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- Ways to Save the Planet: Highlights Eps 5 to 8
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- Jan 29, 2009
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Ways To Save The Planet Videos
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- Rocket Launch
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- Duration:
- 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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- Duration:
- 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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- Duration:
- 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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- Duration:
- 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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- Duration:
- 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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- Duration:
- 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.
