Airborne Algae is the Answer
Now that we all know we’re going to fry to death we’re in a massive panic. Rather than dealing with the pain of changing our bad habits we should instead look toward the scientific community for a quick Panadol style fix it for us and of course we’re reading about such hypothesis daily. Today’s was some kind of mirror arrangement thingy. The physics dudes are manning the front line of boys-own-pop-science speculation right now but I reckon the molecular genetics chaps and chapettes will be parachuting in any time with theorem fresh from the bleeding edge of bio-discovery.
And hey, how long do you think it will be before we learn about Airborne Algae, genetically modeled to float in the atmosphere, block sunlight whilst photosynthesising, thus taking in C02 then falling out of the sky when they’ve gained enough weight and or when the C02 levels have dropped to their optimum levels? It might just work!
Bosh, that’s my bit done. I can leave my lights on tonight.
March 1st, 2007 at 9:47 am
That’s mad enough that it might just work!
Except we’ll be all be sloshing around in obese CO2 filled algae… Nice.
March 2nd, 2007 at 11:57 am
Hi Nik, What’s in the box?
http://www.andybennett.net/2007/03/02/whats-in-the-box/
March 11th, 2007 at 3:33 am
Only problem is there’s no way to guarantee they’ll stop when we want them to. They could just keep reproducing until they start out-competing the world’s plant life for CO2, and then where will we be?
March 19th, 2007 at 4:56 pm
I think the genetic peeps will have to design them so they die when the C02 levels get too high like yeast perish in alcohol at 13% concentrations or thereabouts. But if they mutate and get a higher tolerance to C02 levels then indeed, all flora will die and we’ll all be FUCKED!
June 15th, 2007 at 1:05 am
You have it backwards. We need them to die off when CO2 levels get too LOW, i.e. when they’ve eaten enough of the stuff to stop global warming.
June 15th, 2007 at 11:13 am
ah yes, maybe i meant it that way round. duh. not doing a good job saving the planet am i?
August 21st, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Please quickly contact me at otivaeey@gmail.com.
Since 3 years ago, I had the same dream as stated in your website about airborne chloroplasts. I took it very seriously and discovered a potential kind of algae. They are called chlamydomonas nivalis which only exist in cold climate.
I hope that someone, not just me is racing against the goal to achieve mitigating global warming by airborne chloroplast.
You know, the dreamt chloroplast is like this, the algae solution is mixed with brine, and the solution is sprayed controllably into the earth’s jet streams. The brine contains all the minerals required for growth. When it’s mature, it developed into a very tiny marshmallow or cotton ball structure and acts like a nuclei for water condensation, and lastly dropped to the ground with rain. At the groundzero, it remains static, sunken into the deep sea, and will never decompose back into CO2.
Please let me stop my pen right here, wishing to see you next time. We will have more to discuss I’m sure about.
August 21st, 2008 at 6:01 pm
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