From: Colin Hales (colin@versalog.com.au)
Date: Thu Apr 11 2002 - 23:51:38 MDT
> the deserts of the Middle East. Oh, wait.
>
> Damien Broderick
>
Yeah, they need more political clout.....not! They hand us the oil to screw
up the air with and then charge us to clean up the air? What a deal!!!
I was actually thinking mid WA, around Wiluna. I bet the CSIRO could provide
air remix stats for points east of there (where there is serious nothing -
I know - I lived out there once)that would calm the skeptic (+ put CO2
monitoring at misc weather stations and use it to to closed loop control of
the reaction rates based on a weather model).
If you could set it up as a prototype that allowed it to produce the raw
materials to construct more of itself, then you could kind of 'grow it', one
truckload of quicklime at a time over years. After all, most of it would be
a 3D system of fluid channels - yes? A nice fractal layout could put a
delivery/receival node in a nice single central location and allow control
of flow rates throught the system. Put in a gas link to the NW shelf
oilfields for the re-processing or dual it an put CO2 in there an back feed
reserves to ships or whatever......seems plausible.
I'd love someone to pay me to do a feasibility study....any offers out
there???? I'm cheap? anybody...? ...oh, well.
Colin Hales
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