Macro-Projects : Environment and Technology

by Bolonkin, Alexander; Cathcart, Richard Brook

• ISBN13: 9781604569988
• ISBN10: 1604569980
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-02-15
• Publisher: Nova Science Pub Inc

Summary

This book describes many new macro-projects, both USA and other countries patented concepts, speculative macro-engineering ideas, and other general innovations in technology and environmental change. These all hold the enticing promise for a true revolution in the lives of humans everywhere in the Solar System. Here, the authors include and review new methods for travel in outer space, promising means to increase the safety of aviation, comfortable permanent settlements on the Moon and Mars, as well as for Earth's hazardous polar regions, control of local and global weather conditions, new methods of irrigation "without water", conversion of cold and hot deserts and Earth's non-twin polar regions to 'evergreen' gardens, protection against forecasted hurricane storm surge waves and inundations, unpredictable tsunami, and other weather-related floods, cheap protection of cities against nuclear warheads and aviation bombs, magnetic aircraft, channels for free travelling in outer space, thermonuclear reactors, wind power stations, along with many others. They succinctly summarise some of these revolutionary macro-projects, concepts, ideas, innovations, and methods for scientists, engineers, technical students, and the world public. They do seek future attention from the general public, other macro-engineers, inventors, as well as scientists of all persuasions for these presented innovations. And, naturally, they fervently hope the popular news media, various governments and the large international aerospace and other engineering-focused corporations will, as well, increase their respective observation, R&D activity in the technologies for living and the surrounding human environment.

Author Biography

Alexander A. Bolonkin was born in the former Soviet Union. He holds a doctoral degree in aviation engineering from Moscow Aviation Institute and a post-doctoral degree in aerospace engineering from Leningrad Polytechnic University. He has held the positions of senior engineer at the Antonov Aircraft Design Company and chairman of the Reliability Department at the Clushko Rocket Design Company. He has also lectured at the Moscow Aviation Universities. Following his arrival in the United States in 1988, he lectured at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and worked as a senior researcher at NASA and the US Air Force Research Laboratories. Professor Bolonkin is the author of more than 170 scientific articles and books, and has 17 inventions to his credit. His most notable books include The Development of the Soviet Rocket Engine (Delphic Assoc, Inc., 1991); Non-Rocket Space Launch and Flight (Elsevier, 2006); New Concepts, Ideas, and Innovation in Aerospace, Technology and Human Life (Nova, 2008); and Human Immortality and Electronic Civilization, Third Edition (Lulu, 2007). A geographer specializing in macroengineering, Richard Cathcart is the author of many papers and articles dealing with novel aspects of superscale engineering and astroengineering projects. He was awarded an MA in geography and founded GEOGRAPHOS, a Burbank, California consultancy, in 1969. His current research interests include the history of anthropogeomorphology and terraforming; in 1995 he completed a 600-page textbook on these subjects, emphasizing the geopolitical aspects of famous as well as little-known macroproject proposals.

Table of Contents

About the Authors	p. vii
Abstract	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Technology	p. 1
AB Method of Irrigation without Water (Closed-loop Water Cycle)	p. 3
Inflatable Dome for Moon, Mars, Asteroids and Satellites	p. 35
Passenger Life-Saving in a Badly Damaged Aircraft Scenario	p. 51
Electrostatic Climber for Space Elevator and Launcher	p. 65
Protection of New York City's Urban Fabric With Low-Cost Textile Storm Surge Barriers	p. 83
Cheap AB-Shield for a Nuclear Warhead Assaulted City	p. 97
Simplest AB-Thermonuclear Space Propulsion and Electric Generator	p. 135
Protection of Cities from Small Rockets, Missiles, Projectiles and Mortar Shells	p. 149
AB-Net Method of Protection from Projectiles (City, Military Base, Battle-front, etc.)	p. 175
AB-Space Propulsion	p. 199
Thermonuclear Reflect AB-Reactor	p. 227
AB Electronic Tubes and Quasi-Superconductivity at Room Temperature	p. 251
Magnetic Propeller for Uniform Magnetic Field Levitation	p. 271
Environment	p. 297
Cheap Artificial AB-Mountains, Extraction of Water and Energy from Atmosphere and Change of Regional Climate	p. 299
The Golden Gate Textile Barrier: Preserving California's Bay of San Francisco from a Rising North Pacific Ocean	p. 335
Lake Titicaca - Physics of an Inherited Hydropower Macro-project Proposal	p. 349
Preservation of the Mediterranean Sea during Global Sea Level Rise with a Gibraltar Strait Textile Barrage (GSTB)	p. 363
The Java-Sumatra Aerial Mega-Tramway	p. 377
Antarctica: A Southern Hemisphere Windpower Station?	p. 407
Floating Cities, Islands and States	p. 421
Saving of Dead Sea and Stabilization Thereof	p. 435
Science Research and Technical Progress	p. 465
Appendix	p. 479
General References	p. 495
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