We are already geoengineering the planet by pumping CO2 into the atmosphere to raise the temperature and by cutting down and burning trillions of trees to make farmland plus a lot of other ways.
It’s a dangerous practise that could be going to bring a lot of problems for humanity but here is one that might help farmers and is something to think about.
It’s a dangerous practise that could be going to bring a lot of problems for humanity but here is one that might help farmers and is something to think about.
Australia is a country with a very flat and barren interior and I have often speculated what it would have been like If it had a range of mountains right down the middle, which would have created rain clouds to feed rivers and make the centre fertile and probably cooler.
Constructing a wall high enough to do the same thing as a mountain is not an option but we could use a different technology.
Constructing a wall high enough to do the same thing as a mountain is not an option but we could use a different technology.
The Spanish have been researching hot air thermal generators to make electricity and one of the side effects is that there has been noticed a downwind tear drop area of green growth. This is caused by the hot air rising from the chimney and pushing some moisture into the upper atmosphere where the moisture condenses and falls as rain.
If a line of big thermal chimneys were constructed and placed in a line down route A71 between Charleville and Bourke it would be close enough to the grid to take away the electricity and, in a farming region which is on the brink of productivity due to a lack of rainfall moisture, it could increase farming productivity substantially.
These chimneys are not wildly expensive to build and make cheap electricity but the real benefit would be to farming where even a small increase in rainfall would be a huge benefit. Instead of destroying farmland by digging coal, which is a diminishing energy source, and spending a billion dollars on a railway which would only be for coal movement the Queensland government would do better by looking at alternative investments.
It needs some research into its effect into the upper atmosphere but it could work.
These chimneys are not wildly expensive to build and make cheap electricity but the real benefit would be to farming where even a small increase in rainfall would be a huge benefit. Instead of destroying farmland by digging coal, which is a diminishing energy source, and spending a billion dollars on a railway which would only be for coal movement the Queensland government would do better by looking at alternative investments.
It needs some research into its effect into the upper atmosphere but it could work.
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