Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Italian architect Paolo Venturella has proposed a gigantic megastructure to prevent global warming, though building it may present a few practical difficulties.
Our planet is going through the irreversible process of global warming, and even if various strategies have been planned to solve the problem, none of them provided a solution.
This is causing natural disasters all over the planet. The temperature all around the planet is increasing making the ice in the pole melt.
Only a “global strategy” can be adopted.
To cool down the temperature a huge greenhouse is placed in between the sun and us.
This works according the same principle of the “solar tower”. Thanks to the accumulation of heat in the glazed structure, air flows naturally from hot to cold generating rapid and strong flows. These flows bring hot air far from the Earth cooling down the temperature of the whole globe.
The air flows restore better climate conditions and moreover generate renewable energies by wind turbines placed inside the structures.
Read more: http://www.paoloventurella.it/global-cooling-skyscraper/
Its worth visiting Paolo’s website just to see the gargantuan scale of what he is proposing – a vast horizontal building touching the Earth’s equator, whose size appears to dwarf the diameter of the planet.
As I said, there are a few practical difficulties, such as smelting all that construction steel using wind power, finding a way to get a chunk of the Earth’s crust to support trillions of tons of building, handling the centripetal stresses caused by the Earth’s rotation, preventing the building from “seesawing” on its mount, and probably a host of other civic engineering issues.
Paolo’s diagram of what appears to be hot air venting into deep space also raises some obvious concerns about the long term impact of his proposal, even if such a structure could be built.
However, lets hope Paolo qualifies for his Cyclotron Road funding – in my opinion the megastructure proposal makes at least as much sense as some of the other projects being funded by the US government, and Paolo’s idea has a sort of cosmic grandeur.
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irreversible???
….then don’t spend another penny
Amen.
….irreversible ==> stop reading.
“Our planet is going through the irreversible process of global warming”
Let’s see how that pans out for him in the next couple of decades, shall we. 🙂
..OMG, the World has gone mad !
Not the world, just leftists.
A high school science fair project, I presume…
No ! 4-H Club.
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My first reaction was that that’s a serious insult to 4-H.
With the decrease in rural population, one would expect that 4-H would get smaller. It sounds like they are doing what organizations tend to do. They are attempting to change their mandate to ensure the organization’s survival. Sigh.
AA?
But, if we are going down this – ah, interesting – road the I moot it is built on an equatorial gantry, so it can go round our world – at 900 mph, facing the sun permanently.
Problem solved.
Might there be other problems – ahhh ignore then – the science is settled, isn’t it??
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3H! Hokie Hooey that’s Hard to justify
No! Show and tell during the period between group meetings at the institution.
I wonder how he intends to replace the air lost to space?
What a crock!
I thought we already had a huge greenhouse up there off of Earth that our esteemed (U.S.) Secretary of State said was maybe half an inch thick and that even kids could understand –
http://www.climatedepot.com/2014/03/04/sec-of-state-john-kerry-explains-the-science-of-global-warming-kids-at-the-earliest-age-can-understand-this-its-a-huge-irony-that-the-very-same-layer-of-gases-that-has-made-life-possibl/
“maybe half an inch thick ”
John Kerry is FAR thicker than that. !!
But he has a magic hat
If it was an oil company proposing such a structure to help humanity (rather than “saving the planet”), there’d be all manner of outrage from green quarters saying such a thing would destroy the planet AND use up all the mineral resources ever available (I don’t know, “peak minerals” or something). Good intentions – and green ones, naturally – make it all right and worth all the money, all the destruction, all the unintended consequences. /sarc.
Green dreams of course are pure and by default could never harm a living creature (not including mankind who shouldn’t be here). /bigger sarc.
I demand equality for good intentions! /ginormous sarc!
0.3 sec of fame…
@TomRude, you are giving him a break, I was thinking more along the line of 0.001.
Why not have mylar mini-blinds on a cosmic scale? Servo motors and an ABS frame lined with solar panels and ion engines to maintain geostationary orbit. Should keep NASA and their contractors busy for years and will undoubtedly advance extra-atmospheric construction techniques. Money better spent than the failing solar and wind subsidies.
Or how about a global tinfoil hat?
+1
Don’t give them any ideas.
Reflector at the L1 point should just about do it.
Yeah, Steve, that would be a better science fair project. A really big reflector at the L1 point with electric thrusters to counteract the radiation pressure. Maybe big enough to eclipse about 5% of the sun when closed? We rotate it 90 deg when the Ice Age starts coming, close it when Siberia threatens to be agriculturally productive.
Ah humans… we do like to control our world rather than adapt.
Why don’t we just do that nuclear winter thing and make everybody happy ?? I mean look at Chernobyl now, a wildlife refuge.
Yes, the radiation there only affect people.
That’s racism. Or speciesism, if there is such a word.
Yeah that sounds like a great idea. Oh ! I know, how about just building a giant air-conditioner and put a thermostat on it?!!! That should do the trick.
That’s it! All that’s required is a 7 mile high condensing unit. Then the whole tropics will be like waiting for a ride at Disneyland, cool and breezy.
NO! Thermostat adjustments would cause a world war of the sexes! 🙂
“and put a thermostat on it”
And what temperature would we set the thermostat at?
it doesn’t matter since your wife would alter it anyway..
I don’t know. I’ve been waiting for a warmunist to tell me what the right temperature of the Earth is for almost thirty years now. So far if anyone knows this magic number, no one is saying.
The perfect temperature is the temperature that is thought to have existed when humans began to burn fossil fuels on a large scale.
That was also the perfect level of atmospheric CO2.
No matter the scientific facts on how life in the past did with lower or higher levels than those. . We are already well above the perfect levels of the past. Any increase above that is bad. Model projections make it crystal clear………..higher by X amount will be catastrophic.
How clever – making a structure to ensure a snowball earth forever. Einstein was right, human stupidity is infinite.
No, No! You don’t understand! To counter the snowball Earth we will put large reflectors at the leading and training Lagrange points and focus them on the Earth when it gets too cold.
See our intelligence is amazing when we act totally from emotion (fear) and let our betters do the thinking for us.
(Do I need to add /sarc? Where is that sarcasm font when you need it anyway!)
@owen, For cooling, you would need to be closer to Sol than L1. For warming, somewhere between L4 and L1 would be better. In either case, you would be on the “down-slope” of the gravity well leading to Sol, and you could use the radiation pressure to keep you from sliding in, thereby saving fuel.
It’s kinda hyptnotizing, isn’t it?
Do these people ever stop to think “what if we are wrong?” I mean, ever? What the Earth really does go into a new ice age?
That’s why I like my extra-atmospheric mini-blind idea. We just fold it up and convert it to a solar reflector to heat Mars.
Could you set up one of those just for my house?
Liberals and academics do not believe in the possibility of their being wrong.
There are academics and academics. I frequently quote Cromwell to my students: “I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, consider it possible that you may be wrong”, and one of my colleagues takes chocolates into class to give to students who find mistakes in anything he has written.
Looks OK by me. What could possibly go wrong… go wrong… go wrong… go wrong…
;o)
Hmm… The tower of Babel just popped into my head.
I know, the gods could get really angry if people did a building like that. But think how angry the said gods become when people commit the sin of learning each other’s language, or, even worserer, make a translation device like Magogletranslate?! Repent, sinner!
Paolo was 7 days late by publishing this Apr 8 in his blog. And, to tell you the truth, if this is NOT April’s fools, I’d never ever hire this man to plan any building whatsoever, because he apparently does not have the faintest idea of how much weight steel can stand; nor how much it costs; now how much energy steel production takes.
You have me wondering now, Hugs. Do you think all his architectural experience to date has been with Lego structures?
As an Engineer type, I wish I could come up with impractical, cost prohibitive solutions to my problems in day to day life. I just wish i could be paid to think, let alone do any meaningful work. I think this is what artist do, on second thought, they actually create something meaningful for humanity.
Some, but a cross in a jar of urine?
Artists are paid to create emotions and start discussion, and outrage is an emotion and we are talking about it. So, I have to say that it was successful in those goals.
I have no problem with artists creating whatever the heck they want.
My outrage is at being forced to fund it.
How cross in a jar of urine relates here? It was another artist, wasn’t it?
A cross in urine is a no-brainer, if you try to ‘shock’. To shock for real, these days you needed something more controversial, like an Islamic symbol together with an unholy thing. I won’t spell it out, though, these guys, when shocked, will peacefully behead somebody if they don’t manage to do an extended suicide.
The Paolo guy has been planning a Guggenheim branded art business building into Helsinki. Looking at the pictures, he adds wow in Wow architecture by doing incredible designs (but not in the good way). I hope he wasn’t paid for his crap.
If we built it, we’d be geo-engineering a natural environment. And, if it works as advertized, it could throw us into another glacial advance. Why don’t the globalwarmists fear a cooler earth?
Oh. That’s right. Because they pay no attention to actual climate history–or human history, for that matter–and don’t have the slightest clue how devastating a global temperature drop of a few degrees would be.
It already does it. No building required.
Well they say the should only be about 100 million (or some such number) humans on Earth. A new glaciation would be one way to accomplish that in short order.
Reminds me of all the silly devices you would see in an old Sears mail order catalog.
…Or one of those greeting card sales prizes on the back of Boy’s Life Magazine.
YUM.. or am I remembering a different magazine !!!
Must have been subconscious… 🙂
Or the laughable “world of tomorrow” articles from the 1950s.science fiction.
Now don’t get me started on my flying car!!!
“Thanks to the accumulation of heat in the glazed structure, air flows naturally from hot to cold generating rapid and strong flows. These flows bring hot air far from the Earth cooling down the temperature of the whole globe.”
Already does that. Called convection currents. No building required. No wasted resources. It was in full swing in Iowa today…gave me a headache.
“Thanks to the accumulation of heat in the glazed structure, air flows naturally from hot to cold generating rapid and strong flows. These flows bring hot air far from the Earth cooling down the temperature of the whole globe.”
And then cool air will naturally be drawn in to replace that hot old air with the nasty CO2 pollution in it . . a two fer!! ; )
And we get it all – for free – right now 😉
If this device takes hot air and dumps it far from the earth, won’t the earth start running low on atmosphere pretty quickly?
I could be wrong, but if that is to scale, I shouldn’t think the spin of the planet would allow it to stand long enough to complete. It would never get that far.
Oh my God….. They finally have reached the point where one of the warming catastophists has posited the use of an Umbrella to save the Earth from frying in the noon day sun.
We used to joke about this.
Is this the point were Mary Poppins meets the Guardians of the Universe?
What part of the equator always faces the sun? Am I missing something?
We’re only doing the WH. Then we’ll pay the rest of the world UN mandated restitution for having screwed up the Hadley circulation which caused a new ice-age.
🙂
They’ll use the generated power to move the building around the equator at over 1,000 MPH so it always stays closest to the sun. Surely a supersonic building which has to let air flow through won’t encounter any problems with airflow.
The stupidity. It burns!
“Paolo’s idea has a sort of cosmic grandeur.”
Are you sure you didn’t mean
“has a sort of comic grandeur.”?
Paolo’s idea, in short, distinguishes 10 types of people. Those who actually can design buildings, those who should stick to drawing cartoons, and those who think in terms of ternary.
Personally, the only thing I want to know about this project is what color of crayons were used in the original submission?
If there was ever any doubt warmistas are the stupidest SOBs to ever wear the mantle of science on their pointy heads, this should forever dispel them.
They can’t be the stupidest. Human stupidity is infinite. So, there must be somebody out there even stupider…Although they must surely be in the running for a blue ribbon.
If All Gore in sales says it’s a good idea, I think I’m in. Maybe run it by James Hansen over at Frightened and Goofy and see what he thinks. Or maybe if he thinks!
“These flows bring hot air far from the Earth cooling down the temperature of the whole globe.” Ha ha ha ha ha. Priceless. Just needs Bill Nye sagely nodding and stroking his chin.
So do these flows of hot air vent to space?
Yes, of course. Where else?
And they will be replaced by fresh, cool, pristine flows of air.
We should get going on that right after we replace all the bad plumbing in Flint, Michigan.
Silly people. Everyone knows it’s cold in space, so that cools the air. Then it falls back down to earth because of gravity. Why, if we could funnel it back into pipes on the way back down we could run it through turbines again and collect power from it both coming and going. Perpetual Motion!
I can almost smell the science. ^¿^
It must be awful to live constantly in fear. Don’t these people ever want to try something else for a change?
“Our planet is going through the irreversible process of global warming, and even if various strategies have been planned to solve the problem, none of them provided a solution.”
If it was irreversible,this nimrod would be living in a shack on a glacier where NYC now sits. What is irreversible,except through constant ridicule,is these clowns. And we allow them to propagate?