Originally posted by Xtrozero
Have you ever seen a jet vapor actually grow into a cloud other than the thin line that we see? When you are talking about a small amount, how diluted
does it become as it is dumped out of the jet exhaust at 35,000 feet before it hits the ground?
Yes, quite often... and I assume you are implying that large amounts must be in the fuel... as I said before, from my understanding it's small
amounts and will accumilate, as stated by other posters, over a period of time.
I've seen some of the "contrails" floating downwards as well before hitting thelayer with alot of vapor, then spreading out.
I would also like to know a few other things too. One of them (being an ex jet engine mechanic too) is the turbine area is around 1000c or more, and
so how does this affect those chemicals? The last part is if jet fuel had particles in it then there would be a good chance that these particals would
form carbon or other material in the hot sections of these engines and start to close off the very small cooling air holes along with other
issues.
I'm not a chemist, nor have I ever had my hands on a jet engine... can't answer that except that I am pretty sure, knowing how long they've been
working on cloud seeding, that someone else has figured out a way to do it and keep engines clean. I didn't invent the stuff and have never even
attempted such a thing myself, so no answer for you.
When you start to talk about a chemical that is burned through the engine at very high temps and not sprayed this opens up a whole new direction of
dialog. Not that I am disagreeing at this point.
Understandable. At that temperature, one could assume silver would be broken away from any bond it may have and melt to mechanical parts that are
cooler... I don't know that myself though. As far as my assumption, I would guess they have it in some kind of suspension with another chemical and
they actually use the heat itself to create the proper product they need. Simple as taking a pill in which the chemicals are converted into a useful
drug by the body. The doctors thought ahead and figure out a way to make the delivery more efficient by letting the body create it's own chemicals
from the ingested ones. Really, it's not that far fetched.
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I do know (sorry if i got off topic a bit with the contrails), that my mom said they had a tank on a smaller plane, and they sprayed chemicals much
like a crop duster, only alot higher in the air. She said they would spray over Centennial (right at the base of the mountains), so I think they were
hitting the air as it is just dropping over the mountains so the clouds would have time to accumilate and condense over the Laramie valley...
otherwise, I think the clouds would end up dumping on the summit on the other side if they seeded them later.
[edit on 20-11-2007 by Earthscum]