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It states that half of aircraft pollution is from contrails made of aircraft soot. I’d like to see the literature and discovery of aircraft soot. As an engineer who has built aircraft, I find this fascinating. I would like to measure my amount of soot. How does one go about measuring how much soot I have? Obviously if my exhaust ports are black that’s bad but I’m genuinely curious about this as I’ve always assumed “b…
It states that half of aircraft pollution is from contrails made of aircraft soot. I’d like to see the literature and discovery of aircraft soot. As an engineer who has built aircraft, I find this fascinating. I would like to measure my amount of soot. How does one go about measuring how much soot I have? Obviously if my exhaust ports are black that’s bad but I’m genuinely curious about this as I’ve always assumed “b…
It’s totally ok to be skeptical of the claims. I can’t make a judgement on them as I know even less than you might. But that’s not a reason to doubt that human’s environment impact matters and that maybe part of the solution is for those of us with access to 2day delivery for everything and cheap flights live a teeny bit more like those who don’t.
It states that half of aircraft pollution is from contrails made of aircraft soot. I’d like to see the literature and discovery of aircraft soot. As an engineer who has built aircraft, I find this fascinating. I would like to measure my amount of soot. How does one go about measuring how much soot I have? Obviously if my exhaust ports are black that’s bad but I’m genuinely curious about this as I’ve always assumed “b…
As a bonus consideration it might be better if they were made of soot, it would be ugly but water vapor is a tremendous greenhouse gas, several times as potent as CO2, soot blocking the sun might have more of a neutral effect, And related, we worked hard to get sulfur out of our fuels but sulfur dioxide turns out to be a negative greenhouse gas, it has a net cooling effect, I am not saying we should deliberately add sulfur back in, the downsides are too great, but it is an interesting bit of irony.
Amazing visualisation, an excellent tool. Are there other sites that can suggest how much of an issue it is, and how much flight plan tweaking could improve this. Remember kids a 1° C rise in temperature can mean 7% more water vapour in the air, and with water vapour being a greenhouse gas itself this can cause heating and holding yet more water.
It states that half of aircraft pollution is from contrails made of aircraft soot. I’d like to see the literature and discovery of aircraft soot. As an engineer who has built aircraft, I find this fascinating. I would like to measure my amount of soot. How does one go about measuring how much soot I have? Obviously if my exhaust ports are black that’s bad but I’m genuinely curious about this as I’ve always assumed “b…
Fly less. Is waiting a week for a package really that big of a deal? Is traveling less really that much to ask? It’s totally ok to be skeptical of the claims. I can’t make a judgement on them as I know even less than you might. But that’s not a reason to doubt that human’s environment impact matters and that maybe part of the solution is for those of us with access to 2day delivery for everything and cheap flights li…
It states that half of aircraft pollution is from contrails made of aircraft soot. I’d like to see the literature and discovery of aircraft soot. As an engineer who has built aircraft, I find this fascinating. I would like to measure my amount of soot. How does one go about measuring how much soot I have? Obviously if my exhaust ports are black that’s bad but I’m genuinely curious about this as I’ve always assumed “b…
Fly less. Is waiting a week for a package really that big of a deal? Is traveling less really that much to ask? It’s totally ok to be skeptical of the claims. I can’t make a judgement on them as I know even less than you might. But that’s not a reason to doubt that human’s environment impact matters and that maybe part of the solution is for those of us with access to 2day delivery for everything and cheap flights li…
It states that half of aircraft pollution is from contrails made of aircraft soot. I’d like to see the literature and discovery of aircraft soot. As an engineer who has built aircraft, I find this fascinating. I would like to measure my amount of soot. How does one go about measuring how much soot I have? Obviously if my exhaust ports are black that’s bad but I’m genuinely curious about this as I’ve always assumed “b…
Night trains
It states that half of aircraft pollution is from contrails made of aircraft soot. I’d like to see the literature and discovery of aircraft soot. As an engineer who has built aircraft, I find this fascinating. I would like to measure my amount of soot. How does one go about measuring how much soot I have? Obviously if my exhaust ports are black that’s bad but I’m genuinely curious about this as I’ve always assumed “b…
The guide presented by the map gives a very good explanation on how contrail formation can be mitigating by altering the course of flights to reduce the formation in areas where it will have the most impact. This is based on a recent study that showed contrail avoidance could be one of the most cost-effective methods of reducing warming that we know of.
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/2634-4505/ad310c
Simon Clark did a good video on this recently:
I'm not following the logic why contrails cause net warming. Why nuclear blasts - that also introduce lots of particles in atmosphere cause a cooling effect - "nuclear winter"?