From: Chuck Kuecker (ckuecker@ckent.org)
Date: Fri Dec 21 2001 - 07:29:53 MST
At 08:27 PM 12/20/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Emlyn O'regan wrote:
>
> > Hey, there's a good solution to global warming. Get everyone out with
> > buckets of white paint, painting ALL the roads white! Maybe need center
> > lines in black?
> >
> > Would that actually work? Emlyn
>
>It would perhaps work at making it harder to drive. Roads are black
>for a good reason.
>
>If we decide that a warmer planet really *is* a problem (sounds
>like a solution to me) then there are ways of increasing the earth's
>albedo. We could remove the forest land and replace it with
>something more reflective, such as pretty much anything besides
>asphalt. spike
I don't think the fact that asphalt is black has anything to do with
traction - concrete works just fine, and is certainly not black...
What ever happened to the idea of putting screens in orbit to shut off a
portion of the sun's contribution?
Chuck Kuecker
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