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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“Our planet is going through the irreversible process of global warming”!? Er, we are in an intertglacial, i.e in between the normal earth-state of ice age, and I suppose he would have proposed a giant space mirror in the 70s when the cry was “global cooling”!
Okay, okay, how about this for a guess: He’s only in it for the money.
I’ve been waiting for some environut too propose resolving two ‘problems’ at the same time. Take all of the earth’s nukes and start blasting the moon. Keep it up until all the nukes are gone and the moon is just a dusty ring around earth. The result would be a permanent lunar dust solar eclipse, ending both the global warming threat and getting rid of all those nasty nukes. Tides? Who needs tides?
I would wager that someone could get a lot of donations to promote that concept.
Considering the rapid devolution of Mankind’s intellect, I don’t think we’ll still be around for another fifty years, so all of this is a moot point.
Where’s Mosh?
I really want to see what sales pitch he can offer for this one. !
Also build one diametrically opposite and hang seats from them both. Then Richard Branson could promote it as the first ride in the Galactic Fairground.
GLOBAL COOLING SKYSCRAPER
Date: aprile 8, 2016
Author: Paolo
Category: PROJECTS
← SUPER PUSH
THE JUMP →
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.
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for “this is causing”: PROJECTS
one really needs ← SUPER PUSH THE JUMP →
It has to be a unique and continuous structure, placed in a single point, and cantilever on both sides. It results as a tangent object on the planet.
It touches the ground in a unique point, and for this reason it is perceived in different ways from different parts of the world.
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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, –
No need to support trillions of tons of building:
when the gravitational center is balanced in the distance of centripetal equilibrium.
One can only imagine if the tales told about the annunaki that came to Earth some 300.000 years ago to mine for gold that was to be changed in some way and seeded in their atmosphere to save their planet could be true. The gold mines in South Africa that predate us would suggest yes. Wasting all the gold on Earth would be cheaper than this project.
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Oh come on Wayne, surely you don’t believe those silly wives tales about Annunaki stealing all that gold do you ? It is a well known fact that they were just borrowing it to see what it looked like atop their Tower of Apsu !! Sheesh !
“renewables”, e-cars won’t work till the problems of energy storage are’nt solved.
That cooling skyscraper first needs developing the material to bear it’s own weight.
Sigh !
Last remark:
Problem 1:
https//en.wikipedia.org.wiki/Flywheel_energy_storage
2. bean stalk problem –
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevators_in_fiction
the green belivers on their flywheel space elevators – concepts ~50 years older then CAGW!
Space elevators are fantasy, one of the US military’s surveillance blips broke it’s tether a while back and the tether caused a lot of damage, a broken space lift would wreak havoc right around the globe
“The blimp broke away from its mooring near Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland and came down in Pennsylvania, but not before its heavy tethering cables dragged on the ground for 20 miles, bringing down power lines and cutting electricity.”
Why were they doing surveillance on the Amish??!! Do those buggies have a habit of not stopping at stop signs?
LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The current largest mega structures on earth would fit in it’s pocket.
This is obviously fiction.
And yes, there is no way to stop such a massive construction from affecting our spin, the center of gravity will change so will earth’s spin and wobble on the axis.
This is the very sort of idea that will actually cause man made climate change
Yeah, the greens world –
back 2 the future – redevelop stoneage.
If this tower supersedes the Trump Tower, it will probably be nuked as a part of the new US foreign policy…
No, take no risk, call for the Climate psychologist instead.
For the sake of good order, climate psychologists are real: In Norway we e.g. have the climate psychologist Per Espen Stokknes who can “help all of us who have felt the climate depression lure in the dark corners of our brains”. Sic!
At the onset of the next ice age, the structure is rotated 180 degrees.
In the bizarre world of CAGW Alarmism, they are now battling it out to see who can be the nuttiest of all.
Reminds me of “Shortstack’, a short story that appeared in the December 1964 issue of pulp magazine Analog Sci-Fi featuring Willy Shorts, a Tom Swfft-like boy wonder who (in this story) proposed and built a 1000 foot plastic chimney in the desert, for the purpose of generating electricity from the updraft. You can read a short excerpt of this story HERE.
Among Willy Shorts’ other absurd discoveries (another story, ‘Shortsite’) was… a room temperature superconductor. Yesterday’s exciting science fiction may become tomorrow’s boring science fact.
Meh, already been done:
Dumb and dumber – that’s what it seems to me. Using their own arguments against them, how much carbon dioxide would be created in building this thing? Probably would have a more negative (to them) impact than they wish, IMHO.
If all you have is a hammer, get a giant super-duper- mega colossal hammer.
Yes, well, of course, this is just the sort blinkered philistine pig ignorance I’ve come to expect from you non-creative garbage. You sit there on your loathsome, spotty behinds squeezing blackheads, not caring a tinker’s cuss about the struggling artist.
(Monty Python of course but you can tell they knew a few architects)
Fair enough! I’ve changed my mind!
sigh
Italian architect Paolo Venturella must be a graduate of the George Castanza School of Architecture with connections to VanDelay Industries that wants to build this thing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Costanza for those who don’t get the references.
His post graduate work was done at the Wylie C. Coyote School of Functionality.
That should be Wile E. Coyote
Our planet is going through the irreversible process of global warming
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“irreversible” means that no matter what we do, the global warming will continue.
so why build a skyscraper if you have already decided that it cannot reverse global warming?
“so why build a skyscraper if you have already decided that it cannot reverse global warming?” ???
Because if you keep going, and eventually reaching the Moon, we could all ride an “elevator” to the Moon !
I can see “Great” vacations to the Moon, with free Gourmet Meals along for the ride !!
Has anyone seen Emeril Lagasse or Bobby Flay ?
While getting his degree from the Castanza School of Architecture, Paolo obviously aced the course on “any PR is good PR” but skipped the classes on climate physics, much less ever clicking on WUWT.
Actually Gaia invented his solution an eternity ago and has deployed it on many planets. The thunderstorms that Willis so eloquently describes as the “Thermostat Hypothesis” are just such gigantic cooling towers. However, Gaia is a much more advanced engineer than Paolo – hers can be built out of nothing but condensed water, sourced locally, erected in minutes when needed and moved to any location where there is excess heat to be dissipated.
But wait! According to his website (under jobs), he is looking for a partner, because he is the guy with “smart ideas.” Now is your chance folks! Sell the car – sell the house – sell the kids – move to Rome and get in on the ground floor with what will certainly be Italy’s next Nicola Tesla!
I’ll bet this guy has read Larry Niven’s Ringworld. In that sci-fi novel, Ringworld is a manufactured wide ribbon that completely surrounds it’s central star, with high walls on both sides of the ribbon, which, combined with centripetal effects, holds in an atmosphere, creating a living habitat of almost unimaginable dimensions. Each locale on the sun-facing surface of Ringworld has artificial periods of day and night, created by a inner concentric ring rotating at a different speed, with solid panels alternating with open areas to block out the sunlight. Hell, why don’t we just build THAT instead?
I have some shadow-square wire here in my pocket… oops, my hand just fell off.
There one can see a bridge to the moon, a tunnel from NY to Europe and other absolutely stupid fantasies.