Danny Hillis: Should we create a solar shade to cool the earth?
ダニー・ヒリス: 太陽光を使った地球工学は進めるべきか?
Inventor, scientist, author, engineer -- over his broad career, Danny Hillis has turned his ever-searching brain on an array of subjects, with surprising results. Full bio
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about engineering our climate]
語り始めるときです]
to build a thermostat
いつでも下げられる
the temperature of the earth
had a plausible idea about how to do that,
アイデアを持った人がいたら
of research on how to do it.
行われると思いますよね
do understand how to do that.
その方法を知っています
for research in this area.
あまり支持されないのが実情です
misunderstandings about it.
誤解のせいだと 私は思っています
today that this is a good idea.
納得してもらおうとは思っていません
your curiosity going about it
取り組みについて皆さんの興味を引き出し
of the misunderstandings.
解きたいと思っています
基本的な発想とは
少し余分に反射させるだけで
a little bit more sunlight
have been around literally for decades.
文字通り何十年も前から存在しています
these low-lying clouds.
それを実行するための最高の方法です
誰でも知っています
the same water content
この雲の中の水分含有量が
of a change in the flow of the air
空気の流れが ほんの少し変化するだけで
which are artificial water clouds
人工的な水蒸気の雲で
of a jet engine.
発生したものです
the clouds on earth.
地球上の雲を変化させています
by supersecret government conspiracy.
お好みでどうぞ
数多くやっている訳です
clouds to form,
雲の形成の原因になります
global warming already by about a degree.
軽減に貢献しています
実践しているわけです
about how to do this.
out into space
設置するという案から
あらゆる方法を検討してました
very plausible ideas.
実際とても頷けるものがあります
by David Keith at Harvard
デイヴィッド・キース博士が公開した案は
up into the stratosphere,
common minerals on earth,
最もありふれた鉱物で
we put it into baby food.
離乳食にも入っているくらいです
up into the stratosphere,
all by itself, dissolved in rainwater.
雨水に溶け込んで降ってきます
about all this chalk in your rainwater,
how little of it it actually takes.
説明させてください
very easy to calculate.
calculation I made.
行った大雑把な計算です
much more careful calculations,
念入りに計算したものでも
at the rate of about 10 teragrams a year
CO2の影響を相殺するには
that we've already done --
石灰を成層圏に撒かねばならないということ—
not all the effects, but the temperature.
あらゆる影響を相殺する訳ではありません
Fire Department and Taylor Milsal
テイラー・ミルサルに
at 10 teragrams a year.
水を放水しているところ
into the stratosphere
地球の温度を下げようとするなら
to pre-industrial levels.
放出すれば良いか分かります
it's like one hose for the entire earth.
ホース1本分で地球全体ですから
really use a hose,
ホースなんか使わずに
or something like that.
上空に行くことになるでしょう
putting a handful of chalk
言うなれば 一握りの石灰を
swimming pool full of rain.
雨水に入れるようなものです
受け入れられないのか?
very good reasons for that.
we should be talking about this at all.
議論すべきではないと考えています
very good friends in the audience
私のごく親しい友人で
I should be talking about this.
ではないと考えている人がいます
there's some easy way out,
人は化石燃料への依存を
our addiction to fossil fuels.
ではないかと懸念しているからです
a deeper problem,
of messing with the entire earth --
誰も望みません
for us to look for ways
緩和するための方法を探すことは
the science behind that.
that's kind of developed at TED,
それはTEDで膨らんだテーマです
確かに特効薬ではありません
what our options are;
教えてくれる科学が必要です
our creativity and our caution.
示してくれる科学が必要です
about our future selves,
未来の人類に対して楽観的ですが
because I think our problems are small.
楽観的なのではありません
our capacity to deal with our problems
人類の問題解決能力は
a lot of controversy at TED2017,
多くの論争を引き起こしました]
to look at discussions online
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Danny Hillis - Computer theoristInventor, scientist, author, engineer -- over his broad career, Danny Hillis has turned his ever-searching brain on an array of subjects, with surprising results.
Why you should listen
Danny Hillis is an inventor, scientist, author and engineer. While completing his doctorate at MIT, he pioneered the concept of parallel computers that is now the basis for graphics processors and cloud computing. He holds more than 300 US patents, covering parallel computers, disk arrays, forgery prevention methods, various electronic and mechanical devices, and the pinch-to-zoom display interface. He has recently been working on problems in medicine as well. He is also the designer of a 10,000-year mechanical clock, and he gave a TED Talk in 1994 that is practically prophetic. Throughout his career, Hillis has worked at places like Disney, and now MIT and Applied Invention, always looking for the next fascinating problem.
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