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"By most accounts, the leading contender is stratospheric aerosol particles," said climatologist John Shepherd of Britain's Southampton University.
The particles would be sun-reflecting sulfates spewed into the lower stratosphere from aircraft, balloons or other devices – much like the sulfur dioxide emitted by the eruption of the Philippines' Mount Pinatubo in 1991, estimated to have cooled the world by 0.5 degrees C (0.9 degrees F) for a year or so.
Engineers from the University of Bristol, England, plan to test the feasibility of feeding sulfates into the atmosphere via a kilometers-long (miles-long) hose attached to a tethered balloon.
Shepherd and others stressed that any sun-blocking "SRM" technique – for solar radiation management – would have to be accompanied by sharp reductions in carbon dioxide emissions on the ground and some form of carbon dioxide removal, preferably via a chemical-mechanical process not yet perfected, to suck the gas out of the air and neutralize it.
"By most accounts, the leading contender is stratospheric aerosol particles," said climatologist John Shepherd of Britain's Southampton University.
The particles would be sun-reflecting sulfates spewed into the lower stratosphere from aircraft, balloons or other devices – much like the sulfur dioxide emitted by the eruption of the Philippines' Mount Pinatubo in 1991, estimated to have cooled the world by 0.5 degrees C (0.9 degrees F) for a year or so.
Engineers from the University of Bristol, England, plan to test the feasibility of feeding sulfates into the atmosphere via a kilometers-long (miles-long) hose attached to a tethered balloon.
Shepherd and others stressed that any sun-blocking "SRM" technique – for solar radiation management – would have to be accompanied by sharp reductions in carbon dioxide emissions on the ground and some form of carbon dioxide removal, preferably via a chemical-mechanical process not yet perfected, to suck the gas out of the air and neutralize it.
The high levels of Ba stemmed from local quarrying for Ba ores and/or use of Ba in paper/foundry/welding/textile/oil and gas well related industries, as well as from the use of Ba as an atmospheric aerosol spray for enhancing/refracting the signalling of radio/radar waves along military jet flight paths, missile test ranges, etc.
Elevated levels of ferrimagnetic metals in foodchains supporting the Guam cluster of neurodegeneration: Do metal nucleated crystal contaminents evoke magnetic fields that initiate the progressive pathogenesis ofneurodegeneration?
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Given the proximity of these sampling locations to the various military bases (see Map 1),
some association could exist between the high levels of these toxic metals and the polluted discharges
from the various military/aeroplane activities.
A mean stratospheric lifetime of each scattering particle of 5 years would imply a required injection rate of 2x106 tons annually, or a time-averaged injection rate of 60 kg/second, which is feasible to maintain e.g., with highly parallel exercising of existing fine-aerosol-dispersion technology.
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Highly concentrated
gels of such dyes – e.g., ones derived from low vapor pressure solvents which are ''glasses'' at stratospheric temperatures, such as the higher molecular weight perfluoroalkanes, may be expected to serve aptly as scattering units of still quite high mass-efficiency, ones for which the corresponding scattering system mass may be not much greater than that whose scattering units are caged alkali/alkaline-earth metal atoms: ~106 tons. Materials such as Al or Si, which auto-coat with durable, oxygen-impervious, high-integrity oxide-skins of only a few monolayers thickness, might be aptly employed in lieu of graphitic nanotubes for transparently jacketing such dye-loaded-glasses against stratospheric conditions. Alternatively, use of perfluorohydrocarbons as the dye-bearing material may obviate the need for any protective jacketing, as well as simplify the mass-production of such scattering units. The corresponding scattering systems may be the ones of choice within this preferred class of quasi-resonant scattering units, simply because the dye-bearing fluid could be stratospherically dispersed from an airplane tank as a suitably fine aerosol, the individual nanoparticles of which would quick-freeze at stratospheric temperatures and thereupon become photochemically inert over multi-year time-scales. While significantly greater total mass might have to be deployed to constitute such a scattering system, the simplicity and relatively low technical risk with which the system could be created and deployed might be an overriding consideration.
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
reply to post by Nefarious
Right - so Barium is a problem close to Barrium mininig and refining sites, and various other poisons are a problem close to military bases that use them - all at ground level and nothing to do with chemtrails at all....what a surprise
Originally posted by Nefarious
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
reply to post by Nefarious
Right - so Barium is a problem close to Barrium mininig and refining sites, and various other poisons are a problem close to military bases that use them - all at ground level and nothing to do with chemtrails at all....what a surprise
Do you like to ignore the parts of the material that are related, pull in the parts that aren't, and pretend only the parts that don't relate are the only parts discussed? Tsk tsk.
Barium is used in a wide array of military projects involving aerial dispersion
, enough so a dedicated thread would be appropriate.
Originally posted by unityemissions
The question I have is, if global warming is a myth, why seed the air to combat something that doesn't exist? I have been embarrassed lately to find that I may have been duped into believing a lie. Global warming. The carbon tax is definitely a bs idea, but is mans interactions with the environment truly effecting the temperature so much that we must pollute our skies?
To be honest, I'm a bit confused on this all right now.
Originally posted by Nefarious
[url=http://www.osti.gov/accomplishments/documents/fullText/ACC0229.pdf]Global Warming and Ice Ages:
I. Prospects for Physics-Based Modulation of Global Change[/url
Originally posted by soficrow
Hopefully, our global corporate government will quit warring between themselves long enough to save humanity - although that's obviously not on the priority list.
Originally posted by Aloysius the Gaul
Barium is used in a wide array of military projects involving aerial dispersion
such as what?
Originally posted by Gmoneycricket
I consider it geoengineering/chemtrails ( I added the /chemtrails because you guys get so upset, and have a weird attraction to the word), the basic tests needed to further the geoengineering agenda.