Macro-Engineering A Challenge for the Future /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Badescu, Viorel (Editor), Cathcart, Richard B. (Editor), Schuiling, Roelof D. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2006.
• Series: Water Science and Technology Library, 54
• Subjects: Environment.; Nature.; Engineering.; Environmental management.; Environmental Management.; Engineering, general.; Popular Science in Nature and Environment.

Macro-engineering involves the large-scale modification and manipulation of natural systems for the benefit of mankind. The primary goals of some Earth-based macroprojects described in this book are power production, land reclamation, food production, climate change, environment, water, transport an...

Table of Contents:

• Geo-Engineering and Energy Production in the 21st Century
• Mineral Sequestration of CO2 and Recovery of the Heat of Reaction
• Large-scale concentrating solar power (CSP) technology
• Wind parks, mariculture, nutrients from organic waste streams, CO2 sequestration: A fruitful combination?
• A Macro-project to Reduce Hurricane Intensity and slow Global Sea Level Rise
• Mitigation of Anthropogenic Climate Change Via a Macro-Engineering Scheme: Climate Modeling Results
• A Dual Use for Space Solar Power
• Space Towers
• Extreme Climate Control Membrane Structures
• Cable Anti-Gravitator, Electrostatic Levitation and Artificial Gravity
• Planetary Macro-Engineering Using Orbiting Solar Reflectors
• Stellar Engines and the Controlled Movement of the Sun
• Macro-Engineering in the Galactic Context.