A lot of the health and ecosystems effects particularly may be affected by
the size and shape. Think asbestos and pm2.5s for comparisons
Have you compared these parameters to natural dust?
I prefer sulphur because it is natural in the stratosphere and predictable.
It is safe on rain out, too.
A
Hi David,
Couple of questions.
Generation of wind energy would increase the KE dissipation rate but this is
not an external forcing to the climate system. I agree there would be local
and regional climate changes but there should be no global mean warming.
Right?
The current KE dissipation rate
Dear David--I was going to ask a similar question to Bala¹s‹as this has
actually been an ongoing argument in some circles of the energy community,
with a scientific study by a Royal Society lead physicist in their energy
analysis talking about a limit based on extracting a share of the existing
If anything, an obstruction or impediment to fluid flows resulting from wind
energy extraction will tend to reduce heat redistribution, and that will
help restore the temperature differential between tropics and poles which
has been harmed by the polar amplification of global warming
Logically,
David,
Thanks for making this available. Note some earlier public opinion
focus group work on geoengineering done by UK NERC -
http://www.nerc.ac.uk/about/consult/geoengineering-dialogue-final-report.pdf.
This contains some very interesting results, particularly on the moral
hazard issue.
Josh
Mike Bala
A few answers:
First there is almost no link to geo here so we should probably take this off
this list. The only (weak link) is weather control, see:
http://www.atmos-chem-phys.org/10/769/2010/acp-10-769-2010.html
1. Bala said Generation of wind energy would increase the KE
A few further thoughts. The driving force for atmospheric motions is the
equator-pole temperature gradient‹energy continues to come in and decrease
entropy (that is, enhancing the gradient), and then the motions tend to
increase the entropy (trying to smooth out the gradient).
I guess what wind
