Scientists all over the world are already on it.

10. Ocean Iron Fertilization

“Give me half a tanker of iron, and I’ll give you an ice age” ~John Martin, discoverer of the Ocean Iron Fertilization Idea.

Introduce iron into the ocean’s upper layer and increase the amount of phytoplankton (plant plankton) in the ocean. This in turn will increase the amount of food for ocean life, strengthen the ecosystem and most importantly, take in CO2 and release oxygen. The problem however, is not just the process but the scale on which it has to be done to make an impact.

9. Cloud Reflectivity Enhancement

Making clouds whiter. How? Apparently the “viable plan” by Stephen Salter of the University of Edinburgh is to have 1500 special ships known as Flettner ships to spray ocean water into the atmosphere. The ocean spray would work within a concept known as the Twomey Effect. The biggest problem is the lack on ocean nuclei needed due to pollution.

Problem: 1500 honkin’ ships shooting water into the air.

8. Scatterers – Stratospheric Sulfate Aerosols

Release microparticles into the atmosphere at the rate of 1 million metric tons a year through the use of jumbo jets and military artillery. The idea is to reflect some of the sunlight entering our atmosphere, thus reducing warming effects and helping us keep nice and cool. Read more at Wikipedia.

7. Sun-blocking Space Crafts

Some people have been watching way too many movies; Stephen Schneider of Stanford University to be precise. He suggests building 60,000 shiny space crafts and putting them into orbit. This is yet another proposed process to avert some of the sun’s rays (10% to be exact) and cool the earth. Cost: $100 billion a year.

What would Spock say?

6. The CO2 Scrubber

Like the concept of terraforming was introduced in the movie Total Recall, the idea here is to create 250,000 C02 scrubbers and deploy them around the world. The greenhouse gases would be stored underground and used to fuel industries. Here’s the rub: 250,000 units- that’s a quarter-million machines built and deployed. It’s not impossible, but considering the world’s governments can’t agree on a lunch menu, how would they organize such a crazy project?

5. Artificial Trees

The concept of building artificial trees around the world and allowing them to filter out the carbon monoxide is just the ticket. I have no idea why this wouldn’t work beyond the fact that we’re using artificial trees. Why not just plant more trees? Oh wait, we need those for cutting. Perhaps a better plan would be to make artificial trees and cut them down and leave the real ones alone. Nutty as it may seem, this idea has already received media attention.

4. The Sulfur Dioxide Hose

The idea is to loft baloons into the air and have them just floating around. The huge balloons would have several air hoses attached to them that would spray sulfur dioxide into the atmosphere creating a nice red hue at sunset.

The technology is available right now and could be readily deployed. The downside is that like many other expensive international endeavors, one country will probably end up footing the 300 trillion dollar bill. See Treehugger article for more information.

3. Space Frisbees to Save Earth

The idea has been proposed to shoot millions of reflective disks into orbit around the Earth. We’re talking in the neighborhood of 80,000 discs per minute over the course of years. Hasbro, an American Toy maker, is firmly behind this idea, as are skeet shooting clubs around the world.

2. The Volcano Idea

To create manmade volcanoes and use them to spew forth enough particles to help cool the Earth: This is an ongoing project by the British Royal Society that would require an eruption every few months for the rest of our time here on Earth or at least until we can figure out how to reduce our emissions and clean up what we’ve already done.

Where these eruptions are to take place and what the effects on the Earth would be, no one really knows. Personally I believe any volcanoes that are manmade should be made into amusement parks as well. The braincases who endorse this idea should be the only ones allowed in the park, preferably just before an eruption.

1. The “Farting Tank” for Cows

Though this isn’t strictly Geo-engineering, Scientists figure that one steak dinner for a family of four equals the same amount of greenhouse gas emission as a long drive in a SUV. The thought is to either figure out a way to reduce the methane production of cattle or reduce the amount of cattle being herded. One proposed way to reduce the gas production of cattle is to feed them garlic. Another is to attach plastic tanks to the cow to encapsulate its farts.

Why not just take it to the next level and shoot them into space? Their corpses could block out the sun and reduce greenhouse emissions. They would no doubt stay fresh and we could retrieve the beef at anytime through shuttle missions. Too nutty? See above.

For further funny reading on cows as #1 climate crook, check out this article:  “Meet the world’s top destroyer of the environment. It is not the car, or the plane,or even George Bush: it is the cow.”

1. Giant mirror to reflect sunlight to little Italian village Viganella

The little Italian village of Viganella by the Italian alps live most of the year in the shadow of a mountain. But thanks to an unkown innovative architect and inventor, the village recieved the first, and the world’s first “sun mirror” earlier this year.

A 26 x 16 feet large computer driven mirror costing over 100,000 euros was installed on the opposite montain side to the village. Now shedding sunlight to the inhabitants. Read the full story.

2. Hotel EverLand – The first ever mobile hotel

Hotel Everland introduces the first mobile hotel room, today to be booked in London and Paris. Here placed on top of a museum overlooking the eiffle tower, residents pay around $600-$800 for a night. Room service is available around the clock and delivered through the museum.  Visit Hotel Everland and see if you can get a room, the booking system does not allow just anybody to reserve the mobile hotel room however. A lucky few every year get to spend the night in this rather large rectangular suite of futuristic design.

3. The Pinguin Tea Timer

Automatic tea timer to create a perfect cup of tea. The timer can be set from 1 to 20 minutes and raises the tea bag up from the cup to ensure not too strong or soft cup of tea.

4. The Shower Mic – A spunge like a microphone

For the shower singing enthusiast, the Shower Mic is formed like a microphone to optimize the singing experience.

5. Laser Scissors

Ever tried to cut a straight line with normal scissors. Of course you have and in doing so you also know how hard/impossible it is. Well, where there is a problem, there is also eventually a solution. Laser scissors leads the way to a perfectly straight line.

6. The Thing – Infant Pillow

A great invention for all bad parents who don’t want to hold their child. Put him/her in a pair of clown-looking hands and he/she will sleep like a….baby?
The Dynamic (Rotating Tower)

7. Facebook for spies

Just had to include this innovative inventions only for secret agents, spies and other agents that works under any of the 13 U.S hush hush agencies. Apparently a facebook-like social network has been created so they can become friends and swap info of top-secret kind.

8. The lift-assist

A true testament of how limitless inventors can be. Rather than taking on the issue of people being overweight with large asses, some guy comes up with the lift-assist or should I say ass-lifter – to help people get up out of their heavy asses.

9. The Car driven by compressed air – The AirPod

MIDI has now launched the first air powered automobile after years of inventing and chasing investors. The AirPod runs solely on compressed air that makes the engine and cylinder run. MIDI puts hope in this innovative alternative to fuel driven cars and claims it will become a market competitor in the future.

10. The Bottled Ashtray – Fot the more strenous dorm party

Smart solution to fimping in empty beer bottles at parties. Still taking advantage of the smart and conceling function of a bottle as an ashtray – simply adding a traditional form makes this bottle ashtray a perfect household solution.