Original and new engineering solutions to the biggest real-world problems facing mankind today: How to fight natural disasters and diseases, how to produce clean energy on Earth, how to fend off dangers from outer space, and finally how to colonize outer space! Some are so simple that a bunch of kindergarten kids can deploy them, others can only be built by a superpower nation, but they are all within mankind's reach.
These are all my own inventions from the past year (my version of "annus mirabilis"), and I could patent them, but I choose not to. I don't want to get rich; I want to ensure the survival of humanity. I share my solutions with you for free here, so that you can share them with everyone you know. Eventually they will pass "up the chain" to the decision makers who can order their actual construction and save our collective ass!
Author(s): Nir Strulovitz
Year: 2019
Language: English
Pages: 67
Table of Contents
Preface 5
Chapter 1 – preventing human extinction by the lethal methane gas (a greenhouse gas which is 30 times more powerful than carbon dioxide) by raising floating balloons in order to build a huge mirror. 6
Chapter 2 - stopping of global thirst and desertification by producing desalinated water cheaply, by using the natural pressure of the sea depths to save energy in Desalination of Reverse Osmosis . 8
Chapter 3 – suffocating wildfires by catapulting dry ice (frozen CO2) blocks that were prepared with built in soap bubbles of CO2 (like "frozen yogurt blender" mixes frozen fruits inside). The bubbles cling to the forest trees so the CO2 doesn't disperse in the wind 11
Chapter 4 - stopping tropical cyclone storms (also known as: hurricane, typhoon) early when they start to form, by interfering with the chain of events that creates them. 13
Chapter 5 – protecting the rainforests by terraforming the Great Pacific garbage patch and also land swapping inspired by China's actions in Africa. 19
Chapter 6 – rescuing parts of the Great Barrier Reef from bleaching of corals by using hot mirrors that reflect the wavelength of heat (infra-red) and still allow corals to perform photosynthesis. 21
Chapter 7 – "Buy Buy Life" A mobile app that displays each product's: carbon, palm-oil, meat, and plastic - footprint. The app calculates the total environmental price of your supermarket shopping. 22
Chapter 8 - a cure against superbugs (antimicrobial resistance like bacteria resistant to antibiotic) based on creatures that perform betrayal against their own kind, named after Ephialtes from Trachis. 30
Chapter 9 – Making a vaccine against any virus without needing to understand its structure or DNA based on principles of assembly programming language 31
Chapter 10 – producing energy from the tides (rise and fall of sea level) by using hydraulic press: submerging a very wide flat piston that will be pressed down by the sea water, connected by a pipe to a tower on the beach where it's lifting a narrow piston/weight up to great height and this is potential energy. 34
Chapter 11 – Just like a silver teaspoon protects a cup from breaking (when you pour boiling water into it), so when a spacecrafts enters the atmosphere, we can use a very conducting material that will conduct the heat to a radiator behind the spacecraft (instead of a ceramic heat shield) 35
Chapter 12 – An efficient system to send packages (not people) between planets by connecting the idea of a repeater (from telecommunications) to the idea of a mass driver (from non-rocket spacelaunch / spacecraft propulsion) 38
Chapter 13 – The best way to make oxygen on Mars is with cyanobacteria, we maximize their surface using 3-D fractals 49
Chapter 14 - generating a magnetic field for Mars using an orbital ring made of metallic asteroids which are driven like "clay pigeon shooting" with a laser instead of a shotgun 56
Chapter 14 – Protecting Earth against a big comet 64
Chapter 15 – Protecting Mars colony against small asteroids 65
Chapter 16 – How to stop a gamma ray burst 66
Epilogue 67
