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Personally I think we should start considering seeding the upper atmosphere with reflecting particles to reflect some of the sun's energy. <...>
We've been considering a solar/crank emergency radio.
How do you like yours?
I like my radio OK. It an Epica brand and it'll run on solar, crank and cells. I've made sure all my AA and AAA rechargeable cells are charged.
The way I see the problem with seeding the clouds, although I think it would work fine, is that there is no way to make a profit from that, and corporate world will not do anything if it won't make the stock go up.
But there things we can do. Here are a few:
- Paint our roofs white. That would reflect more than seeding the clouds would do, but nobody seems to care (I did mine)
- Get rid of those gas-guzzling 1.5 to 2.5-ton, 4-door pickup trucks that haul nothing heavier than a week's worth of groceries
- Quit mowing the lawn, as 10% of the carbon in the air comes from mowers. I planted shade trees, and put ferns under them, and re-wilded a meadow in the back 1/4 acre of my 1/2 acre lot.
- Plant trees. I put about 30 native trees, plus a couple of established, non-invasive exotics on my half acre 30 years ago
- Hang your laundry outdoors. Why use energy to dry clothes when the sun will do it and sterilize them at the same time.
- Quit using air conditioners. The AC uses energy which comes from the grid. That pollutes the air making the world hotter, which means you need to make the AC work harder which uses energy from the grid, that pollutes the air, making the world even hotter, which makes the AC works hotter etc., etc., etc.
- Drive like you are in the historic Mobil economy run. By slow acceleration and coasting as much as I can before using the brakes, I get 100 more miles per tankful than my car is rated for.
- Consume less. Know the difference between need and want
There is plenty more we can do, but that's a good start.
Ian is drifting again, and now they are predicting 70-80 mph winds where I live. So tonight I'll drop the rest of the storm awnings. I'd guess tomorrow afternoon's outdoor gig is cancelled. That'll cost me money,
and probably Thursday's as well.
And when the storm is over, cleanup will be a necessary PITA.
But there is nothing we can do except deal with it. We could curse mother nature all we want and it won't change anything.
Good luck to all in the path. After you prepare, the rest is luck.
Of all the natural disasters, tornadoes, landslides, tsunamis, earthquakes, avalanches, floods, dust storms, I'll take hurricanes. We know when they are coming, and if we know how to prepare it's survivable unless you are extremely unlucky.
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