If you want to reduce global warming, you have to isolate sources of heat, so the heat is not emitted into the Earth’s atmosphere. Any heat emitted into the Earth’s atmosphere would contribute to global warming. A power plant produces heat, as a by-product of producing electricity, and that’s true of nuclear power plants, coal-fired power plants,and natural gas-fired plants.
In order to stop the heat produced by these plants from getting into the Earth’s atmosphere,you must build a dome over every one of these plants. I call these domes ‘thermal isolation domes’.
If a dome is built over a power plant the heat produced by that plant will remain trapped within the dome, and if the heat is trapped inside the dome, it will never escape into the Earth’s atmosphere, and therefore it will never contribute to global warming.
Environmental activists should ask politicians to make laws that require thermal isolation domes to be built over every power plant on Earth, except, of course, solar, wind, and hydroelectric plants, because those plants don’t need domes.
Factories also produce heat. If a factory produces a significant amount of heat, you should build a dome over that factory. Environmental activists should ask politicians to make a law that requires every factory to be covered with a thermal isolation dome, if the factory produces a significant amount of heat.
The next step is to build domes over entire towns. A town produces heat, mostly because of cars and trucks that are operated in the town. If the town is small, you could build a dome that covers the entire town.
If the town is large, you must divide the town in to neighborhoods, and build a dome over each neighborhood. The domes will prevent heat produced by the town’s heat from escaping into the Earth’s atmosphere.
If any heat escapes into the Earth’s atmosphere, it will contribute to global warming, so the domes must completely cover every neighborhood in the town.
Cars in a domed town cannot use gasoline as fuel, because gasoline pollutes the air when it is burned. Because of this, gasoline-powered cars and trucks must be illegal in a domed town. Any town that is covered with a dome must have strict laws that prevent air pollution.
No fires would be allowed inside the domes, that means you can’t cook your food with a charcoal grill,you will have to cook it with an electric stove or a microwave oven.
The cars and trucks in the domed city must be electric vehicles or they must use some non-polluting power system, perhaps some form of hydrogen fuel cell.
Eventually, even the biggest cities in the world, such as New York, London, Moscow, and Tokyo would have to be covered with domes, to prevent global warming.
Environmentalists should ask politicians to create international treaties that require thermal isolation domes to be built over every city on Earth. Cars and trucks could travel between the domed cities in tunnels.
The heat produced by the cars and trucks would remain trapped inside the tunnels, so the heat would never escape into the Earth’s atmosphere. It may sound difficult to build a dome over every city and town on Earth, but the time frame that we’re dealing with stretches out for centuries.
Global warming isn’t going to go away anytime soon. If the Earth’s average temperature will increae over the next hundred years, you might as well spend the next hundred years building domes over cities.
Preventing global warming is not the only advantage of living in a domed city. Another advantage is protection from disease. The people who live in domed cities would breathe clean, filtered air. Global warming would naturally increase the spread of tropical diseases, like malaria.
Diseases like malaria were confined to tropical regions, but as global warming causes the Earth to heat up, tropical diseases like malaria may spread as far north as Alaska and Canada. The air inside a domed city would not simply be sucked in from outside the dome, it would have to pass through filters first.
The filters would remove any germs that may be present in the air, so the germs will not enter the city. The people who live in the domed city would enjoy better health.
The dome over the city also prevents birds and insects from getting in. Birds and insects may have germs inside their bodies, so the health of the people in the city would be improved by keeping birds and insects out.
