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    Geoengineering techniques aim to counteract the effects of global warming by deliberately modifying planetary systems. While controversial historically due to military applications during the Cold War, geoengineering is gaining attention again due to the failure of carbon abatement strategies and the need to act on climate change. This presentation examines space-based geoengineering techniques like installing sunshades in space and solar power satellites, which represent significant upfront costs but have advantages over ground-based methods by avoiding many ethical issues.

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    Geoengineering techniques aim to counteract the effects of global warming by deliberately modifying planetary systems. While controversial historically due to military applications during the Cold War, geoengineering is gaining attention again due to the failure of carbon abatement strategies and the need to act on climate change. This presentation examines space-based geoengineering techniques like installing sunshades in space and solar power satellites, which represent significant upfront costs but have advantages over ground-based methods by avoiding many ethical issues.

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    Geoengineering From Space: Is It The Best Solution?: Presented By: Axel Bergman International Space University

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    Geoengineering techniques aim to counteract the effects of global warming by deliberately modifying planetary systems. While controversial historically due to military applications during the Cold War, geoengineering is gaining attention again due to the failure of carbon abatement strategies and the need to act on climate change. This presentation examines space-based geoengineering techniques like installing sunshades in space and solar power satellites, which represent significant upfront costs but have advantages over ground-based methods by avoiding many ethical issues.

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    (Robock 2008)

    Geoengineering From Space: Is it the best solution?


    Presented by: Axel Bergman International Space University

    Definition
    Geoengineering is a deliberate, planetary scale environmental engineering to counter act the effects of global warming.

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    Why so controversial?..
    Historical context: Started with USSR in the mid 1930s Leningrad Institute of Rainmaking Cold war race to control weather Term was first used to describe dumping industrial waste deep in the deep ocean during the mid 1970s

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    ...but its coming back!


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    Anthropogenic Climate Modification

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    Typical scenarios...

    Biochar

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    Sun Shades in Space

    Navigation

    L1 point
    Sun Shades
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    Solar Power Satellites


    Panels about 10km2

    Ionosphere

    Pilot Signal Transmitter Ground Rectenna 4 to 10Km radius


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    Sasakis Model

    (Sasaki, 2006)
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    How to build it

    (Sasaki, 2006)
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    The Incredible Economics


    Cost of climate change: $2.5 B/year for US Stern Report: Economies shrink by 26% Injecting reflective particles: $1 B/year
    Amounts to pennies per ton of CO2

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    Ranking Scheme

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    So what about Satellites?


    It all depends on cheap and reliable access to space Currently only 10 times too expensive

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    Ethics of geoengineering
    Would it undermine carbon abatement? Who decides? What are the unintended impacts? How much compensation are we willing to invest? Space solutions are attractive in that they circumvent many of these issues
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    Summary
    We are starting to understand the problem and the danger..not too late to act. Failure of abatement strategies are forcing us to pull out geoengineering back out of the closet Space Solutions represent an incredible upfront investment but present salient advantages
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    END

    Figure taken from:SPARC 2006 Assessment of stratospheric aerosol properties (ASAP). Technical report WCRP-124/WMO/TD-No. 1295/SPARC report no. 4, SPARC, Toronto, Ontario, International Space Axel Bergman March 2009 CA, pp. 322. University

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