Geoengineering

Engineers have proposed numerous schemes that might modify Earth's climate if all else fails.

A proposed cloud-seeding ship with Flettner rotors that spin about their vertical axis and act as powerful computer-controlled sails. Seawater sprays from the tops of the rotors to seed clouds.

©John MacNeil Illustration


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