Designed from the keel up to deliver unsurpassed BMD war-fighting power, the DDG 1000 class destroyer combines huge electrical power margins (more than 20 times that available on even the newest DDG 51s) with designed-in open space for cooling, and with weight margins well in excess of what is needed to deploy highly powerful sensors, along with future weapons, that will put sea-based BMD well ahead of known BMD threats.

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The basic concept is the same as that underpinning the "white roads" idea -- the development of a technology that can reflect a proportion of the sun's radiation away from the earth's surface and back out into space, thereby cooling the atmosphere and slowing, or even reversing the damaging effects of global climate change.

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The Zumwalt has the power, cooling, space and weight margin designed to meet the full spectrum of future threats, both known and unknown.

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In fact, even the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change acknowledges that pollutant particles reflect sunlight back into space, which has a cooling effect.

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Many students of climate change argue that, although the artificial release of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide works to raise the global temperature, particulate pollution should, by promoting cloud cover and thus reflecting solar energy back into space, have a compensating cooling effect.

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The improved ability to scale infrastructure up or down to meet dynamically changing and new business needs increases business ability while shared IT infrastructure not only reduces hardware acquisition costs but also results in significant savings in IT staffing costs and data center space, power, and cooling.

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Herschel's cryostat approach to cooling was evolved from a previous Esa mission - the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO), which operated in the 1990s.

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