[geo] Re: delivering aerosols

2008-12-11 Thread Oliver Wingenter
Dear John, We know that the more water rich a sulfate aerosol is, the faster the recycling of Cl reserviors is on their surfaces. But do we know surface/water properties of these other materials? Is anyone like Maggie Tolbert, Dave Hansen or Mario Molina working on this? Ideally a particle

[geo] Re: delivering aerosols

2008-12-11 Thread Oliver Wingenter
Dear Alvia, Increases in diffuse lighting would make passive solar heating and cooling less effective in two ways. One, less direct solar radiation strikes the south facing glass where it is designed to enter and be stored by the thermal mass. Even the total light entering the passive solar

[geo] Re: delivering aerosols

2008-12-11 Thread Alvia Gaskill
You're correct. I confused PV with passive solar. PV is considered active solar and there are some plans to operate PV using solar concentrators, so all this gets very confusing quickly. There is also only scattered (pardon) information on diffuse solar, as it has not been the focus