Talk:Planetary engineering
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A few of us have been trying to start up a new Wikipedia:WikiProject Space Colonization (shortcut WP:SPACE) to organize work on topics of direct relevance to planetary engineering. Hop on over if you're interested. - Reaverdrop 16:08, 10 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] "Politics of geoengineering"
Should this section be here with out a reference? If you could Reference this please.Leapster 15:16, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
[edit] GeoEngineering is a real discipline
Uh, guys... geoengineers actually exist - it's a subset of Civil Engineering. GeoEngineers and do the following things:
- Foundation Engineering
- Soil Mechanics (i.e. anytime you build any building you must look at the soil strength)
- Geothermal Energy
- Seismic Hazards/ Earthquakes
- Rock Mechanics - e.g. tunnels, mines etc.
- Geophysical Surveys
- Dams/Hydro/ Levees (think Katrina)
- Environmental remediation/design
- Petroleum
- Mining
- Geology...
- Tsunami stuff
- ETC
ANY large scale Civil Engineering Product
[edit] Methods of geoengineering
Should this article include descriptions of the various proposed methods of geoengineering and their possible benefits and drawbacks? 144.226.230.36 21:08, 16 March 2007 (UTC)