+ - scientists plan artificial volcano to cool climate-> 1
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tonyt3 writes "They plan to spray water into the air about 1,000 km high to mimic volcano particles. Note that the Norfolk in the story is in England, not the U.S."
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Interesting, but.. (Score:2)
Interesting story, but it fails to observe some obvious facts.
1km = 3,281 feet. They claim to use a water pump available at any hardware store. With a pump at ground level, and a balloon at 1km, it would require 1,420psi or about 9790 kPa. At your average hardware store (i.e., the ones I've been in, and looked at pumps), I don't recall anything near that.
The largest pump I could find on Lowes or Home Depot web sites was for up to 125 feet of lift. You might be saying "But my pressure washer does better t