January 2, 2022
Climate Crisis Solutions - Climate Genn Podcast
"With global agriculture across the world at high risk from rising temperatures and associated impacts, Ye’s team are proposing increasing the Earth’s reflectivity in order to reduce the temperature within the biosphere.
In this interview we go into some detail about how it works, resource requirements, where it would be deployed and the pathway to scaling up.
Social response is critical Ye also highlights the need for more understanding of psychology in order to be able to align the growing numbers of people around the world who are realising that our future is in a perilous state."
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Fastening Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) to Solar Reflectors
After watching a youtube video in which plastic bottles were converted to rope, Adam Lee wondered if this process could be useful for the production of solar reflectors. Could this waste be repurposed at scale without the use of fossil fuel energy?
July 12, 2022
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