I think this idea may have a chance at stopping global warming. What do you think?

Question

In science, I learned that noise-cancelling headphones seem to block out noise by 'reading' the incoming sound waves and producing an exact match of each one, but in the opposite directions, so a wave with either a smaller frequency and wavelength or none at all is 'produced.' Heat from the sun travels in many different forms, but they are all waves, so couldn't the same thing be applied to the infrared or other waves that cause heat? I'm not saying to totally neutralize all incoming heat in all of its forms or even one form. I'm also not saying that I know this would work or that I know how to do it(I'm only 13,) but I just came up with it while I was watching 'An Inconvenient Truth.' Again, I have no idea how to do this, but can anyone tell me whether or not it would work?

Answer 1

You are thinking about a phenomenon called interference that you will learn more about when you study physics. While interference is used regularly in an optics lab, it is not a practical solution for global warming. Bodies emit so-called black body radiation with a wavelength distribution determined by their temperature. Hot bodies, such as the sun, emit more energy at short wavelengths (visible) and cooler bodies, such as the earth, emit more energy at long wavelengths (infrared). The energy from short wavelength radiation from the sun are re-radiated by the earth as infrared radiation. As long as the total energy coming in stays the same as the total energy escaping to space, the average temperature of the earth stays the same and people can live without problems. The problem is that some gasses in the atmosphere, such as carbon dioxide, are transparent to visible light but absorb infrared light and re-radiate about half back to earth. This greenhouse effect warms the earth and allows liquid water to exist. Water is a greenhouse gas too, but when it forms clouds some solar radiation is refelected, so it acts like a thermostat. The science becomes quite complex because there are other important factors such as albedo, particulates and the physical chemistry of the atmosphere to take into account. It is important that we do not push the earth outside of the range that the natural thermostat can work. Hopefully by the time you are 31 rather than 13, you will be the scientist that comes up with another solution to keep the earth habitable. Meanwhile, plant a tree.

Answer 2

Read a book on the"String Theory" it deals with all reality is energy and as energy reference points inter-acting allows for sub atomic particles (vibrating frequency's) that interact as atoms and so fourth. There in lies your counter forces of energy frequency's. As to global warming - what cycles is not so much as what man has done but more as to what many things interacting brings fourth. We know so little and what we feel needs correcting will at best blow-up in our faces. Cool the earth you say- at best we accelerate global warming and at worst we will bring on the glaciers (the deep freeze). many of these cycles have come and gone - Man and his put put machines are not the source of the problem - and if you think we are , perhaps genocide is your answer.

Answer 3

properly the sunlight emits vast quantities of capability and easy-weight of all wavelengths. i'm no longer able to think of that we ought to supply adequate waves to counter all the sunlight's waves. additionally, i'm undecided if an identical concept as in headphones could be utilized here. regularly simply by fact we are speaking approximately electromagnetic waves, no longer purely vibrations interior the air. On precise of that, we are coping with the wave/particle duality of light here, so once you save in mind that easy behaves no longer purely as a wave, yet as a particle, all of us get particularly perplexed. do no longer think of the plan will pan out. yet besides the actuality that, difficult concept, solid questioning.

Answer 4

I admire someone "only 13" who's thinking about something besides doing drugs, sex, and rap 'music.' I don't know if your idea is practical or even feasible, but I do know you're a unique young person. Keep thinking!

Answer 5

the REAL problem of global warming has nothing to do with the Sun

1800 - 900 million people
1900 - 1.6 billion people
2000 - 6 billion people
2005 - 8.5 billion - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ---

are people our problem?

Answer 6

Patent that idea NOW smarty pants.

No, sorry, too late.

Sounds ok to me, but I'm only 36.

Answer 7

grow chronic