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Zapping Contrails With Microwave Emitters
An anonymous reader writes "Dissipation of contrails with a powerful microwave beam aligned behind aircraft engines is being touted as a possible solution to help address air transport's effects on the climate. 'The remote heating of condensation nuclei could be achieved by applying electromagnetic radiation, such as microwaves,' says Cranfield University's Frank Noppel. 'Depending on assumptions made, calculation shows that the power required for such a device could be as little as 0.1% of the engine power.'"
No, they're doing us a favor by zapping them so that the government mind-control chemicals will no longer effect us. c.f. "They Live" =D
We should microwave _all_ the bad kinds of clouds then.... what could go wrong?
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Not to mention a little extra CO2 from the 0.1% extra fuel that needs to be burned to power the microwave. And the extra fuel needed to carry the thing.
Don't forget the extra fuel to carry the extra fuel.
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Probably due to all the politicians venting off a bunch of hot air. What is the thermal density of rhetoric and impotent american outrage?
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The extra fuel recursion gets to be insignificant pretty quickly...
My concern is the extra fuel necessary to carry all the smugness from the environmental lipservice of the passengers flying in the brand new iPriusplane.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
Zapping them so that they no longer effect us? Pssh, my source says that the microwaves are needed to ACTIVATE the next generation of chemically generated complacency.
Then again, the same guy swore Ron Paul was going to win the popular vote...