[Digestion] H2O as a GHG?
Ken Calvert
renertech at xtra.co.nz
Fri Sep 14 05:57:27 EDT 2007
Frank, I am responding to your comment below, that water vapour is a
GreenHouse Gas? You said " I think it's silly to sequester CO2--but then
again, I think the fundamental cause of global warming are aviation
emissions of H20 into the greenhouse
layer"
Now as I understood the situation, water vapour might block IR re
radiation and heat the earth, but the moment that it condenses into clouds
it does a complete flip and reflects the initial radiation coming in and is
a potent antidote to our greenhouse anxieties. Yes we do need to mimimise
on the GHG nasties, especially the synthetic ones, but when the world
starts to get too hot, all we need to do is to run a few Stratocruisers at
sub-stratospheric heights and dump off a few extra tonnes of water droplets
to enhance our cloud cover and we can ward off the dreaded whatevers. I
have read somewhere about ships that could spray enough spray/spume into the
prevailing winds to make a serious impact on the GHG problem.
This Group is to do with anaerobic digestion, and I have no wish to
squew it off track.
What I am wondering however, is how much extra rainfall would we require to
dissolve out a bit more CO2 and minimise on that too? Rainwater is pH 5.7,
because of the dissolved CO2 that ends up back in the soil water and
dissolves surface limestones etc. Can someone point me to a webpage or
three that discusses these matters?
Thanks a lot, Ken C.
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