Bill Gates Funds Seawater-Spraying Cloud Machines 403
lucidkoan writes "Environmentalists have long argued about whether geoengineering (using technology to alter the climate) is a good way to tackle climate change. But the tactic has some heavy hitters on its side, including Bill Gates. The Microsoft founder recently announced plans to invest $300,000 into research for machines that suck up seawater and spray it into the air, seeding white clouds that reflect rays of sunlight away from Earth. The machines, developed by a San Francisco-based research group called Silver Lining, turn seawater into tiny particles that can be shot up over 3,000 feet in the air. The particles increase the density of clouds by increasing the amount of nuclei contained within."
300 HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS! (Score:5, Funny)
Hmmm (Score:3, Funny)
I believe the phrase is "What could possibly go wrong..."
Fatal flaw (Score:5, Funny)
Unfortunately, the machines are solar-powered.
Re:300 HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS! (Score:3, Funny)
Bill Gates announces World's Largest Supersoaker! (Score:3, Funny)
Awesome.
I just blew a seal... (Score:5, Funny)
...700 feet into the air
Re:What could (Score:3, Funny)
Well, let's see. The salt falls back down. A proportion of it falls to the ground, slowly salting farmland. Famine sets in, and after the temporary greenhouse impact of a few hundreds of millions of corpses decaying, anthropogenic global warming reduces by virtue of less "anthropo" to "genic" that carbon dioxide.
Problem solved.
Vaporware (Score:5, Funny)
Re:300 HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS! (Score:5, Funny)
Off to register 'squirtsforsure.com' Soon to the the hottest pr0n site on the internet.
Re:What could (Score:5, Funny)
I suggest unicorns on a treadmill.
Brett
Re:I just blew a seal... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Fatal flaw (Score:3, Funny)
But they shoot up 100 tons of plankton per hour to their death.
Re:Isn't water vapor... (Score:2, Funny)
Cloud Services, LOL (Score:4, Funny)
No relataionship to the Microsoft Cloud Services advertized here on /.
Re:Hmmm (Score:3, Funny)
I believe the phrase is "What could possibly go wrong..."
Pehaps "what clouds possibly go wrong..."
Re:Hmmm (Score:3, Funny)
Actually, I think a better phrase for this is "Bill, I think you misunderstood all that talk about cloud computing."
Re:What could (Score:2, Funny)
Well, let's see. The salt falls back down. A proportion of it falls to the ground, slowly salting farmland. Famine sets in, and after the temporary greenhouse impact of a few hundreds of millions of corpses decaying, anthropogenic global warming reduces by virtue of less "anthropo" to "genic" that carbon dioxide.
Problem solved.
It's Got What Plants Crave. It's Got Electrolytes!
Re:What could (Score:5, Funny)
when I stuck my tongue out when it rained, I didn't taste any salt at all,
If I was choosing my nick again I would be the RTFT-TROLL (yes; that loud)
Here it is; the article title again, but this time a bit marked up for those of you so bloody stupid you can't see it.
First when I joined this site, it was read the summary, then it's read the article... now it's read the title too? Screw this, I'm leaving this site. I was more than content to just pick a word or three (changing a few) to base my wild speculation on (such as "Gates Salt(ing) Clouds")
cloud computing... (Score:3, Funny)
Re:What could (Score:2, Funny)
I suggest you read more about the idea before rejecting it.
This is Slashdot. We read a summary based on a mainstream article based on a blog based on a scientific article about something which is going to be researched. When then whip out our highschool physics and make inane comments about potential problems even an 8 year old could see and expect a +5 insightful for doing so.