100,000 flights per day at altitudes from 25,000 to 40,000 ft, mandating a tiny amount of sulfur in the aviation fuel could probably halt and reverse global warming.
The point of this post is to make you think - there's a 100,000 flights every day at high altitude. They will be burning and spitting stuff into the atmosphere.
Is there some compound or substance that can be included that would dramatically counter-act CO2 greenhouse effect?
The answer is: almost certainly, yes. What are its second order effects? Is Sulfur Dioxide the best choice? These are important questions to determine. All we know right now is - SO2 had a dramatic effect on warming when it was emitted by ships.
Any which way you slice it, the fastest way to deploy a solution to an industrial scale problem is to use industrial scale distribution. Planting a tree and recycling a pop can will make you feel better.
If you want to actually change the world, change industry.
This was all a pretty off-hand tweet but it turns out Scott Kirby, CEO of United Airlines, suggested SO2 injection into aviation fuel as a climate change tool last month in an internal all-hands meeting.
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There are only a few dozen radiation hot cells in the US that are licensed to handle highly active materials
You need meter-thick lead-glass windows, remote handling robotics, concrete, tons of steel
INL's Sample Prep Laboratory was the first one in 50 years, in 2025
We usually think of fissionable materials as releasing particles or nuclei, like alpha particles, electrons, or neutrons, which bounce around in material slowing down
However some isotopes get left with nucleons in an excited state, and when they 'relax' they emit x-ray photons
Up until Minnesota the largest medicare fraud in history was run by....
A guy who used oxycontin and fentanyl to get patients addicted so they remained in his nursing homes.
Trump pardoned him in 2020.
$1.3 billion in fraud by one person.
Presidential Pardon.
People who think this is 'whataboutism' are too partisan-addled by years of divisive thinking. Fraud is everywhere, supported by all political parties, that you will not get justice for these crimes against the public unless we investigate and expose them ourselves.
*sentence commuted. I don't know why you'd commute this sentence. Seems like a pretty horrible person.