As my previous (slightly ranty) list was well received, here's a list in response to this request.
What's the carrying capacity of CDR reservoirs? What's the albedo impact of biochar? Does condensation onto existing particles set a practical upper limit on max forcing from SO2 injection? Does direct injection of SO3 plume actually result in the particle size distribution expected? Do MCB ships just cause a short lived bank of cold wet fog, as some models suggest? What's the effect of large scale afforestation on : VOCs, albedo, water, clouds Why has nobody tested brightwater? What effect on forcing does the switch to low sulphur marine bunker fuels have? Does pollution control in Asian industry and cooking stoves result in large forcing changes? What effect does SRM-induced thermal change in the boundary layer have on water and methane transport into the Stratosphere, and subsequent wetting? Is moral hazard real, or is negative moral hazard more likely? I might add to this as I think of more stuff. A Folks, I am supposed to give a keynote talk at CEC14 in two weeks. For this talk, I would like to try to develop a list of research problems in solar geoengineering and a list of suspect memes. For this email thread, I would like to ask 1a. What is an important tractable research problems in solar geoengineering? 1b. Why is this problem important? 1c. What can be done to address this problem? Thoughtful responses would be most appreciated. If you want to start discussion about a research topic, please do so in a separate thread so that this thread can be easily used to develop a list. Thanks, Ken _______________ Ken Caldeira Carnegie Institution for Science Dept of Global Ecology 260 Panama Street, Stanford, CA 94305 USA +1 650 704 7212 [email protected] http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab https://twitter.com/KenCaldeira Assistant: Dawn Ross <[email protected]> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
