[geo] Testing brightwater

2011-04-20 Thread Andrew Lockley
Hi It seems to me that Brightwater is suitable for 'homebrew' testing, and indeed would greatly benefit from this work. Water bodies are very variable by salinity, choppiness, cloudiness, temperature, etc. Is it possible to create a set of standard tests which can be conducted by people to test

Re: [geo] Testing brightwater

2011-04-20 Thread Michael Hayes
Andrew, Bright Water is not a new concept. It was proposed as a means to reduce hull drag some time ago. Funding is the issue On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Andrew Lockley andrew.lock...@gmail.comwrote: Hi It seems to me that Brightwater is suitable for 'homebrew' testing, and indeed

Re: [geo] On what research I would suggest

2011-04-20 Thread Andrew Lockley
I'm not seeing much agreement between this graph and others I've seen. The graph below seems almost bistable in behavior. The graph at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geologic_temperature_record#Overall_view tells a very different story, it seems - and this concurs with other sources I've seen.

[geo] CDR on PBS

2011-04-20 Thread Alvia Gaskill
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Re: [geo] Testing brightwater

2011-04-20 Thread Andrew Lockley
Michael, I'm not saying the production of microbubbles is a new idea. However, I'm not aware of any programme of testing of the behaviour of such bubbles in real waters from around the world. The key issue is residence time, and we simply don't know how that will be affected by the myriad types