Ways To Save The Planet Video

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1. Ways to Save the Planet: Wind Turbines

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   Could helium-filled aerial turbines be the answer to humanity's reliance on fossil fuels?

   

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   Dec 7, 2010

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   2,385

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   04:21

2. Ways to Save the Planet: Wrapping Greenland

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   By covering Greenland's melting glaciers with reflective blankets one scientist hopes to reverse global warming.

   

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   Dec 7, 2010

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   02:22

3. Ways to Save the Planet: Wrapping Greenland Promo

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   By covering Greenland's melting glaciers with reflective blankets one scientist hopes to reverse global warming.

   

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   01:33

4. Ways to Save the Planet: Marine Stratocumulus Clouds

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   Using Salt Flares the Discovery team test if it is possible to seed or even create Marine Stratocumulus Clouds. These clouds could help reflect the suns rays and therefore combat global warming.

   

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   Dec 7, 2010

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   757

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   04:17

5. Ways to Save the Planet: Raining Forests

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   Mark Hodges has a radical yet simple idea for swift reforestation of the worlds lost forests: delivering seedlings via mass airdrops.

   

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   Dec 7, 2010

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   483

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   02:34

6. Ways to Save the Planet: Seed Bombs

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   The Discovery team test different low tech seed cannisters for large scale reforestation via airdrop.

   

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   Dec 7, 2010

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   449

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   03:42

7. Ways to Save the Planet: Customising Clouds

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   Can customised clouds help to reflect more sunlight and therefore cool the planet?

   

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   Dec 7, 2010

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   967

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   02:49

8. Ways to Save the Planet: Forest Bomb Experiment

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   The Discovery team need to find the perfect delivery system for bombing seedlings from an aircraft to achieve perfect reforesting conditions.

   

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   Dec 7, 2010

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   733

   Duration:

   03:51

9. Ways to Save the Planet: Phytoplankton

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   Phytoplankton produce about 90% of the atmosphere's oxygen whilst absorbing carbon dioxide. Dr Brian Von Herzong wants to increase the population of these plankton to battle the effects of carbon emissions.

   

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   Dec 7, 2010

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   1,434

   Duration:

   04:44

10. Ways to Save the Planet: Mass Reforestation

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    The Discovery Team look at how a worldwide reforestation effort could help to combat carbon emissions.

    

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    Dec 7, 2010

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    740

    Duration:

    03:03

11. Ways to Save the Planet: Space Sunshield

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    Not everyone is so sure a sun shade in space is the answer to Earth's problem of global warming.

    

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    Dec 7, 2010

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    407

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    04:51

12. Ways to Save the Planet: Rocket Launch

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    An experiment to see if ultra-thin space shield lenses can stand the stress of a rocket launch is not going well.

    

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    Dec 7, 2010

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    Duration:

    04:24

13. Ways to Save the Planet: 16 Trillion Space Lenses

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    The logistics of covering one million square miles with light refracting lenses are astronomical.

    

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    Dec 7, 2010

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    02:59

14. Ways to Save the Planet: Turn Down the Sun

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    Roger Angel has a radical plan to diffuse the sun's energy with a giant sun shield in space

    

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    Dec 7, 2010

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    Duration:

    02:09

15. Ways to Save the Planet: On the Melt Lake

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    During an experiment to see if a reflective blanket can protect a Glacier from melting the team must first test the local envirnment for danger.

    

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    Dec 7, 2010

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    362

    Duration:

    03:41

16. Ways to Save the Planet: Melt Lakes

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    The best place to test the effectiveness of a reflective blanket on a glacier is also a most unstable and dangerous place, a Melt Lake.

    

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    Dec 7, 2010

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    519

    Duration:

    03:08

17. Ways to Save the Planet: The Moulin

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    To find out just how quickly Greenland is melting, the Discovery team must hang over an almost bottomless pit, a Moulin.

    

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    Dec 7, 2010

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    Duration:

    02:57

18. Ways to Save the Planet: Highlights Eps 5 to 8

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    Discovery

    

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    01:12

19. Ways to Save the Planet: Highlights Eps 1 to 4

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    Discovery

    

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    01:08

20. Ways to Save the Planet: Space Sunshield

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    Discovery

    

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    Duration:

    01:30

21. Ways to Save the Planet: Raining Forests

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    Discovery

    

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    Duration:

    01:24

22. Ways to Save the Planet: Orbital Power Plant

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    Discovery

    

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    Duration:

    01:36

23. Ways to Save the Planet: Infinite Winds

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    Discovery

    

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    Duration:

    01:13

24. Ways to Save the Planet: Hungry Ocean

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    Discovery

    

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    Duration:

    01:37

25. Ways to Save the Planet: Fixing Carbon

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    Could a simple 'Carbon Scrubber' be the answer to cleaning our atmosphere of excess Carbon emissions?

    

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    Dec 7, 2010

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    1,058

    Duration:

    01:27

26. Ways to Save the Planet: Brighter World

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    Discovery

    

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    Dec 7, 2010

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    646

    Duration:

    01:24