"Unless the world community can do better at cutting emissions, we fear we will need additional techniques such as geo-engineering to avoid very dangerous climate change in the future," said John Shepherd of the University of Southampton, who chaired the RS report.
But some scientists argue that engineering nature to avoid environmental damage inevitably causes other, perhaps greater damage.
Increase of the guideway mass and its stiffness is the common engineering application to avoid the phenomena, but this will result in a substantial increase in the construction cost of maglev line, and severely restrain the promotion of maglev transportation [4, 5].
If our failure to cut emissions is a result of the power of corporate interests, the fetish for economic growth and the comfortable conservatism of a consumer society, then resorting to climate engineering allows us to avoid facing up to social dysfunction, at least for as long as it works.
These studies illuminate a novel approach to antigen-specific immunotherapy by genetically engineering the host to avoid on-target, off-tumor toxicity.
We have developed 'cell sheet engineering' in order to avoid the limitations of tissue reconstruction using biodegradable scaffolds or single cell suspension injection.
Knowledge of damage accumulation and corresponding failure evolution are prerequisite for effective maintenance of civil engineering so as to avoid disaster.
