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#1801 Today 13:32:54
- Void
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Re: Worlds, and World Engine type terraform stuff.
Maximized Shade-Balls, Shade-Cylinders.
There are only two worlds where I think this technology might have merit. Earth and Mars.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shade_ball
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What I am after is a means to special environments like deserts and others. The hope is to find an alternate use for Carbon in fossil fuel reserves and also the CO2 in the atmosphere.
My idea is to make very large Shade Balls or Shade Cylinders.
Cylinders could work well for Canals in Deserts.
For Something like the Salton Sea, then whole rows of Cylinders. It can partially sun follow either North South or East West.
The ball itself makes primarily of plastics, and the sundeck to keep UV off of the plastic for the most part.
The internal waters could be capable of supporting a crop. For instance, for the Dead Sea, you could put fresh water in and grow things like duckweed for instance.
Part of the game is to limit evaporation. So, if you did a lot of this you might be able to expand the Dead Sea, and cover the exposed toxic soils.
It would probably make sense to take water from the Colorado River and fill basins which will be evaporating prohibited. You could cover much of Lake Mead, I think.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_Mead
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The green goblins with their anti-micro-plastics Hysteria, are most likely socialists and commie wanna-bees, who hope to cripple cultures they want to take over.
Tell them to cure micro-plastics for things like Car Tires and Synthetic Clothing before worrying about the Maximized Shade flotation devices.
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For Mars you might do it dry on flat soil. But later when the planet is partially terraformed it might be possible to convert over to very salty cold bring that they can float on.
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#1802 Today 20:49:41
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Re: Worlds, and World Engine type terraform stuff.
From the last post:
My idea is to make very large Shade Balls or Shade Cylinders.
Cylinders could work well for Canals in Deserts.
For Something like the Salton Sea, then whole rows of Cylinders. It can partially sun follow either North South or East West.
So, I am imagining a future world, where AI and robotics might have dropped the cost of hardware, to say 10% or 5% of what it would be now.
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