Ebook: Macro-Engineering: A Challenge for the Future
- Tags: Environmental Management, Engineering general, Popular Science in Nature and Environment
- Series: Water Science and Technology Library 54
- Year: 2006
- Publisher: Springer Netherlands
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Macro-engineering involves the large-scale modification and manipulation of natural systems for the benefit of mankind. The primary goals of some Earth-based macroprojects described in this book are power production, land reclamation, food production, climate change, environment, water, transport and coastal protection. Other Earth or space projects considered here have a more futuristic ring, but our present-day technical skill makes their realization possible. Earth-based macroprojects usually combine different aspects and aims. They have a major impact on the ecology of a region and the inhabitants' means of living (like tourism, fishing, shipping). Its effects may be felt worldwide, like the rise in global sea level after the damming and evaporation of large ocean gulfs for power production, or the change in climate following the regional reduction of solar insolation.
Audience: This book will be of interest to researchers involved in macroprojects and students of Natural Sciences and Engineering.
Macro-engineering involves the large-scale modification and manipulation of natural systems for the benefit of mankind. The primary goals of some Earth-based macroprojects described in this book are power production, land reclamation, food production, climate change, environment, water, transport and coastal protection. Other Earth or space projects considered here have a more futuristic ring, but our present-day technical skill makes their realization possible. Earth-based macroprojects usually combine different aspects and aims. They have a major impact on the ecology of a region and the inhabitants' means of living (like tourism, fishing, shipping). Its effects may be felt worldwide, like the rise in global sea level after the damming and evaporation of large ocean gulfs for power production, or the change in climate following the regional reduction of solar insolation.
Audience: This book will be of interest to researchers involved in macroprojects and students of Natural Sciences and Engineering.
Macro-engineering involves the large-scale modification and manipulation of natural systems for the benefit of mankind. The primary goals of some Earth-based macroprojects described in this book are power production, land reclamation, food production, climate change, environment, water, transport and coastal protection. Other Earth or space projects considered here have a more futuristic ring, but our present-day technical skill makes their realization possible. Earth-based macroprojects usually combine different aspects and aims. They have a major impact on the ecology of a region and the inhabitants' means of living (like tourism, fishing, shipping). Its effects may be felt worldwide, like the rise in global sea level after the damming and evaporation of large ocean gulfs for power production, or the change in climate following the regional reduction of solar insolation.
Audience: This book will be of interest to researchers involved in macroprojects and students of Natural Sciences and Engineering.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-VII
Geo-Engineering and Energy Production in the 21st Century....Pages 5-20
Mineral Sequestration of CO2 and Recovery of the Heat of Reaction....Pages 21-29
Large-scale concentrating solar power (CSP) technology....Pages 31-44
Wind parks, mariculture, nutrients from organic waste streams, CO2 sequestration: A fruitful combination?....Pages 45-51
A Macro-project to Reduce Hurricane Intensity and slow Global Sea Level Rise....Pages 53-63
Mitigation of Anthropogenic Climate Change Via a Macro-Engineering Scheme: Climate Modeling Results....Pages 65-86
A Dual Use for Space Solar Power....Pages 87-120
Space Towers....Pages 121-149
Extreme Climate Control Membrane Structures....Pages 151-174
Cable Anti-Gravitator, Electrostatic Levitation and Artificial Gravity....Pages 175-213
Planetary Macro-Engineering Using Orbiting Solar Reflectors....Pages 215-250
Stellar Engines and the Controlled Movement of the Sun....Pages 251-279
Macro-Engineering in the Galactic Context....Pages 281-300
Back Matter....Pages 301-316
Macro-engineering involves the large-scale modification and manipulation of natural systems for the benefit of mankind. The primary goals of some Earth-based macroprojects described in this book are power production, land reclamation, food production, climate change, environment, water, transport and coastal protection. Other Earth or space projects considered here have a more futuristic ring, but our present-day technical skill makes their realization possible. Earth-based macroprojects usually combine different aspects and aims. They have a major impact on the ecology of a region and the inhabitants' means of living (like tourism, fishing, shipping). Its effects may be felt worldwide, like the rise in global sea level after the damming and evaporation of large ocean gulfs for power production, or the change in climate following the regional reduction of solar insolation.
Audience: This book will be of interest to researchers involved in macroprojects and students of Natural Sciences and Engineering.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-VII
Geo-Engineering and Energy Production in the 21st Century....Pages 5-20
Mineral Sequestration of CO2 and Recovery of the Heat of Reaction....Pages 21-29
Large-scale concentrating solar power (CSP) technology....Pages 31-44
Wind parks, mariculture, nutrients from organic waste streams, CO2 sequestration: A fruitful combination?....Pages 45-51
A Macro-project to Reduce Hurricane Intensity and slow Global Sea Level Rise....Pages 53-63
Mitigation of Anthropogenic Climate Change Via a Macro-Engineering Scheme: Climate Modeling Results....Pages 65-86
A Dual Use for Space Solar Power....Pages 87-120
Space Towers....Pages 121-149
Extreme Climate Control Membrane Structures....Pages 151-174
Cable Anti-Gravitator, Electrostatic Levitation and Artificial Gravity....Pages 175-213
Planetary Macro-Engineering Using Orbiting Solar Reflectors....Pages 215-250
Stellar Engines and the Controlled Movement of the Sun....Pages 251-279
Macro-Engineering in the Galactic Context....Pages 281-300
Back Matter....Pages 301-316
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