Ah, you read the Gates study. I love that idea. There is actually a huge amount of that stuff that is created by Canadian oil sands production, and nobody wants it. I think the smell would be issue #1.
However, even this idea, which includes turning air craft carriers in to water pumps, and hot air balloons to raise a hose high enough, is extremely crude. Claiming to have terraforming plans is akin to wanting to install a geo-thermal HVAC system, but we currently only know how to light wood on fire.
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Easiest way to control planet temperature is some sort of massive solar filter that sits between earth and the sun. Then you can adjust the termostat up or down as needed.
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Terraforming a planet like Mars is a total pipe dream anyway. The planet is no longer seismically active, unlike Earth where tectonic shifts constantly relieve pressure and heat from the core and mantle and keep the internal balance of a liquid/solid hybrid core and a strong enough dynamo effect by our rotation to generate our magnetosphere. Mars' core is solidified and as such does not have the temperature differential between solid and liquid core materials and rotation necessary to generate a strong enough magnetosphere. Whatever atmosphere we did try to generate would be stripped away by solar winds almost as fast as we can produce it. The lighter elements are especially at risk, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen are literally stripped away every minute like what happens to a comet as it traverses the solar system. This atmospheric stripping is exacerbated by Mars' much lower gravity, even heavier compounds like CO2 and Methane, would be slowly eroded into the void.
I dunno, maybe the hot one has a breathable atmosphere? The term "terraforming" implies sweeping changes to the climate, not just making it 2 degrees warmer. Also, the temperature of our current planet is irrelevant to humans directly (within a range). It's just that we need the whole ecosystem to be functional. We could survive just fine on a warmer planet, assuming it's ecosystem was functioning at that temperature.
Cool, I guess.
Not sure why this really matters though, given we can't get there and won't be for ah, a long time.
Hang, this tail chasing has made me dizzy.
My point is that we don't actually have any technology even remotely resembling terraforming. To even bring that up is ridiculous. If we can find a rock that we can live on and get to, we will just go and live there. End of story. No Star Trek, no Spock.