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1. The Chinese city of Chengdu is planning to launch an illumination satellite disguised as an artificial moon within the next two years, as a replacement for its street lights.
The satellite would imitate the glow of the real moon while emitting a more powerful light, able to illuminate the city's streets at night.
Wu Chunfeng, chairman of Chengdu Aerospace Science and Technology Microelectronics System Research Institute, announced the news at a national mass innovation and entrepreneurship event earlier this month.
Chinese newspaper People's Daily reports that the illumination satellite is designed to complement the moon at night, boasting a "dusk-like glow" that will be bright enough to replace street lights in the south-western city of Chengdu.
According to Wu, the brightness of the artificial moon is eight times that of the real moon and will be able to light an area with a diameter of six to 50 miles, while the precise illumination range can be controlled within a few dozen meters. Wu explained that testing of the satellite was started years ago, and the technology was now developed enough to enable them to set a launch date for 2020. According to People's Daily, the concept was inspired by a French artist, who imagined hanging a necklace made of mirrors above the earth, which could reflect sunshine through the streets of Paris all year round.
Chengdu's artificial moon will have a coating that can reflect light from the sun using solar panel-like wings, whose angles can be adjusted to concentrate the light on a precise location, Asia Times reported. No further specifications of the spacecraft and its workings, or its exact launch date, have been revealed.
Concerns have been raised that the lights reflected from space could have negative effects on the daily routine of certain animals and astronomical observation. However, Kang Weimin, director of the Institute of Optics of the Harbin Institute of Technology, explained that the light emitted by the satellite is similar to a "dusk-like glow", and therefore should not affect animals' routines.
A similar endeavor on a smaller scale in 2013 saw a German company harvest the light from the sun to concentrate light on a Norwegian town center. The company installed three large, solar-powered, computer-controlled mirrors in the mountains above the town of Rjukan to track the movement of the sun and reflect its rays down on the town square.
2. The Himalayas have blown up the gap and northwest China has become a rain zone
The Himalayas are located on the edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and are the highest mountains in the world. China's northwest region is located in the interior of China, a large area. However, it is precise because of the Himalayas and the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau blocking, the Indian Ocean warm and humid airflow can not be directly blown into the interior of our country, so that China's frequent drought and water shortage, and the vast northwest and northern parts of the large desert, not only can not be cultivated, even trees and grass is not long.
Some scientists in our country believe that if we blow a 50-kilometer gap in the Himalayas, warm and humid air in the Indian Ocean will lead to the northwest, improving the climate of the northwest and building the northwest into a region south of the Yangtze River.
However, in fact, due to the mountain blocking of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau (the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is 3000-5000 meters above sea level), wet and hot water gas to the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau will still form glaciers, permafrost phenomenon (down 0.6 degrees C per 100 meters). The water vapor on the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau is affected by the west wind belt, mainly to the east, through the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau all the way east along the Yangtze River basin, but these places are not short of water, is China's rich water town. So even opening a gap in the Himalayas won't lead water vapor to where China really lacks water.
3. Throw a nuclear bomb into the eye of a typhoon and completely destroy it.
Typhoons (hurricanes) are a very difficult weather phenomenon in the Pacific coastal countries every summer and autumn, because of the special nature of typhoon weather, human intervention has been difficult to carry out. But some scientists proposed to use nuclear weapons against typhoons, specifically, the atomic bomb thrown into the eyes of typhoons, detonated nuclear bombs, huge "mushroom clouds" straight up, super-hot air once spread, cold air suddenly inward, thus offsetting the typhoon's powerful lethality, and even the typhoon dissipated invisibly.
But in fact, although high-energy shock waves are enough to destroy the typhoon core, the problem is that the typhoon range of 400 to 600 km, although the core is disturbed, the peripheral ring structure still maintains the form of convergence, will soon re-form a new typhoon, but also will be the energy of the nuclear explosion into the core wind eyes, the two energy combined, the typhoon becomes stronger and stronger.
The most deadly point is that a nuclear explosion can produce a lot of radioactive material, once the typhoon landed on the coast, for urban residents is simply a doomsday level of the blow, it is totally "playing with fire and self-immolation."
4. 15 million people dance to remove haze fans to "get out of Beijing" with a mild haze
At the beginning of the year, the inventor Du once applied for a patent for the "Smog Removal Program", in which 15 million people held haze fans in the same direction during the winter when Beijing Haze Lock City, in the same time to "incite" in the same direction, to establish a strong wind pressure, forcing air with haze particles to flow in the same direction, you can just form a light haze out of Beijing City, and avoid heavy haze.
But in fact, the wind is a kind of appearance of atmospheric motion, artificial wind and wind in the natural environment is completely different, the wind in nature is caused by the difference between hot and cold, the man-made wind is the principle of fluid mechanics, the faster the airflow speed, the greater the formation of wind if there is really a blower capable of driving the haze, the height must reach at least 1000 meters and the number of 2-3.
Meteorologists said that the current artificial impact of the weather is limited to small-scale weather systems, such as local artificial rainfall, artificial de-pollution, and often only the role of the icing on the cake, the fundamental need to rely on nature's own ability to move to achieve, such as wind, such as large-scale global weather phenomenon, it is difficult to achieve through artificial intervention.
