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reply posted on 26-1-2012 @ 03:30 PM by mojo2012
Originally posted by davespanners
I think you may be slightly underestimating the immensity of natural disasters.
For example heres part of a description of the Tambora, Sumbawa, Volcano in Java (1815, April 5)

As many as 12,000 people perished in the initial blast, while more than 82,000 lives were taken subsequent famine and disease. The volcano also emitted about 170 billion tons of ash and debris in the atmosphere in a cloud so dense that it darkened islands 300 miles away for three days


So sucking it up with a plane would be a little like trying to soak up a Tsunami with a bath sponge.

Although they did stop that BP oil spill with a metal top hat so.... I guess theres hope

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The plane/helicopter type aircraft would only need to get the tube into position and hold it in the cloud. Again this is a barebones idea. Im not really sure how much a 2 mile or so tube of graphene would weight. I guess i need to get an idea of how much graphene weighs and calculate the surface area of different diameter cyclinder tubes to figure out their masses to see if only one aircraft is needed or figure out ideas on how to distribute weight via extra aircraft or some other means.

I wish i knew some more characteristics of volcanic ash and the gases involved(pertaining to temperature and if temperature is the factor that causes the gas to rise along with the ash). If the gas/ash would still float for a while once sucked up in the balloon type container then all you would need to do is have several balloons floating around but then they might land on people. Or a ground based containment system could be devised if you could cool the gases down to an acceptable temperature.


reply posted on 27-1-2012 @ 08:06 AM by wmd_2008
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If it was as simple as that do you not think they would have already said that would be done, lets hope the bag doesn't burst you would need one hell of a brush and dust pan for a few billion tons!
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reply posted on 27-1-2012 @ 08:09 AM by Flavian
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I like your thinking, even if it is flawed!

Even if you could get the plane up there, it would need to be mega city sized to make even the slightest indent on the ash cloud.

However, nothing gets done without a bit of lateral thinking so S & F anyway
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