Saving The Desert And the Shores at the Same Time While Cooling the Earth..

Each year more and more land is being converted to desert, caused by either global warming, increased agriculture near the deserts, or both. This month in Popular Science July 2010, Architect Magnus Larsson speaks of building a solid sand wall solidified by a common type of bacteria found in marshes and bogs except around the side of the Sahara, in a process already used to stabilize zones to make buildings more earthquake proof.. Trees around the top and rooms dug in to make the wall a giant 4000 mile long pueblo ("city" in Spanish). In the lab the bacterium Bacillus pasteurii can solidify 32 feet of wall in just a few hours. The author of this plan says the main problem is it's high rent.
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If the advance of the desert is caused by global warming more than agriculture and global warming itself in my belief is actually not caused by greenhouse gasses, reducing the greenhouse may not be the way to improve the deserts for agriculture As I say here, the suns heat by observations is at an all time high and greenhouse gases like nitrogen or water long ago would have caused a runaway greenhouse effect on the earth if they were the cause (e.g in the Mesozoic when huge volcanic eruptions with CO2 and water scarcely changed the dinosaur's evolution.).There is plenty more on the page in favor of solar global warning, and ways we can definitely prove if so.


What if the cause of the deserts advance is heat? One way to cool the earth as others say and as I improve on my site about Weather Control is by a large shield or as I propose a magnetic bubble may be a lot cheaper to focus the sun's heat both more to the poles while cooling the tropics. The bubble is powered by the sun itself for the most and smaller and easier to launch, and much cheaper than the shade which would be thin and would have to be 600 miles in width. Other plans for weather control are listed on my site, including using dust to slow hurricanes (they've been found to be more common where there's less dust) or even throwing in icebergs to stop the heat flow of the storms.
　
One problem with using shields or bubbles is more people will want the good weather and this may make the use of the bubbles or shields more of interest to heat the polar lands which in the North are the size of the continental United States a vast realm a lot of people may want to live in if it were in reach of the good weather. Atarctica too has 17% of the land area of the world.

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If the sun is actually perhaps entering an interglacial age like the vast times between the ice ages of the Archeozoic and the Mesozoic and the Mesozoic and the Pleistocene it may continue to burn warmer though no more, melting the caps. If for some reason the shield or other plans are not viable or within our reach yet (right now!) one plan to both save the cities like London Paris and New York from flooding caused by the rising of the seas with the melting ice caps, cooling the earth in the tropics and reclaiming all the desert for use might be...

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...to pump the water from the rising seas to the desert by a rising spray of giant sprinklers. To remove the salt and other minerals from the water before use, centrifugal stills combined in with the pumps would also extract valuable minerals from the water, e.g. it's estimated the ocean's waters contain 10 trillion tons of gold. There have been plans to use airships to fight fires that carry a lot of water to the sight, but complete control of the desert would be a much larger plan. Obviously this would take large pumps and a lot of power. By spraying the water at high altitude more of the land would be with rain than just by pipes, this would need less capital to build. By spraying the water fast it would be converted to steam and would stay in the air longer and reach further.


I believe fusion power may be near as in my own idea of Inertial Focus Fusion (Click Here) to power the pumps.

To save the coastal cities and the people who would like the new land in the desert like agricultural business would be willing to pay for this plan, this would be another way to pay for the way to save our shores and deserts even with power of more common type. 3/4ths of the world's people live by the sea and they would want to save their beach cottage by the boat house where the ships are to shore.. A lot more desert would be saved than by just the wall to stop it's advance, and a lot more people might be willing to save thier shore, and ocean front land in AZ would be a realtor's! AZ has lots of culture and visits by great operas, rock and roll!
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While we could move some of the water to the desert, the desert wouldn't allow all the water, if all the icecaps melted the rise in worldwide sea-level would be 160 feet, and the oceans have 3/4 of the world's area, of the 1/4 that is land, 1/5 is desert of dryness or about 1/20th of the total area. It would seem to have a place to put the water when or if the caps melt we might have to put 20 times 160 feet of water just on the deserts or 3,200 feet of water more than enough to bring life to the deserts no doubt, and the land absorbs much of the water being absorbent.


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.Though we might pump the water to the deserts as the water rises, say a foot more for a foot higher of sea level rise and this would work up to a point, even so the desert will hold no more than saturation, and beyond this no matter how much more we put in the agriculture or other boost to the desert, the rest of the water would just flow out to the sea and the overall sea level would rise beyond that level. We couldn't just use the water for e.g.other agriculture use at least if all the ice melted of the caps because the total land area covered with the 160 feet of water being 1/4 would be 160 times 3 or 480 feet of water to go somewhere around!
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Thus while it may be good for some real improvement of the desert and also to boost global cooling if the ice caps don't completely melt, ect. it they do melt instead a cheap solution may be move the water to higher realms.
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How To Save Coastal Cities
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A small tube with a chemical siphon or pumps of other types to orbit, much cheaper than pumping the water to the desert (even though we could do both.). The centrifugal force of the tube would much boost the flow outward where it becomes atomized and moves away from the earth. Other ways to cheaply boost the flow might be by ionization of the outside wire of the tubes to generate a force to move the ionized water up the tube. The Siphon is simple so it might be easy to build with self assembling machines. It would generate electricity as an added boost as the wires or tubes moved through the solar wind.

The siphon's more involved use might be to not just save cities like London or New York as the sea level would be maintained, beyond saving the coastal cities it might also be used to reclaim the contenental shelves by lowering sea level. This may be mostly ecologically sound because in the ice ages this has sometimes happened and the ecology has done well. It might seem of worth to save the water in orbit for future reuse in something like giant spheres in case the ice caps then refreeze later. There are several considerations. The cost of the outer spheres to shield the ice which the water would freeze to giant size would need.shielding from the radiataion to essentially not become radioactive from the high energy rays from the sun. Though this would seem to take a lot of shielding the outer layer of the ice itself might make a good enough shield, as dense in shielding as the five miles of air above us because it's more dense, saving a lot on cost. It would need to always spin so the water would stay frozen. To boost it to orbit to the giant water worlds above the siphon's electric power could move small lightweight or C clamp containers to hold the water with each launch, the washers won't contact the wire so no force to strain the wire would be used so it would be cheap. The "washers" would launch from the wire to the sphere where the water would be removed and dropped down to Earth to be reused saving a lot on the cost of the numbers of them needed to lower the ocean much or as the icecaps melt. Saving the water would be expensive even with this method mostly because of the cost of the outside of the sphere, if so ice could be used to make a giant comet above, beer goes wild! (They've claimed the worlds most powerful beer in Europe. What beer arm wrestles? We're more powerful than the most powerful beer!) If ice were used the only cost would seem to be the wire, the washers and some way to start the spheres in spinning and some way to make sure the ice won't melt (like a shade). All the power to launch is from the wire so it would pay for itself by the power it would generate ploughing through the field at high speed. And indeed the wire being cheap can be used for other types of cheap no cost launches if the payloads are not big. These small payloads could be used to combine to assemble larger machiens in orbit in modular form. I believe a tower like the older sci fi elevator to hi fi orbit would be so heavy and cost so much it would be much cheaper and safer to use this method, even a piece of paint could easily bring down the 20th century type elevator, it would be the largest construct ever built by man more than the Great Wall of china if built as envisioned by the 20th century engineers. A narrow wire tower with narrow cross section and no cost would be optimal with the means at hand and with reduced political risk.
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Raising or lowering sea level is just one of a multitude of uses these wires would have. If the sea level was lowered by the siphon not inconcievably we could reclaim any amount of land from the ocean up to the amount of water removed at the limit that would much change the world's weather. The water keeps the heat constant but the amount that would much change the temperatures would be more than just the small amount removed to allow us to live and work on the contenental shelves, e.g. for archeology for treasures or drilling more safely "offshore". As overpopulation increases reclaiming the land now offshore with the wires may save million of lives in our world of 2579 AD. The impact to the ecology may not be more than somewhat; most marine life lives within 5 miles of the shore. So if it were moved 50 miles the sea life would presumably adjust by the same adaptations they used in the pliestocene to move with the change in the shoreline then. For now with global warming life in evolution is just adapting like we do when we live in the tropics or the north, as in herbal health science evolution has a large number of general tricks to adapt. The interglacial and ice ages ages had hippopatamouses as far N and england and Moose as far S as S Europe so lowering sea level just to the limit of the contenental shelves would be safe for the environment .


The wires would be a giant solar collector of vast size for the same cost as solar panels in orbit, but much cheaper and simple to operate powered by both the rotation of the earth and the solar field. During thunderstorms these could even collect lightening or more generally draining off the trickle of charge before it builds up like a lightening rod. If the air has a voltage of about 270 volts and it mostly cancels so we can't feel it, other influence may be of worth.
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Using Magnetic Bubbles To Control Weather, and For Other Uses
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We read about the use of magnetic bubbles for exploration of the solar system, a solar sail that is powered by the heat of the solar wind to move outward like by a usual sail, except by radiation pressure for the "starship".


I've thought of some other uses for magnetic bubbles, they could be used to make a giant lense of huge size to see distant earthlike worlds or as I say on this page we might use the magnetic field of Jupiter as a lense "as is" with no field to maintain with our machines other than the satellites around Jupiter that would relay the focus from ship to ship to see one field only.
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We see on other sites that magnetic bubbles alone don't bend light, they only change the frequency not the refraction. Obviously if radiation pressure interacts with the bubble it must change it some way like this. Even so there is heat here in the summer and a bus headed my way to jog in the velodrome! To make a giant lense and for other uses, the solution as the sites like Wikapedia say about refraction caused by by electric or magnetic fields may be that magnetic fields have refraction when nonlinear medium is used, like a field with matter like atoms and electric charges. All materials have this type of refraction including gases, so Jupiter may make the best magnetic bubble telescope for many years because it has a plasma round it that may have enough refraction to make a good telescope cheaper. To make the larger telescopes we might fill the magnetic bubble with air of some type, and it's refractive index would be higher without too much loss of the air.


Other uses of magnetic or electromagnetic bubbles may be for weather control and power generation. Because a bubble above and around a city would hold in more static air which would be easier to heat in the winter and melt the snow, if the lense of the bubble also focuses more of the heat to the smaller central area of the city by control of its angle to the sun, cities in the N or entire areas of the country might be warm year round like for agriculture and also at cheap cost because the field also is like a great solar collector to power the field.
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This might mean the huge zone the size of the US to the North and even antarctica might eventually be with as many people as are in other areas like Europe or Asia now. If the sea level may rise either because of this or global warming, here's my post about how we could keep sea levels the same by use of a small siphon to orbit, powered by osmosis, centrifugal force, or ionization to atomize and move the extra water away and save the coastal cities.


Magnetic bubbles might be used for power too. In the heat the large bubble like a giant lense would focus the heat on machine to collect the solar power. This would be much cheaper to build than many solar collectors.

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