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Re:China’s Plan to Keep Sand from Swallowing the World by phkahler on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @11:28AM (#15961305)
One thought I had is this: Put superconducting cables around the planet at say 20-30deg north and south. Apply a huge current to provide a magnetic field to protect the atmosphere so that is may come back over time. We did the rough calculation and came up with something like 1 million Amp-Turns to get a decent planetary field but that seemed low to me and we never rechecked our work.

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