writes:
But what is the model for the reflective sequin. Here I look to nature
also. I see wafts of the silky hair seeds of Cottonwood trees from my
backyard as they cruise on the slighest of air currents. They are tufts
of silky filaments and the reason the tree is named cottonwood.
Cottonwood is in the Populus genus. So I wonder, is this the finest
reflective material with the lightest of weight? I did mention
dandelion seeds but they are more weight.

I don't know the cottonwood, it's not native where I live. But I do see
the scotch thistle producing a lot of very lightweight fluffy fibre to
catch the wind and disperse its seeds. Before it is ready for release
it's packed very densely in capsules. Spider's web would be a light-
weight fibre. But I expect you'll be needing something that is resistant
to degradation under high ozone, extremely high UV conditions.
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)

John Savage wrote:

I don't know the cottonwood, it's not native where I live. But I do see
the scotch thistle producing a lot of very lightweight fluffy fibre to
catch the wind and disperse its seeds. Before it is ready for release
it's packed very densely in capsules. Spider's web would be a light-
weight fibre. But I expect you'll be needing something that is resistant
to degradation under high ozone, extremely high UV conditions.
--
John Savage (my news address is not valid for email)

Yes the Cottonwood seeds comes in pods before they open and release the
seeds.

Perhaps if thistle seeds become the very best reflectant, I suppose we
can grow them
in fields as a agriculture crop and the beauty of thistles is that you
never really have to plant them. Although your neighbors trying to grow
corn or beans may view your fields with disdain.

I suppose Pinatuba was a rather rare and unique volcano eruption in
that it emitted mostly sulfuric acid into the atmosphere and sulfuric
acid is a good reflectant of Sun rays. So that most other volcanoes do
not have this high amount of sulfuric acid release.

As to whether cottonwood seed or thistle seed or some grinded wood pulp
is as good or better than sulfuric acid as a reflector, I do not know.
Paper and seeds are certainly much safer than sulfuric acid in the air.

We need the material scientists and chemists to answer what is the best
reflectant that can be delivered by airplanes to solve global warming.

It probably is a material that ends up surprizing us all.

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

Gordon wrote:

How long has it been since the last major volcanic eruptions? Are
volcanic eruptions and the resultant sulfates spewed into the
atmosphere perhaps the primary cause of short term warm/cool
cycles?

If you really want to know, why not read a science book instead of
posting in usenet groups totally infested by rightwinger disinformation
posters who wqill tell you any lie that furthers their subversion of
America?

Here's some of the places that pay minimum wage to cheap whore interns
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I have had a chance to look at thistle seeds today and compare them to
cottonwood seed. The thistle seed has more weight so is not going to
float around as much. But the thistle may have in its favor more
reflective traits. The thistle is more solid white and the cottonwood
is very opaque. Another feature in favor of thistle is that it will not
bunch together. Also, the thistle is easy to agriculturally grow and
harvest unlike cottonwood trees. So how much farm land would it take to
amass 30 cubic kilometers of thistle seed capsules. A capsule is
before it opens and releases all the seeds inside.

It maybe the case that the best reflectant is a seed that is not
amenable to producing in some sort of mass production artificially.
Such as wood pulp ground into a Sequin Reflectant or cotton processed
into a Sequin Reflectant. We may find out that some seed is the finest
Sequin Relfectant, such as thistle, and that we cannot match it in some
industrial mass production substitute. We would have to await the
analysis of material scientists.

P.S. in the news tonight of the BBC was a report that the EU was going
to restrict airline flights for their CO2 emissions was the most
rapidly growing emissions causing global warming. Ironic, if instead,
the EU required the airlines to start cargo hauling Thistle Seed Sequin
and releasing in their flight apogee and thus the airline the main
solvers of all of global warming.

So where the airlines are now perceived as the worst villians of global
warming may turn around and be the group that actually solves global
warming as it delivers Sequin into the atmosphere.

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

wrote:
I have had a chance to look at thistle seeds today and compare them to
cottonwood seed. The thistle seed has more weight so is not going to
float around as much. But the thistle may have in its favor more
reflective traits. The thistle is more solid white and the cottonwood
is very opaque. Another feature in favor of thistle is that it will not
bunch together. Also, the thistle is easy to agriculturally grow and
harvest unlike cottonwood trees. So how much farm land would it take to
amass 30 cubic kilometers of thistle seed capsules. A capsule is
before it opens and releases all the seeds inside.

It maybe the case that the best reflectant is a seed that is not
amenable to producing in some sort of mass production artificially.
Such as wood pulp ground into a Sequin Reflectant or cotton processed
into a Sequin Reflectant. We may find out that some seed is the finest
Sequin Relfectant, such as thistle, and that we cannot match it in some
industrial mass production substitute. We would have to await the
analysis of material scientists.

P.S. in the news tonight of the BBC was a report that the EU was going
to restrict airline flights for their CO2 emissions was the most
rapidly growing emissions causing global warming. Ironic, if instead,
the EU required the airlines to start cargo hauling Thistle Seed Sequin
and releasing in their flight apogee and thus the airline the main
solvers of all of global warming.

So where the airlines are now perceived as the worst villians of global
warming may turn around and be the group that actually solves global
warming as it delivers Sequin into the atmosphere.


This is the old expression of solving two problems with one stonethrow.

Preliminary measures of thistle seeds in their pods is that when ripe
those seeds can encompass a volume of 0.5 to 1 cubic meters per thistle
plant. To solve Global Warming I need 30,000 cubic meters of thistle
seed.

Here I see an opportunity for poor countries in the world to grow the
thistle and have the poor farmers harvest and receive a Internationally
recognized fair price for their thistle seed harvesting which will be
delivered to the airports and airplanes which will emit in the apogee
of their flightpath.

Instead of Afghanistan growing illegal drug narcotics, replace them
with thistle seed to solve global warming.

Thistles are drought tolerant and so grow them where other crops cannot
grow.

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