Solar Storms Affirmative – 4 Week Lab [1/3]
A2: Not Feasible/Won’t Work/No Solvency
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A2: Not Feasible/Won’t Work/No SolvencyTriana features technology that would fill in crucial data for evaluating climate change due to its fixed location Valero, 1999, et. al, ND (ND, Francisco P. J. Valero, Jay Herman, Patrick Minnis, William D. Collins, Robert Sadourny, Warren Wiscombe, Dan Lubin, and Keith Ogilvie, “Triana A Deep Space Earth and Solar Observatory,” http://www-pm.larc.nasa.gov/triana/NAS.Triana.report.12.99.pdf) PHS 1.2 Science Payload and Retrieved Quantities The scientific payload is composed of the following instruments: Scripps-EPIC, a 10-channel spectroradiometer (ultraviolet, visible, and near infrared) that uses a 30 cm telescope and a state of the art detector array (near infrared, visible, and ultraviolet sensitive 2048 x 2048 CCD) to achieve the required sensitivity and spatial resolution. EPIC will send back Earth-reflected radiances that will be transformed into data products (e.g., ozone; aerosols; cloud fraction, thickness, optical depth, and height; sulfur dioxide; precipitable water vapor; volcanic ash; and UV irradiance) every hour for the entire globe at 8-14 km surface resolution. That is, hourly observations from sunrise to sunset instead of just once per day (as with TOMS, MODIS, SeaWifs, etc.). EPIC will make monthly measurements and images of the lunar surface at all 10 wavelengths (317.5 to 905 nm) as part of its calibration procedure. Scripps-NISTAR is a greatly improved, advanced technology version of the radiometers presently flown to monitor the total solar irradiance and the radiation reflected and emitted by the Earth. It consists of 4 radiometric channels (3 highly accurate and sensitive self-calibrating absolute cavities and 1 photo-diode) that will measure the total UV, visible, and IR radiances (0.2 to 100 mm) reflected or emitted from the entire sunlit Earth. Location at the L-1 observing position will permit long integration times, since no scanning is required. A radiometric accuracy of 0.1% is expected, a factor of about 10 improvement in accuracy (compared to Earth-orbiting satellites). These will be the only measurements of the entire Earth’s reflected and emitted radiation at the retro-reflection angles. As such, NISTAR will fill in important missing data not obtainable by any Earth-orbiting satellite. NISTAR radiances will be used for: a) estimating the albedo for the Earth-atmosphere system, b) evaluating estimates of the Earth radiation budget (ERB) from other monitoring systems like CERES, c) validating the mean radiance fields that can be directly computed from GCMs, d) evaluating the theoretical ratios of near-infrared to total reflectance, which are of intrinsic interest to the vegetation, cloud and snow/ice communities, and e) attempting to use the thermal infrared as integrative measures of global change. GSFC Plasma-Mag includes three instruments (Faraday cup, magnetometer, and electron spectrometer) that will obtain measurements of solar wind energetics and magnetic field characteristics at high temporal resolution. This is possible because Triana is a fixed orientation spacecraft (not spin stabilized), always having approximately the same position relative to the Earth-Sun line. Data would be shared with everyone and quickly ensuring progress is made efficiently Valero, 1999, et. al, ND (ND, Francisco P. J. Valero, Jay Herman, Patrick Minnis, William D. Collins, Robert Sadourny, Warren Wiscombe, Dan Lubin, and Keith Ogilvie, “Triana A Deep Space Earth and Solar Observatory,” http://www-pm.larc.nasa.gov/triana/NAS.Triana.report.12.99.pdf) PHS 1.3 Data Dissemination All of the data from the Triana instruments will be made available to the science team and to the general scientific community within hours after reception at the Triana Science Operations Center (TSOC). Archive of the EPIC and NISTAR data will be managed at the Langley Distributed Active Archive Center. Plasma-Mag solar weather data will be available within minutes from acquisition, and provided to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) for use in generating space weather forecasts and advisories. A2: Squo Solves Grid/Alternative Energy NowStatus Quo grid protection and energy policies don’t adequately protect against coming solar storms Webre, 2009 [Alfred Lambremont, The Examiner, “2012 may bring the "perfect storm" - solar flares, systems collapse” http://www.examiner.com/exopolitics-in-seattle/2012-may-bring-the-perfect-storm-solar-flares-systems-collapse, BJM] The Obama administration and most modern governmental energy departments in the 192 U.N. member nations have focused on reducing dependence on conventional energy grids (petroleum, coal or nuclear power) by introducing renewable energy sources such as wind, geo-thermal, and tidal power. These alternative sources are thought to supply about 10% of current energy needs. For example, the Obama policy with regard to the electrical energy grid is stated its official energy and the environment agenda on the White House website: “Ensure 10 percent of our electricity comes from renewable sources by 2012, and 25 percent by 2025.” This policy, which replicates energy grid policy in many advanced industrialized nations, is not adequate for the challenges of 2012 solar flares. The policy does not promote new fuel-less non-polluting energy sources now sequestered in secret, national security and black budget projects, and which have been developed using U.S. tax-payer funds. These included reported anti-gravitic technology and free energy technologies, based on Tesla technology. 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