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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Robert G. Watts
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
520 pages
18h 5m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
463Climate Engineering: Impact Reducer or Suffering Inducer?
of using agricultural waste to make and then bury biochar versus
using the agricultural waste to displace use of fossil fuels?
2. To signicantly reduce the problem of forward scattering by sulfate
aerosols injected into the stratosphere, Dr. Edward Teller (Teller
etal. 1997, 2002) proposed instead using particles or balloons dim-
pled with corner reectors that would backscatter incident radiation.
Assuming hydrogen-lled Mylar balloons of 1-m diameter oating
freely in the stratosphere, how many balloons would be needed
to counterbalance the radiative trapping of a CO
2
doubling
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