Like "smash labs" I haven't seen all the shows, but those that I saw made me skeptical. Yes, ideas are original, but also wacky. If you want a good show about the subject I recommend "After the warming" with simpler realistic solutions.
"Gamble" is quoted too often. In fact they talked about global warming for 20 years and every time they keep pushing the deadline. Did you notice this time they say the world will end by 2050? Why not 2045, 2040 or 2060? Give or take a year, a decade, a century? Hell, they talk only about the bad data, neglecting other stuff like how many new trees grow every day. The team are Yes-men without a skeptic to note obvious flaws. They all drive none-ecofriendly cars and won't probably give them up. They don't even look like scientist or best candidates for the job.
What I really hate is when the test goes horribly wrong and they say it was a success. What checklist are you using? "Rocket flew with cargo? Check. OK, we're done." Just admit it was a disaster, you learned something and can improve on it.
Making clouds is something global warming does perfectly by itself. Where do you think we get rain? Basic school stuff. A fleet of floating cloud making boilers is just dumb. Covering all glaciers with blankets was the stupidest idea. I laughed when they had to dig it out from under fresh snow. It would eventually sink to the bottom anyway, and yet they agree "it's a good idea". Sapling bombing is a good concept, but why not use more durable plants for starters? You can't expect weak bush seeds to survive big falls. And not every apple will become a tree. The wind power blimp turbine was a promising idea, but it will cost a fortune to maintain it. Plus you can't use a lot of these because they will cancel each other out. Substituting wireless energy for another is just changing the problem. Greenhouse or cancer? Take your pick.
If you can't build a small Moon base how can you build an orbital shield? Space is not an empty void. It's filled with incinerating radiation and asteroids. Lenses will get cracked. Some energy will get consumed by the lens and it will heat-up. Because satellites aren't grounded, even a small asteroid can whack it out of place and turn orbital power plant into a death ray. Might as well send garbage to create an artificial ring around Earth. Any rocket scientist will tell you why you can't go to the Moon by canon so the railgun launcher concept was wrongly exploited.
Oxygen scrubber was successful but CO2 disposal wasn't. Earth depths aren't an infinite hollow canister. Filling crust gaps is a nice idea, but not a long-term solution. Giving an excuse to make more gas will speed up the process of running out of pockets to pack. We all make CO2 gas and its artificial storage is less reliable than toxic waste storage. So we are back to where we started.
Plankton is small fish food. Instead of feeding ocean plankton why not cultivate it on land? Combine it with the scrubber and you don't have to store CO2. Excessive plankton can be eaten or dumped into ocean on necessity.
CO2 emission tax is the best solution. Greed is more efficient than Fear. Because of this show I will try searching for simpler solutions myself. If they can make money out of THAT I might as well try to get on the action.
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