Nutty Professor Has Solution to Mitigate Global Warming

BBC NEWS ^ | 2/19/07

[Uncle Peter]

Launching rockets to create a sulphur screen high in the stratosphere is one way to counter global warming explored in a new BBC documentary, Five Ways To Save The World.

[Uncle Peter]

Yours: This is not straightforward aerospace engineering, with mature technologies.

This is certainly not straightforward. It is a postulate and nothing more. Since this SOV is merely a concept in some engineer's mind and has yet to be built, it could not be scientifically proven, it is not even a theory.

You site no empirical evidence in any argument you present. Rather, you defer to: "This actual guy says this and that" but go no further toward justifying your remarks.

Your reasoning is flawed in that you site a company that pioneered in ultralite aircraft- hardly an attribute for commercial cargo hauling sulphur into the stratosphere in a vehichle that has not yet been built tested.

As for mature technology, that's the domain of Irrefutable Scientific Fact

[jonrick46]

Good night! What happened to flubber? We could fly the sulfur up on flubber! Yeh! That's the ticket!

/sarcasm.

[Uncle Peter]

Are you not aware of the fact that 747's fly at ceilings of a few KM and do not come close to the 40-60KM needed for this hair brain scheme.

[jonrick46]

The Nutty Professor must be the Absent Minded Professer. He forgot about the Flubber. We must fly the sulfur up on Flubber!

[NonZeroSum]

Since this SOV is merely a concept in some engineer's mind and has yet to be built, it could not be scientifically proven, it is not even a theory.

Once again, it is not "merely a concept in some engineer's mind." It is under construction in Mojave, and due to enter service in a couple years. Just what is it that has to be "scientifically proven"? It is based established engineering design handbooks, the same ones that are used to build airliners. We know how to build airplanes. We know how to build operable rocket engines (XCOR has hundreds of hours on theirs, with no hard starts, and no explosions). Rutan put such a vehicle into space a couple years ago. He's simply scaling it up a little for more passengers, and building a fleet of them.

And Capitalizing and putting words in bold doesn't lend any weight to your (non)arguments. It just makes you look like a netkook.

[Uncle Peter]

FACT:

• SOV is a concept. Not one has flown. Not one has been built. They have been designed but never left the drawing board. An airplane is not an SOV because it relies on oxygen for combustion whereas SOV's carry their own and are technically rockets and are therefore capable of attaining a much higher ceiling.

• In order for something to be "Scientifically Proven", it must suffer the scrutiny of the Scientific Method, wherein a postulate acquires theoretical validity, then proceeds to be indepentently confirmed. It is at that point that it ascends to Fact.

[NonZeroSum]

SOV is a concept. Not one has flown. Not one has been built. They have been designed but never left the drawing board. An airplane is not an SOV because it relies on oxygen for combustion whereas SOV's carry their own and are technically rockets and are therefore capable of attaining a much higher ceiling.

What in the world is an "SOV"?

I told you. Burt Rutan flew a rocketplane into space (to a hundred kilometers) two years ago, twice within two weeks. All it required was refueling. It was called SpaceShipOne. It was in the news. He is building a larger version of it now. It could do the mission described. What part of this do you not understand?

[edsheppa]

Do you know what the word "proxy" means?

[Political Junkie Too]

According to Hugo Chavez, all we have to do is get President Bush to give a few speeches at the United Nations, and the problem is solved.

-PJ

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[edsheppa]

And while I'm asking, where'd you get 40-60 km? The article mentions 10-40 km.

[Mike Darancette]

Couldn't you just let passenger jets user higher sulphur fuel?

[Paradox]

Ping to myself for later reading. Although these might be viewed by some as hairbrained, I am glad some thinking is going into this, "just in case". And yes, I have read the "debate" that is going on in here..

[noname07718]

You are joking, aren’t you?

[noname07718]

Good one!

[noname07718]

How many Sub-orbital vehicles are there in the world? What is the time lag between flights? How soon can the first Sub-orbital ship be ready? Where are the crews training?

Why not a Mag-Lev rail gun. There have been many studies and Computer simulations where the practicality of such a sub-orbital delivery system have proven moderately feasible

[noname07718]

You happen to ignore the fact that the re-launch time for Burt Rutan’s vehicle was measured in weeks. The Payload was 1 human being. Need more math.

[noname07718]

We seem to have a lot of emotion and passion on these postings with very little regards for facts and evidence to support their outlandish screeches. Please don’t confuse these acolytes of High Priest Gore with facts and logic. Their little brains couldn’t handle the overload and the tops of their heads might blow off.

[noname07718]

What is the payload for your wonder machine?? You need to get your head out of the clouds and deal with the real world. Even if this SOV is under design and construction, when will the fleet of thousands be available for service? There is no way that a rocket can be turned around for re-launch in hours, days or even weeks.

The world needs dreamers, but there should be a scrap of realism in the dreams.

[noname07718]

With a payload of one human being!

Ge real!