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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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- Rocket Launch
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- 04:24
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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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- The Moulin
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- 02:57
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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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- On the Melt Lake
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- 03:41
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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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- Melt Lakes
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- 03:08
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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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- Wind Turbines
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- 04:21
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- Could helium-filled aerial turbines be the answer to humanity's reliance on fossil fuels?
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- Turn Down the Sun
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- 02:09
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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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- Space Sunshield
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- Duration:
- 04:51
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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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- 16 Trillion Space Lenses
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- Duration:
- 02:59
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- The logistics of covering one million square miles with light refracting lenses are astronomical.
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- Seed Bombs
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- 03:42
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- The Discovery team test different low tech seed cannisters for large scale reforestation via airdrop.
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- Forest Bomb Experiment
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- Duration:
- 03:51
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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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- Customising Clouds
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- Duration:
- 02:49
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- Can customised clouds help to reflect more sunlight and therefore cool the planet?
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- Mass Reforestation
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- Duration:
- 03:03
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- The Discovery Team look at how a worldwide reforestation effort could help to combat carbon emissions.
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- Marine Stratocumulus Clouds
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- Duration:
- 04:17
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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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- Raining Forests
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- Duration:
- 02:34
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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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- Phytoplankton
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- Duration:
- 04:44
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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.
