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Politics : Manmade Global Warming, A hoax? A Scam? or a Doomsday Cult?

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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (3259)11/14/2012 12:44:39 PM
From: Maurice Winn1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) of 4326
 
Damn. I just lost a whole post when I spastic clicked and crashed the browser. Take two. Mixing iron additive into propellor wash would not provide much mixing. Walter Freitag, the BP New Zealand chief chemist in 1978 demonstrated to our training course how two liquids in a beaker when stirred do not necessarily mix. After stirring sufficiently that it looked mixed, he heated the beaker to show striations [lines] in the liquid showing the two liquids had simply been stretched out rather than mixed properly.

The propellor would churn the additive up quite well in the immediate vicinity of the boat, but it wouldn't mix further afield.

Smoke on the other hand, spreads far and wide and would drop into the ocean forming a huge wide swathe of ocean which receives iron.

Don't worry about wear in the engines. MMT en.wikipedia.org was used as gasoline additive and gasoline engines are delicate with very fine tolerances. Ferrocene en.wikipedia.org is another additive used in engines. Maybe ferrocene would be economic chemistry to put into bunker fuel. Chemists could advise on cheaper alternatives to get through the combustion chamber and into the food chain in oceans.

Bunker fuel is made of dead rats, bricks and anything that falls out of the bottom of a refinery. Dirty great marine diesel engines are not delicate flowers like a Lexus high performance petrol hybrid motor. They have big jets of lubricant washing the cylinder walls. Some ferrocene in fuel won't be a problem.

Volcanoes certainly put a lot of stuff into the air, presumably including iron. Europe's airlines were out business for months because of a bit of activity in Iceland. A volcano wrecked the motors of an airliner over Indonesia [or thereabouts]. Maybe volcanoes have been quiet compared with a century or two ago. So oceans have gone into a quiet phase with reduced marine life. Perhaps it's not fishing which has depleted the oceans [other than in local areas].

There's no shortage of shell-making mineral in the oceans. Molluscs are not limited by shell-making minerals around NZ and I doubt they are anywhere. Limestone and other mineral supplies are everywhere. Not so much the iron supplies though.

Chlorophyll definitely eats CO2 so if the chlorophyll has gone, the CO2 consumption will reduce too.

Feed the oceans. Buy Mq's FFFFFF[tm], put it in bunker fuel and marine fuel oil.

Mqurice
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