Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 09/02/2011 7:43:41 AM PDT by Red Badger
At 60,000 feet, as they propose, the pressure is 26,000 psi.
That’s about half the pressure of the chamber of a 50 BMG rifle at the peak firing pressure.
An ordinary carwash pump developes over 2,000 psi, enough for 3/4 mile or more.
The ballons will be destroyed by weather and the theory of AGW is crap! It is a scam and a hoaxl to fleece the makers and pay the moochers.
a giant balloon a half mile into the sky pulling with it a water hose that will then spray water pumped from the ground, into the airThat would have to be A) some freakin' strong hose, B) some big-assed balloon , and C) some powerful freakin' water pump.
I guess these Brits have never heard of crop dusters or flying tankers.......
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Build several urban based ground separation units in each major metro area, to collect ground level ozone, then pump & eject it into the upper stratospheric levels.
They can reduce ground level ozone pollution, without rewriting the rules; “replenish/repair” the (ozone was never there, it isn't missing) ozone hole; and blow tons of money, employing lots of moonbats.
Just before (say, at the 85-90% complete stage) EPA could pay Greenpeace & Sierra Club to sue them to shut it down due to some unforeseen “environmental damage” of some sort: a win-win-win-win-win for the lunatics!
The ship will have a large coal-fired generating plant to power the pumps, the heat tapes on the pipe, and the nozzle heaters.
If they manage to balance the system correctly, it will cancel out the CO^2 created to keep it running.
They can think up their own solution to the pressure & flow rate problems.
Unfortunately, I can just hear them a DU ‘solving’ the pumping problems by invoking the surface-stratosphere pressure differentional to suck the water up the pipe like a straw; and by using LOTS of tiny pipes to act as capillaries. I make myself laugh just imagining them.
The key phrase:
“is being backed by the British government”
I like the idea, from a purely scientific stand point. It would be interesting to see what happens.
:’D
Uh oh! The planners forgot a small detail?
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