I'm mainly worried about salt-rain and dry deposition of salt in Arid regions. Don't want another Aral-sea dust bowl.
please provide references for any assurances given A 2008/12/15 Stephen Salter <[email protected]>: > Hi All > > Andrew is worried about salt and wants some costs. > > The salt weight we put up to offset double CO2 is about 1% of what is thrown > up by waves breaking, much of which is at the beach and will fall on land. > It is this which keeps the ocean salinity so constant. The only thing about > our spray is that the diameter is ideal for condensation nuclei. > > Victorian doctors knew that sea air was good for invalids. Polish doctors > noticed that people working in salt mines hardly ever had any lung disease. > Asthmatic children get cured for two years by deep breathing exercises in > salt mines. My guess is that the bugs are being killed by osmosis. Check out > http://www.thesaltpipe.co.uk/ > > If the cooling to spray-rate calculation I gave in the Phil Trans paper > works for water flowing to the Arctic we need six months operation of a > fleet of about 50 vessels of 300 tonnes displacement and 150 kW plant rating > costing £1 or £2 million each to remove the latent heat corresponding to one > season's missing ice. They can go off to reduce hurricanes for the other six > months. > > Stephen > > -- > Emeritus Professor of Engineering Design > School of Engineering and Electronics > University of Edinburgh > Mayfield Road > Edinburgh EH9 3JL > Scotland > tel +44 131 650 5704 > fax +44 131 650 5702 > Mobile 07795 203 195 > [email protected] > http://www.see.ed.ac.uk/~shs > > > > > Andrew Lockley wrote: >> >> One of the aspects I'm struggling with in the article is to make >> meaningful comparisons of the costs, risks, feasibility and timescales >> on the ideas. If anyone can help me with that, it would be very >> useful. Just send me the info and I will collate it. >> >> I am particularly interested by a few things I've discovered whilst >> doing the research >> >> Albedo modifications on roof and pavement materials is very cheap and >> seems to work quite well, although it can only do so much >> Sulphur in the stratosphere seems to be very dangerous for ozone and >> of all the techniques on offer it seems to me to be the riskiest >> no-one seems to have done any research on all the salt that might end >> up blowing around from the spray ships. >> adding limestone to seawater, or removing hydrochloric acid from the >> sea, seems to be a promising technique, but i;ve not heard much about >> it (especially the latter) >> >> does anyone know of any techniques i've missed off the lists? I'm >> particularly keen to add more stuff in the 'other' category. >> >> I've not finished 'criticisms' or 'implementation issues', so if >> someone could help me with that I'd appreciate it. I've got some >> ideas, but if someone gets there first that would save me the bother. >> >> There are a few articles that people have refered to that haven't been >> created on wikipedia yet. Mainly they are about people. I don't know >> these people, so can someone that does please do a page for them. I'm >> not very interested in people so I won't be doing this myself. (no >> offence to any of those people that are on this list - some folks are >> 'people people' and I'm not. it's nothing personal) >> >> Further, if anyone knows how to add images from wikicommons to >> wikipedia, could they please explain it to me. Do you create a link >> or download and then re-upload the file? >> >> A >> >> 2008/12/14 John Nissen <[email protected]>: >> >>> >>> Thanks Andrew for the new entry: >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geoengineering >>> The more people refer to this URL, the higher ranking in Google. >>> >>> It's fascinating about "pykrete", refs [17][18] - a composite word from >>> Pyke >>> the inventor and concrete. Pykrete is mostly ice, but has properties >>> remarkably like concrete. >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pykrete >>> >>> If we could somehow mix ice with sawdust or similar fibrous material, to >>> prevent the ice melting so fast in summer... Another geoengineering >>> technique for the inventing - to help save the Arctic sea ice! >>> >>> Cheers from Chiswick, >>> >>> John >>> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Lockley" >>> <[email protected]> >>> To: "geoengineering" <[email protected]> >>> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2008 5:15 PM >>> Subject: [geo] new wikipedia page >>> >>> >>> >>>> >>>> there's now a proper geoengineering page on wikipedia. i've deleted >>>> the old section in planetary engineering, but wikipedia can't tell >>>> that i've done the split so it treats it as vandalism. very annoying! >>>> >>>> if anyone would like to add new stuff and references, it's very easy >>>> >>>> to add references, just paste them into the text at the relevant point >>>> and add <ref> before and </ref> after >>>> >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > > The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in > Scotland, with registration number SC005336. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. 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