I was looking for current uses of Diamond Dust and found that recently it is
used to make TV screens. Very interesting.

And if Earth's 1st AirConditioner is made of Diamond Dust that spans most of
the globe, then perhaps we can thence make it also a global TV as well as
cooling Earth.

And I suspect that to cool Earth the swathe of sky that needs Diamond Dust is
only a swathe around the Equator half way to the tropic-of-cancer and halfway
to the tropic-of-capricorn. There is no need to bath the entire globe with
diamond dust, only the portion that receives the most sunlight.

We will need to test whether diamond dust can stay somewhat in place in a
swathe. And whether it fills up the troposphere or bunches together.

Archimedes Plutonium
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Sun, 13 Mar 2005 02:27:14 -0600 Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
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We will need to test whether diamond dust can stay somewhat in place in a
swathe. And whether it fills up the troposphere or bunches together.

Considering the properties of diamonddust, it will not stay up there in the
troposphere long enough to do its work of sunlight reflection. As the Sunlight
photons strike a diamonddust molecule increases the momentum of the diamond dust
molecule to hurdle back to Earth ground. A way out of this predicament is to
install the diamonddust in the Lagrangian points of outer space where they stay
put in place. But also to look for a different material.

Consider black carbon of graphite dust. In effect this is what volcanoes do to
cool Earth is choke the upper atmosphere with a dust that absorbs sunlight and
prevents it from reaching the ground. But graphite in the troposphere compared
to diamonddust is a pollutant because as it eventually falls back to Earth it
poses a health risk in the breathing in of graphite carbon is somewhat akin to
coal miners breathing in dust.

And we have had plenty of examples of where volcanoes emitted dust to the upper
atmosphere and how long of a time it stayed up there to cool Earth. The 1990s
Philippine volcano cooled earth for just one summer, Pinatubo if my memory
serves and approx 1993 or thereabouts. So putting carbon graphite into the
troposphere would only last for that summer and would be an operation that
required a new refill to the troposphere every year.

So we have two different methods of science to be the Air Conditioner of Earth.
One is a reflective material such as diamond dust and the other is an absorbent
material of sunlight energy such as volcanic spew or carbon graphite.

I still think there is some CFC-variant that is benign and reflects sunlight
waiting to be discovered as Earth's 1st AirConditioner.

Archimedes Plutonium
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whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots
of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies

Sorry, I need to backtrack a little. I did not discuss the idea of Global Warming
being solved by Solar panelling that captures sunlight and produces electricity. I
should have done this to be thorough. I simply assumed it was too insignificant. So
we need the calculations.

What if every building in the world had to have solar panelling for its roof. What
if every road or highway had to have a solar panelled roof so that we capture
sunlight and convert it to electricity. Would that sunlight capture be enough to
cool Earth and save us from Global Warming? I assumed it would not because 2/3 of
the Earth surface is oceans and there is no practical-way to capture that sunlight
energy from the oceans. So the Solar panelling to a maximum would be that of all
buildings, all roads and perhaps even all desert climates would not be enough.

But it is worth a scientific calculation as to how much Solar and even Wind power
can capture of the Sunlight energy of Global Warming. It is scientifically true
that Solar and Wind help decrease global warming but can they ever solve Global
Warming. I doubt it. But we need those calculations.
Because it makes more sense to decrease Global Warming via Solar or Wind rather
than decrease Global Warming by stopping sunlight in the upper atmosphere from
reaching the ground.

Archimedes Plutonium
www.iw.net/~a_plutonium
whole entire Universe is just one big atom where dots
of the electron-dot-cloud are galaxies