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Global Warming, Solved

ETS!,

While there are literally thousand of technologies to prevent the emission of carbon dioxide, there is literally no technology known that can remove CO2 in the atmosphere that is already there ... EXCEPT: HelioHydroElectric technology.

Few know this, but underneath the American West, Asia (Iran, Iraq), South Africa, and other desert areas is a huge salt/alkaline water geologic formation. This ocean of water is below sea level, and below fresh water aquifiers. To access, wells must be drilled literally a mile down.

By pumping this water to the surface, it can flood now dry salt lakes in deserts (like Libya, Algeria, or New Mexico). This salt water then is evaporated by sunlight, creating clouds and rainfall in nearby mountains ... thus increasing the amount of plants, to remove CO2.

These salt lakes, like Salt Lakes in Utah, are not entirely dead. They grow various microlife like algae, which can be harvested for cattle feed ... or, drum roll please, to make biodiesel fuel. This salt/alkaline water can also be electrolytically mined for gold, silver, manganese, steel and other metals. Solar and wind energy would be used to pump this ocean to the surface.

Worldwide there must be nearly 100,000 sites where this technology can be employed to reverse desertification--and most importantly, increase the amount of plant life, to remove CO2.

Worldwide we spend nearly one trillion dollars a year on military spending. The game plan: declare war on global warming. The game plan: to employ these militaries to build these HelioHydroElectric projects...within 10 years. It will be nice seeing these militaries do something useful for a change!

The only HelioHydroElectric project planned right now is for the Dead Sea. The plan is to pipe water downhill, generating electrical power, from the Red Sea. The additional ocean water on top of the Dead Sea will help increase local area rainfall, but more importantly solve the severe geologic problems created by the Dead Sea drying up. This is one of the few areas where Palestine, Israel and Jordan agree! Other sites exist in Eritrea, Egypt, and also Southern California, where ocean water can be piped downhill to areas below sea level for solar evaporation.

Literally, I am talking about a Tennessee Valley Authority project for the Sahara Desert (and the New Mexico, Arizona, Eastern Washington, Utah, and other dry desert states). The TVA was built to pull the USA out of a severe 1930s economic depression. HelioHydroElectric power could be history repeating itself...except it would be pulling an entire planet out of an economic depression.

I encourage people to write their congressmembers, and to study up on this technology. The solution to Global Warming has been found ... now let's do it!

--Martin Nix, Seattle