METHOD FOR LOWERING GLOBAL TEMPERATURE

Abstract

The invention discloses a method for reducing the global temperature, comprising a barge, a belt conveyor and a water pump, characterized in that the following steps are taken: a) transporting a number of empty barges to a region covered with ice floes in the north and south poles, and then using belt conveyor to load the accumulated ice floes into the empty barge; b) drives the barge loaded with ice to the nearest desert country; c) builds more than one reservoir on the desert coast, and a number of artificial canals were built in the sluice of the reservoir; these canals run through the desert to form a hydraulic transport network; d) drain the melted ice water to the reservoir on the coast by gravity or a pump, and open the sluice; ice water flows into the canal, and trees or grass are planted on both banks of the canal.

Claims

1. A method for lowering global temperature, comprising barges, belt conveyors, and water pumps, wherein the following steps: a) a plurality of empty-loaded barges are shipped to the Arctic and Antarctic regions where ice floes are full of, said empty-loaded barges are loaded with the collected ice floes by belt conveyors; b) the barges full-loaded of ice will sail to the nearest the desert country/area C) on the seashores of said desert country/area, more than one reservoir is built with at least one sluice devised at its outlets, to which, a plurality artificial canals are built as a waterborne network to criss-cross the desert; d) the melted ice water, by its own gravity or water pump, is discharged to said reservoir on the seashore, and the sluice are simultaneously unlocked for the ice water flowing into the both embankments of canals for growing seedlings or grass.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, said barge has the minimum load of 100,000 Mt.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein, the annual amount of ice floes to be shipped by the barges are not less than 100 billion Mt.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein, said reservoir is preferably located on the topographical pinnacle of said desert seashore.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein, said artificial canals are composed of arterial ones navigable for a ship of minimum 1000 Mt load and the ramification ones navigable for a ship of minimum 100 Mt load.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein, the barges loaded with ice in the Antarctic region are bound for the seashore in Australian deserts, whereas the barges loaded with ice in the Arctic region for the seashore of the Sahara deserts.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein, the desert areas to be afforested are not less than 200,000 km.sup.2, preferably 100,000 km.sup.2 in Australia and 100,000 km.sup.2 in the northern Sahara.

Description

DESCRIPTION

[0044] The method is described as below:

[0045] A method for lowering global temperature, which comprises barges, belt conveyors, and water pumps, wherein the following steps are taken: a plurality of wind-power farms will be built in the Polar Regions in which are abound with plenty of ice floes. At the same time, a plurality of quays will be constructed with a plurality of belt conveyors installed nearby; each belt conveyor has the capacity for transferring ice rocks not less than 1000 Mt per hour. More than one seaport to be designed on the seashores of desert areas nearest to the Antarctic or the Arctic Greenland will be built with a reservoir in the proximity of the seaport; the reservoir capable holding at least 1 million m.sup.3 of water will be provided plus at least one sluice being built at its outlets, to which, a plurality artificial canals are built as a waterborne network to criss-cross the desert, said artificial canals are composed of arterial and ramification canals, wherein the arterial canals are navigable for a ship of at least 1000 Mt load, and the ramification canals a ship of at least 100 Mt load.

[0046] a plurality of empty-loaded barges are shipped to the Arctic and Antarctic regions which are full of ice floes, after said empty-loaded barges are loaded with the collected ice floes by belt conveyors, they will sail to the nearest the desert seaports as the Antarctic one to Australia and the Arctic one to Sarah, for example.

[0047] the melted ice water are drain to said reservoir on the seashore by its own gravity or pump, and the sluice are opened for the ice water flowing into the canals, upon both embankments of which, seedlings or grass suitable for the deserts will be grown, the eucalyptus is preferred to Australian desert whereas the Euphrates poplar to the Sahara desert.

[0048] Each barge carries a minimum load of 100,000 Mt ice, and the annual amount of ice floe to be shipped by the barges are not less than 100 billion tons, of which, no less than 40 billion Mt comes out of Antarctic region and no less than 60 billion Mt out of Arctic region. The seedlings to be planted each year in the northern and southern hemispheres will not be less than 200,000 km.sup.2, preferably 100,000 km.sup.2 for Australia and 100,000 km.sup.2 for the northern Sahara.

The Embodiment 1

[0049] Embodiment 1 is taken the Australian desert as an example.

[0050] First, in Antarctic region, a number of areas congregate with ice floes will be chosen as ice quarrying sites, in which pluralities of conveyor belts will be installed. The power driving the conveyor belts will comes from wind power generator as rich wind resources in the North and South poles regions are able to meet hundreds of wind turbines construction there.

[0051] The cracked ice floes floating around the edge of the Antarctic landmass will be towed by fishing nets towards and collectively stacked upon the ice-quarrying sites, each of which will be built with quays for wharfing large ice-carrying barges. The stacked-upon ice floes will be loaded on the ice-carrying barges by the conveyor belts. As soon as they are full-loaded, the barges will ship to the seashore ports of the Australian Desert nearest the Antarctic landmass. The robots will be employed for the most operation against the hard and harsh wintry weathers.

[0052] The preferable embodiment is exemplified below: in the seashores of said desert countries/areas are provided with more than one reservoir on the topographical pinnacle, also at least one sluice being built at the reservoir outlet, to which, a plurality artificial canals nearby the deserts are built as a waterborne networks to criss-cross the desert; furthermore, said artificial canals are composed of arterial and ramification canals, wherein the arterial canals are navigable for a ship of at least 1000 Mt load, and the ramification canals a ship of at least 100 Mt load.

[0053] Since most of the desert areas are very hot with the average temperature 30 C. plus, the ice from the dipolar regions will soon melt once delivered to the desert seashore ports, which will absorb plenty heat and lower the desert high temperature. The melting ice water will be, by either its own gravity or the water pumps, drained to the reservoir on the seashore. When the waterhead of the ice water in the reservoir are accumulated enough and discharged into the canal via the unlocked sluice, they will augment the quantities of the water reserved on both embankments of the canal for indigenous trees such as eucalyptus or Euphrates poplar.

[0054] The hack of infrastructure in the desert hinterlands makes the logistics of the conventional railway and highway unrealistic for afforesting deserts, even if feasible, the investment is not only substantially huge, but there is a prolific, potential risks of the built-up railways and highways will be buried by the drifting sand dunes within a few years.

[0055] Therefore, the logistic in the desert shall be principal plied by the water transportation between the artificial canals. There is no relocation cost for residents in desert areas thanks to their nearly uninhabited. Beside the huge amount of ice water play a cheap navigation role for these canals, their evaporation can significantly ameliorate the microclimate in the both embankments and surroundings. The water seeping into the vicinity of the canal embankments, will not only replenish increasingly depleted groundwater resources, but keep stable supplies for rapid growing of the vegetation of eucalyptus and Euphrates poplar on the embankment, and the root system of these vegetation will gradually fix the drilling sand dunes, improving the desert structure. The canal in desert areas is a protective lifeline of water for the nearby precinct residents and new immigrant workers to live and work like reforesting and growing fruits and vegetables. In addition, at sonic nodes of the canal, a plurality of large artificial lakes can be built for desert-sightseeing and aquaculture as a cash cow.

Embodiment 2

[0056] The same method as in embodiment 1 will be carried out, except that the ice floes are shipped from the Arctic/Greenland to the Sahara Desert in the northern hemisphere, and the seedlings to be planted are Euphrates populars.

[0057] The beneficial effects or the invention are:

[0058] the large amount of melting ice will rapidly lower global temperatures by absorbing large amount of heat in the arid desert, and shipping 100 billion Mt per annum can reduce sea level by 0.3 mm, in avoidance of drastic fluctuation in ocean temperature gradients and the consequent superstorms.

[0059] Plenty and pure fresh water is provided for the deserts lack of rainfalls. If the 0.5 m thickness water per m.sup.2 is annually supplied for afforesting, the 100 billion Mt shipping will afforest 200,000 km.sup.2 desert, and 10 million km.sup.2 for consecutive 50 years. Plenty evaporated fresh water can completely transform the arid desert climate; in combination with green vegetation absorbing a large amount of CO.sub.2. 8 billion Mt CO.sub.2 emission per year will be absorbed completely within 5 years. The afforested desert will be colonized by hundreds of millions of people, which will alleviate the land and environmental pressures due to overpopulation, creating a myriad job opportunities.

[0060] Finally, the impact of such projects on the Arctic and the Antarctic environment is assessed: what the ice-carrying barges collect and convey are the ice that has already melted or is in imminent melting, it will not disrupt the balance of the water circulation in the north and south poles without side-effects; furthermore, the power to drive the ice-carrying barges can use clean energy such as magneto-dynamic or cold fusion, avoiding the conventional exhausting heat and greenhouse gas emissions from the prior art of petrochemical energy, such the impact of pollution on the ocean is negligible. At the same time, the popular employment of drones and intelligent robots will replace manual operations, reducing the most of pollution caused by overstaff on the Polar Regions, e.g. 20,000 barges will just need 100,000 people with an average of 5 crews onboard each.

[0061] the electrical power demanding for the belt conveyor is calculated as below, given the 1000 Mt ice per hour is processed (300 days per year) for the annual 100 billion Mt ice floes transferring, the number of belt conveyors:

100 billion tons=1000*10000*10000Mt

1000*10000*10000Mt/(300*24*1000Mt)

=10000*10000/300*24

=10000*100/3*24=14000 units.

[0062] The north and south poles need 7,000 belt conveyors respectively. The power for each belt conveyor is 40 kw. The rating power per wind turbines is 2000 kw, which translate that 7000 * 40 kw/2000 kw, i.e. 140 sets, which, in the either pole, can fully meet the power demanding for ice loading, unloading and conveying.

[0063] The forestation, irrigation and drainage and waterhead elevated sun-drenched desert area can be all done by the installed solar photovoltaic power, the latest technology will be reduce the cost of that to U$ 120/KW by 2019.

[0064] When the earth temperature returns to a normal historical level, ice transportation as such will by and large come to stop; however it must be conceded that exerting this effective plan shall not be disguised as an excuse for humanity to procrastinate a rapid reincarnation from the suicidal development model based-on fossil energy into the sustainable development one based-on pollution-free energy. For deserted area far from the seashore, the vacuum pipe can be used to transmit the ice water into the artificial canals of the desert for afforesting.

[0065] The above-mentioned ones are just preferred embodiments of this present invention, by which and without deviating from the principle of which, a plurality of modifications and variations can be made by the person skilled in the art, such modifications and variations should be also within the scope of protection meted by the claims of this invention.