The climate change consensus extends beyond climate scientists

[Xist]

How is space tether technology looking? Are electric catapults feasible for cargo?

I have always wondered about bombarding Mars with comets.

[oil pan 4]

Use a lissajous orbit like the stereo solar obsevation satellites use.
But it will be easier to find what we need here for a very long time.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by oil pan 4

But it will be easier to find what we need here for a very long time.

Yes, we'll have Wally-bots mining old landfills long before we're harvesting space minerals.

[freebeard]

I once watched Eugene Water & Electric board employees drop $25,000 worth of copper into a landfill. It was in transformers filled with PCB.

Everybody is in too much of a hurry.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interp...nsport_Network

The Interplanetary Transport Network (ITN)[1] is a collection of gravitationally determined pathways through the Solar System that require very little energy for an object to follow. The ITN makes particular use of Lagrange points as locations where trajectories through space are redirected using little or no energy. These points have the peculiar property of allowing objects to orbit around them, despite lacking an object to orbit. While they use little energy, the transport can take a very long time. Shane Ross has said "Due to the long time needed to achieve the low energy transfers between planets, the Interplanetary Superhighway is impractical for transfers such as from Earth to Mars at present."[2]

[freebeard]

Originally Posted by myself

New Zealand is now a commercial space-faring nation.

"Still Testing" Heh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5k1mlu6A7I

Kerosene/LOX
3D printed engine parts
Composite fuel tanks
electric turbo-pumps

The claim is that it's Moon-capable.

[Xist]

1. Send your 64 best unmarried and childless men and 64 best unmarried childless women on a generation ship.
2. Develop FTL drive.
3. Send your 1,024 most annoying future equivalents of millenials.
4. Have them arrive just hours before the generation ship.
5. The generation ship is greeted by a horde of entitled and hungry locusts expecting someone else to make dinner.
6. The generation ship leaves for Venus.

[freebeard]

'Old age and treachery...'

They'll trade their FTL drive for lunch.

[freebeard]

Two stories from the 'be careful what you wish for' department:

Creating clouds to stop global warming could wreak havoc - usatoday

A technology many hoped would fight climate change would cause even bigger environmental problems, scientists say - Chicago Tribune

The first is premised on starting and then stopping abruptly (inadvertently or not)

Researchers in the study used computer models to simulate what would happen if geoengineering led to climate cooling and then what would happen if the geoengineering stopped suddenly.

The second on growing biomass specifically to pyrolyze it.

But the core idea is burning trees or other plants for energy while pulling in the resulting carbon dioxide and storing it below ground.

Of course, the first of the three Rs is Reduce.

[oil pan 4]

I like reduce, reuse and recycle.
Because I'm cheap.

[NeilBlanchard]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fh4gCHXFOgc

We will avoid huge economic costs, if we address climate change, and we will save lots of money in the long run, by moving to renewable energy.

Increasing carbon in the soil - which will remove it from the air - will also have big benefits. Each gram of carbon in the soil can absorb at least 8 grams of water (and as much as 20gm in some soils), and the biology that created the soil increases, with more carbon. And nutrients are held in the carbon, as well.

Carbon bonds with everything. We can clean up brown fields with carbon, too.