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This is a not too well thought through idea originating from the Boone Picken's website. In "Continental Scale Rain Making," Mike Fallwell proposes to decrease the number of marine stratocumulus with his own version of the Flettner boats, this time blasting water 60ft into the air into the boundary layer and adding enough water vapor to the atmosphere to produce rain from storms that are already approaching. Problem #1 is the boundary layer is much higher than 60ft, although he says microwave sensors on buoys will identify the proper conditions using the index of refraction of humid air as a waveguide. The moist air rises to 10,000ft. Each boat will release 400 cubic miles of humid air each day or 20 million tons of water. Try and top that Salter! He then goes on to conclude that if 10% of the rain becomes biomass and 10% of the biomass becomes soil and 10% of the soil becomes carbonate, then 1 ton of water will remove 2lbs of carbon permanently from the atmosphere as well as produce 200lbs of biomass. Carbon credits will be sold based on the amount of biomass produced as determined by satellite imaging. Each boat can permanently remove 20,000 tons of carbon from the air per day! By this math, 1000 "boats" will remove nearly all manmade emissions each year. I guess we can skip the wind turbines thing, huh Boonie? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
