to irrigate, will kill plants. Our major food crops in particular are quite intolerant of high salt concentrations.
 
Oh I've been waiting a long time for Waterworld.

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And you can see how well that's turning out for them.

edit: oh bother
 
Eejit said:
So the salt just magically disappears?
When salt water evaporates what will be left behind? ...that's right! Salt! It has to go somewhere.

Try not to beat down on people beating down on Ideas that sound wierd before actually thinking.
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What?

The salt will stay at the same place, it won't get evaporated.
 
Yes, good work spotting scarcasm.

izzle seemed to be saying (he's really unclear and makes no sense there) that if you spray water into the air where it evaporates the water coming down will contain no salt. As if that solves the problem and there won't be any extra salt lying around. If he meant that the water will evaporate where it lands then all the salt will end up where the water does.

He suggests installing devices that spray seawater up to 200 feet into the air next to deserts and other arid or windy sites near seawater, such as the African, South American and Mediterranean coasts.

In addition, it would be the cheapest way to transport water to drought-stricken regions, counteract desert expansions, increase natural irrigation for crops and boost the output of hydroelectric power plants.
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It's a retarded idea unless you purify these millions of tons of water before spraying it into the air. Which wouldn't be economically feasible.
Yeah it might reduce warming, but it'll make marginal land even worse and actually make it more difficult to reduce desert expansion etc. The idea of using it for irrigation is so dumb my brain hurts thinking about it.
 
I don't get it, if this were to get rid of deserts/a desert wouldn't that really **** everything up within like 200 miles of the place?
 
It'd be more likely to turn deserts into salt flats than to get rid of deserts :P
 
That's Enola from Waterworld, grown up. The little girl with the map on her back.

Her real name is Tina Majorino.
 
As Caldeira put it: “Every brilliant innovation in the history of technology looked a little bit loony when first proposed.” Ron Acer holds 70 patents worldwide but has had commercial success on fewer than 20 of them.
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Odds are against him.
 
Clouds and the water cycle have both negative and positive feedback effects on global warming actually. Creating large bodies of surface water or vegetation in currently arid areas could indeed help with global warming as the standing water will absorb heat and also reflect light well, and plants would absorb CO2, but using Salt water is FAR from ideal.
 
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