Re: What would you do to save the environment?

In article <1190915787.725184.151680@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
<Hardcowded@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Let's say you're put at the head of a project whose aim is
to halt and reverse as far as possible the environmental
destruction caused by the human race. What we're talking
about is not just a moonshot, but a multinational
megaproject with a twelve figure budget (that is, trillions
of dollars). Leaving aside for a moment the feasibility of
such a project ever being launched, how would you go about
it technically? Thanks alot!

1) Build nuclear power plants. Lots of 'em. Standardize on
a design, and the standard design is pre-approved, from
construction to operation.

2) Waste reprocessing to remove the plutonium and put it
into new fuel rods.

3) Breeder reactors.

4) Phase out burning coal as quickly as 1-3 allows.

5) Lots of research into electrical storage -- new battery
technology, super-duper-ultra capacitors, etc.

6) Build electric cars. 1-3 to provide the electricty to
charge that number of cars, 5 so cars that actually
meet most people's needs can be built.

7) Space Solar Power satellites.

8) Work on putting some sort of insolation fine-tuning
infrastructure in the Earth-Sun L1 point. Yeah, this
requires station-keeping, since L1 isn't stable. We are
probably going to want to be able to fine-tune the Earth's
temperature. Be sure provision is made to both decrease
and increase sunlight reaching the Earth; we don't want
an ice age after we quit burning fossil fuels.

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