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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: average joe who wrote (25679)	11/6/2009 5:00:15 PM
From: Maurice Winn	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

"Jetozone" was my invention in 1987 to solve the problem of ozone depletion due to CFCs. The idea was to dose jet fuel with ozone enhancing materials and jettison it into the stratosphere. It wasn't needed because the switch from CFCs solved the problem if it was in fact a problem to be solved. Balloons and long hoses is an expensive and inefficient way to spread sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere. The way to do it is put sulphur in jet fuel and burn it in airliners which spreads it everywhere really fast and replaces CO2 emissions from jet fuel. Sulphur is an excellent turbine fuel and it's cheap because it's a waste byproduct of crude oil processing. Sulphuric acid plants in fertilizer works use elemental sulphur as turbine fuel, then use the exhaust to produce sulphuric acid. The turbines generate electricity. Sulphur is a problem in fuels because when the engine is switched off, the dew point of water is reached and the acids then corrode the equipment. Also, the exhaust from industrial equipment is full of sulphur oxides which unacceptable due to acid rain, so scrubbers are needed to remove it. Plus it's unpleasant to inhale sulphur oxides. So sulphur oxides at sea level are unacceptable. Perhaps at stratospheric levels it would be okay. Since there's not much cloud in the stratosphere, the sulphur oxides would hang around for months or maybe years. At lower altitudes, it's stripped from the air in weeks due to being soluble in water, coming down as acidic rain. Jet engines could take sulphur right now. Just pour it into the fuel. Perhaps a bit of testing would be needed to ensure there are no glitches. The good thing about sulphur as a Global Warming preventer is that its half life in the atmosphere is short, and the environmental consequences of it are low. Also, it can be done quickly, if a problem arises, rather than now with huge kleptocratic cap and trade and carbon tax costs for a problem which might turn out to be reglaciation to ice age rather than tipping point runaway global cooking and 20 metres of sea level rise with daily Katrinas. Or there might be simply no issue either way [the outcome I think most likely] Mqurice