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- Fri Jan 22, 2010 8:06 am
- Forum: Design
- Topic: Graphene Conductor 1000x Better than Copper
- Replies: 16
- Views: 18166
- Thu Jan 21, 2010 11:47 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Solar and GHG effect in vertical temperature of the atmos.
- Replies: 131
- Views: 33667
Care to elucidate? I care to be elucidated. I know I over-simplified the rate of decrease of CO2. It would probably be e^-x, so that would make 1 century put the levels around 37% of what they are now (neglecting the rate at which nature puts CO2 into the atmosphere). Ignoring the timing and the exa...
- Thu Jan 21, 2010 10:54 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Solar and GHG effect in vertical temperature of the atmos.
- Replies: 131
- Views: 33667
[foreword: Take the following with a pinch of salt: lots of assumptions and simplifications.] I just ran some very quick numbers (BOE, or more accurately, python), and going by that 30000 million tonnes (per year?), us humans are pumping about 6ppm/year into the atmosphere: >>> 30000e6/(6370000**2*3...
- Tue Jan 19, 2010 12:39 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Cold Fusion Proven True by U.S. Navy Researchers
- Replies: 153
- Views: 53198
- Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:36 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Cold Fusion Proven True by U.S. Navy Researchers
- Replies: 153
- Views: 53198
First, are aqueous solutions actually required, or is that just the prevalent assumption? Second, amino acids have been found in nebulae. Might it be possible for certain amino acids (or more likely proteins) to "collect" water molecules they bump into, forming their own local supplies of aqueous so...
- Tue Jan 19, 2010 8:55 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Climate Summit Postponed
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1416
- Mon Jan 18, 2010 12:27 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Solar and GHG effect in vertical temperature of the atmos.
- Replies: 131
- Views: 33667
- Mon Jan 18, 2010 12:15 pm
- Forum: General
- Topic: Solar and GHG effect in vertical temperature of the atmos.
- Replies: 131
- Views: 33667
Looking at the CO2 levels in that chart, I got to wondering how uncomfortable humans would be in that 7000ppm period. It turns out, most of us wouldn't even notice (some of the more sensitive people might get a little sleepy, though). Wikipedeia Inspectapedia On a side note, I recently realized that...
- Mon Jan 18, 2010 9:58 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Solar and GHG effect in vertical temperature of the atmos.
- Replies: 131
- Views: 33667
- Sun Jan 17, 2010 4:41 am
- Forum: Administration
- Topic: new forum for politics
- Replies: 31
- Views: 47652
What rancor and vitriol? All I've seen is quite civilized discussions, which is rather impressive considering the inflammability of the topics being discussed. It seems to me that the only people complaining about the politics are those whose arguments never survive the first counter-argument. It mi...
- Sat Jan 16, 2010 7:48 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: There Have been Some Complaints
- Replies: 35
- Views: 24324
- Thu Dec 24, 2009 4:54 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Eat that GW believers!
- Replies: 669
- Views: 248785
Nah, Hansen is old hat ("father of AGW"). He's not in the pockets of anyone as far as I understand, [maniacal laughter elided] You are hilarious. We need to be able to use our own resources for energy, so I could care less if we got rid of fossil on other grounds. (bolding added) He's also rather s...
- Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:48 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Eat that GW believers!
- Replies: 669
- Views: 248785
I do think you should look at the IR absorption profile of CO2 in your handy Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, dear sir. High school science teachers (the fun kind) can put up an IR camera with a candle on the other side of a glass container, full of oxygen and nitrogen, and show that when CO2 is ...
- Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:15 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Greatest thing about this East coast storm.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3514
Yes, Queensland is typically very hot. Its "winter" is summer as far as I'm concerned. However, this winter (Jun-Sep), it was actually cold. Three years ago, there was an extreme cold snap (<10°C) in November or December (I don't remember just when, now). Probably my only summer in Brisbane that I a...
- Wed Dec 23, 2009 5:41 am
- Forum: General
- Topic: Greatest thing about this East coast storm.
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3514
Josh: my parents live in Australia (Queensland), and they were commenting on the unusually cold winter this year. They've been living there for 22 years and my mom grew up there. I haven't heard any comments about the summer (ie, now), though. As for the fires: they are nothing new. I heard plenty o...