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[quote]Desert areas could be an effective way of curbing emissions of CO2.
Dubbed "carbon farming", researchers say the idea is economically competitive with high-tech carbon capture and storage projects.
But critics say the idea could be have unforeseen, negative impacts including driving up food prices.[/quote]
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-23518879[/url]
"Driving up food prices" ..By supplying more fuel? That makes total sense in the world of corporate malfeasance.
Go nuts, guys. Anything that lets me enjoy my V8s and curbs CO2 emissions at the same time is something I can get behind.
I was designing last year a tower that would both yeild crops, as well as act as a solar and wind power plant using hydrophonics, but i didn't have to design so much, so my professor cut it to one part.
[QUOTE=TheDestroyerOfall;41681644]I was designing last year a tower that would both yeild crops, as well as act as a solar and wind power plant using hydrophonics, but i didn't have to design so much, so my professor cut it to one part.[/QUOTE]
That is really cool, you should really finalize the whole tower though. We really need people to be designing such things.
[QUOTE=TheDestroyerOfall;41681644]I was designing last year a tower that would both yeild crops, as well as act as a solar and wind power plant using hydrophonics, but i didn't have to design so much, so my professor cut it to one part.[/QUOTE]
Closed circuit hydroponics would be [I]soooooo[/I] much healthier for coastal and lake ecosystems. Farming is honestly one of the main contributors to the declining health of the ocean and lakes.
[QUOTE=OvB;41681699]Closed circuit hydroponics would be [I]soooooo[/I] much healthier for coastal and lake ecosystems. Farming is honestly one of the main contributors to the declining health of the ocean and lakes.[/QUOTE]
It would be hard to collect, considering i planned the thing 10 stories tall, the wind actually was supposed to be scrubbed by the plans, help reducing CO2. It's like this analogy..
Why have a store that's 1000x1000, when you could do 100x100 ten times? Stacked on top of each other. So not only the tower be both energy efficent, it would be literally 10 stories of plants and turbines, with solar panels on top and the sides of it. It would rotate with the wind too. It'd be extremely incredible to see especially here, where it's mostly desert.
Oh, and the stories would be independently rotatable as well.
[QUOTE=TheDestroyerOfall;41681806]It would be hard to collect, considering i planned the thing 10 stories tall, the wind actually was supposed to be scrubbed by the plans, help reducing CO2. It's like this analogy..
Why have a store that's 1000x1000, when you could do 100x100 ten times? Stacked on top of each other. So not only the tower be both energy efficent, it would be literally 10 stories of plants and turbines, with solar panels on top and the sides of it. It would rotate with the wind too. It'd be extremely incredible to see especially here, where it's mostly desert.
Oh, and the stories would be independently rotatable as well.[/QUOTE]
Well hydroponic farms usually have the seeds/plants in floating foam blocks. You could have a robotic system on the ceiling/in the tank that collects plants and harvests them from the blocks.
[QUOTE=OvB;41681849]Well hydroponic farms usually have the seeds/plants in floating foam blocks. You could have a robotic system on the ceiling/in the tank that collects plants and harvests them from the blocks.[/QUOTE]
That's actually exactly what i was thinking but forgot to put in. since you can't use things like tractors, there would be options to add in the ceiling robots to help harvest plants.
TheDestroyerOfall could in fact be the one who saves us all.
(sorry, I like your idea though!)
[QUOTE=Killer900;41681942]TheDestroyerOfall could in fact be the one who saves us all.
(sorry, I like your idea though!)[/QUOTE]
I'm the hero this world deserves, but not the one it needs right now.
[QUOTE=TheDestroyerOfall;41681806]It would be hard to collect, considering i planned the thing 10 stories tall, the wind actually was supposed to be scrubbed by the plans, help reducing CO2. It's like this analogy..
Why have a store that's 1000x1000, when you could do 100x100 ten times? Stacked on top of each other. So not only the tower be both energy efficent, it would be literally 10 stories of plants and turbines, with solar panels on top and the sides of it. It would rotate with the wind too. It'd be extremely incredible to see especially here, where it's mostly desert.
Oh, and the stories would be independently rotatable as well.[/QUOTE]
Can I have your kids man?
I'm a guy but you know, we'll find a way.
Driving up food prices? That's a price that I am willing to pay for the earth to live.
[QUOTE=TheDestroyerOfall;41681644]I was designing last year a tower that would both yeild crops, as well as act as a solar and wind power plant using hydrophonics, but i didn't have to design so much, so my professor cut it to one part.[/QUOTE]
I swear to God, if you don't finish this then I will send you an angry letter.
[QUOTE=Red scout?;41683572]Driving up food prices? That's a price that I am willing to pay for the earth to live.[/QUOTE]
as long as it isn't an absurd amount
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[QUOTE=Red scout?;41683572]Driving up food prices? That's a price that I am willing to pay for the earth to live.[/QUOTE]The Earth is going to live no matter if we're here or not.
good combine this with nuclear powered ship-based distilation plants, and you are good to go!
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