Sentences with phrase «giant mirrors into»
From snatching carbon dioxide (CO2) out of the air like trees do, to launching giant mirrors into space, scientists are researching a wide variety of technologies to artificially slow global warming.
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To fit inside its rocket, the JWST's 6.5 - metre - high reflector, six times larger than Hubble's, is folded into 18 hexagonal pieces, which will assemble to function as a single giant mirror once the telescope is in orbit.
Speaking to his ability to conjure new and more incredible works, Altmejd helped inaugurate the newly designed Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver with a mirrored installation of six colossal giants only six months after turning the notoriously challenging space of the Canadian pavilion into a jewel - like aviary.
His larger installation in the back gallery invites the viewer to step into giant half rings which employs vast mirrors to create the semblance of infinite looping hoops.
The final SRM technology discussed by scientists involves sending a giant mirror — or fleet of mirrors — into orbit in order to reflect away more sunlight from the Earth.
The thrust of Becker's piece is that the planet might be screwed, but that efforts to mitigate global warming through geo - engineering — giant mirrors in space, the injection of aerosols into the atmosphere, carbon sequestration, seeding oceans with iron oxide, and that sort of thing — are unethical and impractical.
They range from mimicking the effects of large volcanic eruptions by releasing sulphur dioxide into the atmosphere, to deploying giant mirrors in space to deflect the sun's rays.
For techo - fix fetishists the idea of using geo - engineering solutions to mitigate the effects of global warming sounds wonderful: Dump iron fillings into the ocean, erect giant mirrors in space, dump limestone in the ocean.
Placing giant mirrors in orbit to reflect sunlight before it reaches Earth and launching millions of tons of sulfur into the stratosphere to simulate the effects of a major volcanic eruption are among the mind - boggling climate...