RE: Low cost method of lowering CO2 footprint of aviation.22 Oct 2021 15:03
Contrails are the one single measurable impact of human activity in the atmosphere because the contrails are a cascade effect rather like the coalescence mechanism during cloud creation. One 'seed' changes the charge distribution which changes the neighbour, then the next, then the next.
Before the big claims of reducing contrails can be verified, the climate change models need to include cloud cover in the models. Yup, that is a remarkable fact, most of the climate change models do not include cloud cover in the models. Yet reflection of radiation in both directions is cited as critical in assessing the extent of climate change (as in references to polar regions loosing reflectivity ect.). The article is also fundamentally wrong in a key point, " because CO2 is the most important greenhouse gas for most sectors." By several orders of magnitude, water vapour (not condensed cloud vapour) is much more important as a heat retaining blanket. Next is methane, again several orders of magnitude above co2, then various gases such as iodine. At the lowest impact level is co2. Well think it through, co2 is less than one tenth of one percent, it is so rare it is officially listed in the category 'other' in the composition of the atmosphere. Argon is the fourth gas listed.
Will this non-co2 method of managing the climate see the light of day? No. Because nobody will be making money out of selling turbines or solar cells or ev cars or light bulbs or new heaters or heat pumps or insulation. If money can not be made out of a solution, lots of money, it will not be considered.
40% of the electricity generated in the world is lost in transmission over national grids. Room temperature superconductors would solve that at a stroke and all the coal fired and oil burning power stations could be closed and co2 emission reduction targets blasted to pieces. When was the last time you heard of research in this area? Compared to billions, billions, in fact getting into trillions spent of climate change, how much is spent achieving room temperature superconductivity? Practically nothing. If there had been a proper research push to achieve RTSC when also this global warming nonsense kicked off, most of the power grids, if not all, would have been replaced by now. But then nobody would be making money selling solutions that require the consumption of resources, materials and energy which can be given a profit margin. Is the penny dropping with anybody yet? Are you beginning to see what this is really all about yet?
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