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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread
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To: maceng2 who wrote (22429)7/22/2008 2:02:59 PM
From: Thomas A Watson  Read Replies (1) of 36918
 
Interesting, inspired by the idea of a cold ray, I went looking for whatthehellisitcalled.photography that sees different air density with paraboloic mirrors. like the what's name. So I found another treasure of cool ideas. Now if you move the mirrors farther and farther apart will one start seeing the effect of the greenhouse gases. Will 100x CO2 make a difference. No one does not want to show the a trace gas has a trace effect in the real world. In the world of magic AGW physics the illusion can be maintained. CO2, the super greenhouse molecule, stronger than thousands of H2O molecules.

This is the save of a google cache, I get a 404 to the original link. my saved link e6.ath.cx
that is also toms.homeip.net

One experiment is ..

Beam of Cold
Two parabolic mirrors are placed a couple of meters apart. The instructor puts a thermometer in the focus of one of the mirrors, and a heat source (a light bulb) in the focus of the other, and observe that the thermometer reads an increase in temperature. This result is trivial and expected by students. Now replace the heat source with a cold source (copper ball filled with liquid nitrogen) and notice the thermometer shows a decrease in temperature. Instructor can ask students if we are dealing with a "beam of cold", and discuss the second law of thermodynamics. This demonstartion can explain some phenomena (for example, morning frost, etc.)


Note: Mirrors should be precisely aligned. For alignment look through the stainless steel tube and make sure you see the focus of the thermometer in the focus of the distant mirror. For reading the temperature, use the big screen LCD thermometer.
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