{"id":347414,"date":"2019-03-05T10:00:43","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T04:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-256057-797351.cloudwaysapps.com\/?p=347414"},"modified":"2019-03-05T19:09:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T13:39:21","slug":"biggest-geo-engineering-projects-conducted-so-far","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/science\/biggest-geo-engineering-projects-conducted-so-far\/","title":{"rendered":"These are The Geoengineering Projects Planned To Fix Earth Using Science"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Geoengineering projects are designed to mitigate the negative effects of climate change. Even though large-scale geoengineering projects are still at the conception stage, supporters claim that it may sooner or later become crucial to evade the most awful effects of climate change. Here are a few existing and possible geoengineering projects that might give some real results in the long run:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Ca<strong>rbon-sucking fans<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Carbon-Sucking-Fans-To-Save-Earth.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Carbon-sucking fans\" class=\"wp-image-347416 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Carbon-Sucking-Fans-To-Save-Earth.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Carbon-Sucking-Fans-To-Save-Earth-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Carbon-Sucking-Fans-To-Save-Earth-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Carbon-Sucking-Fans-To-Save-Earth-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1280px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1280\/720;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Carbon-Sucking-Fans-To-Save-Earth.jpg?fit=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Carbon-sucking fans\" class=\"wp-image-347416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Carbon-Sucking-Fans-To-Save-Earth.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Carbon-Sucking-Fans-To-Save-Earth-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Carbon-Sucking-Fans-To-Save-Earth-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Carbon-Sucking-Fans-To-Save-Earth-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Climeworks, a company based in Switzerland, has employed massive\nfans that draw carbon out\nfrom the air, and then they use the carbon for\ngrowing vegetables in a nearby garden. Their estimation is that it will suck\naround 900 tons of carbon out of the air every year, at a rate of about $600\nper ton. Some say that it\u2019s too costly, even more, expensive as compared to the\nultra-expensive technologies for capturing the carbon from the exhaust of\nfossil fuel plants. Yet the project\u2019s potential contribution towards\nimproving the atmosphere cannot be ignored, which makes it a worthwhile\ninvestment, despite its cost.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>2. Solar <\/strong>Geoeng<strong>ineering<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"673\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Solar-GeoEngineering.png?fit=1024%2C459&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Solar Geoengineering\" class=\"wp-image-347418 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Solar-GeoEngineering.png 1500w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Solar-GeoEngineering-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Solar-GeoEngineering-768x345.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Solar-GeoEngineering-1024x459.png 1024w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1500px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1500\/673;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1500\" height=\"673\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Solar-GeoEngineering.png?fit=1024%2C459&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"Solar Geoengineering\" class=\"wp-image-347418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Solar-GeoEngineering.png 1500w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Solar-GeoEngineering-300x135.png 300w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Solar-GeoEngineering-768x345.png 768w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Solar-GeoEngineering-1024x459.png 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Solar geoengineering comprises discharging aerosols into the\natmosphere that would redirect sunlight back into space, averting some part of\nsunlight from coming into Earth\u2019s atmosphere. The team is planning to launch an outdoor\nsky-modifying experiment in US during early spring 2019.&nbsp; They will send two balloons into the\nstratosphere with first balloon carrying ice to ensure the instruments are\nworking properly and the second balloon would be carrying calcium carbonate. It\nwould be releasing particles into a small part of the\nsky to help send the sun rays back into space. Based on present\nfindings, the benefits of solar geoengineering might outweigh any possible\ndrawbacks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>3. Feeding iron to\nphytoplankton<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"457\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-256057-797351.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Feeding-iron-to-phytoplankton.jpg\" alt=\"Feeding iron to phytoplankton\" class=\"wp-image-347419 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Feeding-iron-to-phytoplankton.jpg 457w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Feeding-iron-to-phytoplankton-300x236.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 457px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 457\/360;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"457\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-256057-797351.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Feeding-iron-to-phytoplankton.jpg\" alt=\"Feeding iron to phytoplankton\" class=\"wp-image-347419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Feeding-iron-to-phytoplankton.jpg 457w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Feeding-iron-to-phytoplankton-300x236.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 457px) 100vw, 457px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Phytoplankton, which is a microscopic organism that is almost\neverywhere in the earth\u2019s oceans, likes to eat iron. In addition, they also\ndraw carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere. Scientists have tested what putting\niron into the oceans can do to phytoplankton populaces, and, to what capacity\nit can reduce the amount of carbon in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Nature, there have already been about 13 main open\ntests of ocean fertilization, like dumping iron into the oceans since 1990. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>4. A giant wall to block\nwarm water<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Atlantic\u2019s warmer streams are melting the base of the glacier, and\nso the scientists have proposed erecting a wall about 100 m tall\nin front so as to stop the warm water from reaching the glacier. The wall would\nbe built with gravel and sand to create a non-natural embankment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>5. Artificial islands to\npin ice shelves<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"496\" height=\"400\" data-src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-256057-797351.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Pine-Island-and-Thwaites.jpg\" alt=\"Artificial islands to pin ice shelves near Pine Island and Thwaites\" class=\"wp-image-347420 lazyload\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Pine-Island-and-Thwaites.jpg 496w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Pine-Island-and-Thwaites-300x242.jpg 300w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 496px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 496\/400;\" \/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"496\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/wordpress-256057-797351.cloudwaysapps.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Pine-Island-and-Thwaites.jpg\" alt=\"Artificial islands to pin ice shelves near Pine Island and Thwaites\" class=\"wp-image-347420\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Pine-Island-and-Thwaites.jpg 496w, https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/Pine-Island-and-Thwaites-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 496px) 100vw, 496px\" \/><\/noscript><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>When glaciers slide into the sea, they make massive ice shelves. Warmer waters make these ice shelves thinner, and they might break off completely at some point, and thus, increasing sea level at a speedy rate. Mainly, there are two glaciers, Pine Island and Thwaites, in West Antarctica, that are the source of concerns for the scientists. As they continue to melt, they will become the largest sources of rising sea-level over the next two centuries. The scientists suggest shoring up ice shelves by building artificial islands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>6. Propelling or cooling\nwater underneath<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>As a glacier slips down the rock, it produces\nheat. This heat results in fast-flowing streams that go into the sea, making\nthe glacier move quicker. In Antarctica, streams can be rather shallow, and the\nscientists suggest to either pump out water or freeze it by flowing cooled\nwater underneath to slow down the glaciers. It might include building huge\npumping stations to circulate cooled brine underneath glaciers such as the Pine\nIsland glacier in Antarctica so as to stop their bases from melting and\nsliding into the sea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even though large-scale geoengineering projects are still at the conception stage, supporters claim that it may sooner or later become crucial to evade the most awful effects of climate change. Here are a few existing and possible geoengineering projects that might give some real results in the long run<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":347421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,16327],"tags":[381,218,10434,16400,16326],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347414"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=347414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/347414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/347421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=347414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=347414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyjag.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=347414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}