Crazy Global Warming Solution Ideas

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Mine was to work tax policy to incentivize companies to make all their packaging shiny and white, incentivize people to litter, and disincentivize everybody from recycling.

My friend's was to use a giant rocket to push the earth farther away from the sun

Mine was to work tax policy to incentivize companies to make all their packaging shiny and white, incentivize people to litter, and disincentivize everybody from recycling.

My friend's was to use a giant rocket to push the earth farther away from the sun

Construct lots of gigantic heatsinks, attached to the earth but stretching up above the atmosphere.

Wouldn't the heatsinks need to have very high temperature conductivity? Do we have suitable materials today? Are we talking about mountain-masses of superconductors?

Allow me to draw your attention to the first word in the title of the thing we're commenting on.

Yes, I think they would need to conduct well. I don't think they'd need to be superconductors. I have made no attempt to do the calculations that would be needed to figure out what would actually be needed.

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| Wouldn't the heatsinks need to have very high temperature conductivity? I don't think so. If you were to build /very tall/ tubes arching up into the upper atmosphere and cycle water through them (warm water up, cooling, and them travelling back down the other side of the arch), you could easily make them out of insulated concrete and still have to worry about freezing rather than lack of cooling. Of course, the problem then becomes what material can build this sort of structure, balancing height with throughput to prevent freezing. But over long time periods, I think that you would also have to worry about the heat sinks evaporating the upper levels of the atmosphere.

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