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>Michael Buckwitz, a physicist at Bremen University and an advisor to the project, said every source of CO2 on earth would be passed over every two to three day
by DoctorOetker 7y ago
>Michael Buckwitz, a physicist at Bremen University and an advisor to the project, said every source of CO2 on earth would be passed over every two to three days.
Given the predictable orbits, what will prevent nations / companies from emitting less on "surveillance hour", and emitting more when out of sight?
- erentz 7y agoGiven a certain density of satellites there must be a crossover point where avoiding detection is either more cost prohibitive than just retooling to avoiding emissions, and/or where emitters will be offline so much to avoid detection that they’ll essentially be cutting their emissions by shutting down anyway.
- askvictor 7y agoYou can't turn coal plants on and off quickly
- cududa 7y agoThat’s ridiculously infeasible. There isn’t like a single dial in each country to turn CO2 emissions up or down
- mturmon 7y agoAll the prior emissions will still be downwind and be readily detected. (Source: I supervise people doing this analysis).