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Originally Posted by vorblesnak
BTB: Here is a recent article in Rolling Stone on line ..
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/sto...he_world/print
This covers the basics of the sulfur particle proposal and it's introduction. It is in the somewhat mainstream media now.
Would high sulfur coal necessarily do the same thing for us? I don't think the delivery from a smoke stack would go high enough. We got to get it up there a few miles.
David Davis
Toledo, OR 97391 |
That is my take too. Burning high sulfur coal mostly puts sulfur dioxide into the lower atmosphere, where it contributes to acid rain. You need to get it into the stratosphere to have a cooling effect. Volcanoes are pretty good at doing this.
It is similar to the difference between ozone in the lower atmosphere (smog bad) and the upper atmosphere (stopping UV good).