I had a similar idea: http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering/msg/ae7c94be3baddc98
On Dec 17, 8:27 am, Brennan Jorgensen <[email protected]> wrote: > The global audience has witnessed the unfortunate and dire chaos > that has recently transpired in Copenhagen. I started contemplating > the possible implications of Chaos Theory and how it manifests itself > in the natural world. Can we use chaos as a solution to climate > change? Perhaps we can. Chaos theory can tell us that a butterfly > flapping its wings in the savannahs of Senegal can theoretically cause > a transcending “ripple effect” great enough to form a hurricane in the > Atlantic. I now suspect that Chaos Theory may provide a much needed > focal point for geoengineering deployments. I have viewed satellite > imagery from the West African coast and have often been struck at how > seemingly small dust storms crossing the Western Sahara can rapidly > expand into “massive particle snowball effects” with dust clouds > becoming large enough to become discernable in satellite imagery. > Remarkably, on some occasions, we have even witnessed an orangish tint > visible here in the Florida atmosphere as a result of fine Saharan > dust blown from over 5,000 miles away. Similarly, low pressure > tropical cloud formations forming off of West Africa typically between > a 15-25 degree latitude can, of course, develop into major hurricanes > by the time they reach the vicinity of Florida. These cyclonic heat > engines are undoubtedly the greatest single natural extractors of heat > from the equatorial Atlantic and Gulf Stream waters that also, in > turn, diminish the magnitude of heat transported to the Arctic. If > the frequency of these initial embryonic cloud “seedlings” could be > increased over key land areas in Western Africa while reducing the > naturally unpredictable intensity of cyclonic storm developments, a > more homogenized cloud cooling “belt” could benefit both the climate > and civilization. This could also offer a more favorable and viable > “sending off point” for SRM involving cloud seeding, etc. This, I > believe can also be comfortably attained within a synergistic > framework involving DESERTEC/ AGRA and or any other organization. > Strategically situated, brine aquaculture/ evaporation reservoirs > (around 100-km2) can promote an increased frequency of convective > cloud formations especially in the key “storm nuclei zones” such as in > Senegal and Mauritania. The evaporated, white salt flats continue to > provide an atmospheric cooling effect that increases the relative > humidity and cloud cover of dry subtropical air masses arriving from > the interior deserts to the coast. Moreover, large dust storm events > could also pick up some of this “salt dust” and disperse it into > reflective marine or cumulous cloud formations off the coast. Clouds > transported by the Trade Winds progress westward to the eventual Gulf > Stream. As a preliminary step, generating some computer models on the > potential effect of increasing cloud and salt dust formations off of > West Africa might produce some interesting results for cooling the > Gulf Stream while lessening the hurricane risk along the eastern > Atlantic. -- 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.
