Aerovator, Angel fleet, Polywell

[ciphergoth]

Ideas that are currently entertaining me:

• The Aerovator: a spinning wing 2,000km long whose tips rise 100km up and travel at 8 km/s which unlike the Space Elevator can be built (just) with today's materials.
• The Angel fleet: Counteracting global warming with a fleet of 16 trillon solar shades in space between the Earth and the Sun (we can use the Aerovator to put them up)
• Polywell fusion which if it turned out to be possible would save the world - plus we can power the Aerovator with it.

Comments

[ciphergoth.livejournal.com]

Each one weighs just over a gram - it probably takes about as much carbon to make the fleet as it does to make, I don't know, 20 million tons worth of toys or laptops or whatever. What's the most-made thing in the world, I wonder?

[meico.livejournal.com]

Artifical diamond?

[meico.livejournal.com]

Eck! Misread your question... I interpreted it as the most carbon producing thing to make...

In answer to your actual question... I would think it would be something "disposable". Maybe plastic bags? Loo roll?