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John Sandford is the pseudonym of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist John Camp. Camp was born in 1944 and was raised in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. He received his B.A. in American Studies from the University of Iowa, and received his first training as a journalist and reporter when he was in Korea for 15 months working
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After the army, Camp spent 10 months working for the Cape Girardeau South East Missourian newspaper before returning to the University of Iowa for his Masters in Journalism. From 1971 to 1978, he worked as a general assignment reporter for the Miami Herald, covering killings and drug cases, among other beats, with his colleague, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Edna Buchanan.
In 1978, Camp joined the St. Paul Pioneer Press as a features reporter. He became a daily columnist at the newspaper in 1980. In the same year, he was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for an article he wrote on the Native American communities in Minnesota and North Dakota and their modern day social problems. In 1986, Camp won the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for a series of articles on the farm crisis in the Midwest.
With his long running "Prey" series, Sandford has displayed a brilliance of characterization and pace that has earned him wide praise and made the books national bestsellers. He has been hailed as a "born storyteller" (San Diego Tribune), his work as "the kind of trimmed-to-the-bone thriller you can't put down" (Chicago Tribune), and Davenport as "one of the most engaging (and iconoclastic) characters in contemporary fiction." (Detroit News)
He's also the author of two non-fiction books, one on plastic surgery and one on art. He is the principal financial backer of a major archeological project in the Jordan Valley of Israel, with a website at www.rehov.org In addition to archaeology, he is deeply interested in art (painting) and photography. He both hunts and fishes. He has two children, Roswell and Emily, and one grandson, Benjamin. His wife, Susan, died of metastasized breast cancer in May, 2007.
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Volume 98, Issue 3, 01 August 2005
Phase-matched generation of a terahertz surface wave by a subluminous optical strip98(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1999828View Description Hide Description
We show that a weakly focused ultrashort laser pulse with tilted intensity front can efficiently excite a terahertz surface wave via phase-matched optical rectification at the surface of a semiconductor. The surface wave is excited by a strip of nonlinear polarization moving along the semiconductor surface with subluminous velocity. The amplitude and power of the radiated surface wave are calculated. For a optical pulse with a peak intensity of , we estimate the energy conversion coefficient to be at the surface of GaAs. The direct excitation of surface waves at terahertz frequencies can be particularly attractive for terahertz spectroscopy of semiconductor surfaces.
Displacement sensing using evanescent tunneling between guided resonances in photonic crystal slabs98(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1999031View Description Hide Description
Using both analytic theory and first-principles finite-difference time-domain simulations, we introduce a displacement sensing mechanism using photonic crystal slabs coupled in the near-field regime. In this regime, the operating characteristics are completely different from conventional resonant optical sensors, and high sensitivity can be obtained without the use of highly reflecting mirrors. This enables high displacement sensitivity combined with low sensitivity to wavelength and to structural disorders, thereby simplifying operation and fabrication of high-sensitivity displacement sensors.
On the resonances and polarizabilities of split ring resonators98(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2006224View Description Hide Description
In this paper, the behavior at resonance of split ring resonators (SRRs) and other related topologies, such as the nonbianisotropic SRR and the broadside-coupled SRR, are studied. It is shown that these structures exhibit a fundamental resonant mode (the quasistatic resonance) and other higher-order modes which are related to dynamic processes. The excitation of these modes by means of a properly polarized time varying magnetic and/or electric fields is discussed on the basis of resonator symmetries. To verify the electromagnetic properties of these resonators, simulations based on resonance excitation by nonuniform and uniform external fields have been performed. Inspection of the currents at resonances, inferred from particle symmetries and full-wave electromagnetic simulations, allows us to predict the first-order dipolar moments induced at the different resonators and to develop a classification of the resonances based on this concept. The experimental data, obtained in SRR-loaded waveguides, are in agreement with the theory and point out the rich phenomenology associated with these planar resonant structures.
Ultrasound generated by a femtosecond and a picosecond laser pulse near the ablation threshold98(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1999827View Description Hide Description
We have investigated high-frequency ultrasound generated by single laser pulses in thin aluminum foils as a function of the laser fluence. Laser-pulse durations of and were used to compare the ultrasound generated in two very different regimes: thermoelastic and ablation. The measured rear-surface displacement induced by the ultrasound pulse is similar after propagation through the foils for the two laser-pulse durations in the fluence range of . For fluences greater than the ablation threshold (0.25 and for the and pulses, respectively), the ultrasound amplitude generated by the laser pulse is increased significantly due to absorption of laser energy by the ablating plasma. This is not observed for the laser pulse since ablation is produced well after the laser-pulse irradiation of the target. The measured surface displacement as a function of laser fluence is compared to the calculations of a one-dimensional fluid code for both laser-pulse durations. The model calculations agree in many ways with the experimental results, but some discrepancies are observed.
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Microwave diagnostics of small plasma objects98(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1996835View Description Hide Description
We suggest an approach for using microwave radiation in collisional, weakly ionized plasma diagnostics when plasma dimensions are relatively small compared with the microwave wavelength. We show that in this case the microwavediagnostics can be based on the measurement of the radiation scattered by an oscillatingplasma dipole, similar to the Rayleigh scattering of an atom in light. Examples considered show possibilities of obtaining the decaying plasma parameters (time dependence of charge density and information about loss rates, for instance) from the measuredscattered signal.
Double-pulse machining as a technique for the enhancement of material removal rates in laser machining of metals98(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1996834View Description Hide Description
Several nanosecond 0.53-μm laser pulses separated by several tens of nanoseconds have been shown to significantly enhance (three to ten times) material removal rates while minimizing redeposition and heat-affected zones. Economic, high-quality, high-aspect ratio holes in metals are produced as a result. A phenomenological model whereby the second laser pulse interacts with the ejecta produced by the first laser pulse and in close proximity to the material surface is consistent with the observations. Incident laser wavelengths of 1.05 and 0.35 μm also benefit from this pulse format.
Study of the sputtered Cu atoms and ions in a hollow cathode glow discharge using a hybrid model98(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2005381View Description Hide Description
The role of the Cu atoms sputtered from the cathode material in a cylindrical hollow cathode discharge (HCD) and the corresponding ions are studied with a self-consistent model based on the principle of Monte Carlo(MC) and fluid simulations. In order to obtain a more realistic view of the discharge processes, this model is coupled with other submodels, which describe the behavior of electrons, fast Ar atoms, ions, and Ar metastable atoms, also based on the principles of MC and fluid simulations. Typical results are, among others, the thermalization profile of the Cu atoms, the fast Cu atom, the thermal Cu atom and ion fluxes and densities, and the energy distribution of the ions. It was found that the contribution of the ions to the sputtering was the most significant, followed by the fast Ar atoms. At the cathode bottom, there was no net sputtered flux but a net amount of redeposition. Throughout the discharge volume, at all the conditions investigated, the largest concentration of Cu atoms was found in the lower half of the HCD, close to the bottom. Penning ionization was found the main ionization mechanism for the Cu atoms. The ionization degree of copper atoms was found to be in the same order as for the argon atoms .
Polarization-resolved measurements of picosecond laser-ablated plumes98(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2006973View Description Hide Description
We discuss the ablation of aluminumplasma using picosecond pulsed laser in vacuum and in ambient atmosphere of nitrogen. The plume dynamics of picosecond and nanosecond laser-ablated plumes in ambient atmosphere is discussed. The degree of polarization is measured using optical emission spectroscopy for the transition at . Strong anisotropy is observed using picosecond laser pulse as compared to nanosecond laser pulse.
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Improved quality factors of magneto-optical imaging calculated for heteroepitaxial iron garnet multilayers98(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1953868View Description Hide Description
We suggest to modify the usual irongarnetsensorfilm for magneto-optical imaging by introducing a Bragg mirror consisting of heteroepitaxial garnet layers between the substrate and sensorfilm. For the example situation of a hexagonal vortex lattice in a type II superconductor, we show by calculation that the quality factors of image contrast and optical efficiency can be higher for the proposed heteroepitaxial garnet multilayers than for the single-layer garnetfilms currently in use as sensorfilms.
Size and emission wavelength control of quantum wires98(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1996307View Description Hide Description
For a certain heteroepitaxial system, the optical properties of self-assembled nanostructures basically depend on their size. In this work, we have studied different ways to modify the height of quantum wires (QWrs) in order to change the photoluminescence emission wavelength. One procedure consists of changing the QWr size by varying the amount of InAs deposited. The other two methods explored rely on the control of exchange process, in one case during growth of InAs on InP for QWr formation and in the other case during growth of InP on InAs for QWr capping. The combination of the three approaches provides a fine tuning of QWr emission wavelength between 1.2 and at room temperature.
Nucleation of pores in brittle solids under load98(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1957131View Description Hide Description
The microscopic mechanism of appearance and evolution of pores and cracks is proposed to investigate the process of micropore nucleation in solids under impact and fixed loadings. The size distribution function and the critical size of pores are defined. The dependencies between the rate of pore nucleation and the rate of pore accumulation in solids under loading are specified. The temperature influence on the pore appearance process is examined.
The mechanism of linear and nonlinear optical effects in fluoride crystals98(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1977199View Description Hide Description
Electronic structure calculations of , , and are performed from first principles based on a plane-wave pseudopotential method. The linear optical properties and the static second-harmonic generation coefficients are also calculated. Furthermore, a real-space atom-cutting method is employed to analyze the respective contributions of the anionic groups and cations in to the optical response. The results show that the anionic groups in the crystal are quite favorable for producing larger microscopic second-order susceptibilities.
Indentation stress dependence of the temperature range of microscopic superelastic behavior of nickel-titanium thin films98(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1994934View Description Hide Description
The microscopic superelastic behavior of thin-film NiTi is investigated by instrumented indentation experiments conducted at different temperatures. The indentation-induced superelastic effect is found to be persistent to about above the austenite transformation finish temperature. In contrast, the upper temperature where superelastic effect exists is only around plus in uniaxial tension and compression tests, beyond which the plasticity of the austenite phase overwhelms the transformation-induced superelasticity. By combining the Clausius-Clapeyron equation and spherical cavity model for indentation, we show that the high hydrostatic pressure under the indenter is capable of elevating the transformation temperatures and increase the upper temperature limit of indentation-induced superelastic behavior.
film interfaces with Si and98(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1994938View Description Hide Description
The interface formed by the thermal oxidation of sputter-deposited Zr metal onto Si(100)- and -coated Si(100) wafers was studied in situ and in real time using spectroscopic ellipsometry (SE) in the 1.5–4.5 photon energy range and mass spectrometry of recoiled ions (MSRI). SE yielded optical properties for the film and interface and MSRI yielded film and interface composition. An optical model was developed and verified using transmission electron microscopy.Interfacial reaction of the was observed for both substrates, with more interaction for Si substrates. Equivalent oxide thicknesses and interface trap levels were determined on capacitors with lower trap levels found on samples with a thicker underlayer. In addition to the optical properties for the intermixed interface layer, the optical properties for Zr metal and unreacted are also reported.
Phase-separated Al–Si thin films98(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1994942View Description Hide Description
Phase-separated Al–Si films composed of Al nanocylinders embedded in an amorphous-Si matrix have been prepared by a sputtering method. By controlling the deposition rate, substrate temperature, and film composition, the average diameter of the Al cylinders can be varied systematically from less than with a cylinder density ranging from to in excess of . A three-dimensional simulation of phase separation in binary thin films was performed using a modified Cahn-Hilliard [J. Chem. Phys.28, 258 (1958)] equation to understand the growth mechanism. The simulation studies indicate that the surfacediffusion length and film composition are important factors which determine film morphology. Experimental and simulation studies are compared and discussed.
Donor-acceptor pair emission enhancement in mass-transport-grown GaN98(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1994943View Description Hide Description
A dominating donor-acceptor pair (DAP) emission at about is observed in the photoluminescence and cathodoluminescence spectra of intentionally undoped mass-transport (MT)-grown GaN, while only a weak presence of the DAP emission is recorded in the as-grown hydride vapor phase epitaxialGaN. A comparative study of impurity and native defect incorporation in the as-grown and MTGaN was performed, showing a significant increase of oxygen and empty clusters involving Ga vacancy and oxygen in the MTGaN. Based on the observed results as well as on doping analysis of the structure and kinetic analysis of the emission intensities, we propose an acceptorlike complex, creating a state as a semiclassical potential well near the valence-band top due to the local tensile strain caused by the empty clusters to be responsible for the dominating behavior of the DAP emission.
Structural aspects of synthetic zeolite: A comparative assay through positron annihilation and gas adsorption methods98(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1997285View Description Hide Description
Structural arrangement in alumino-silicate compounds (synthetic zeolite species), which encompasses large cavities and channels, have been discussed on the basis of their molecular organization and is further illustrated with the help of micrographs as perceived through transmission electron microscopic studies. The crystallinity aspects and structural defects were investigated through line broadening in x-ray diffraction and the grain sizes through the Debye-Scherrer method. Further, assays of the void size (micro- as well as mesopores) have been performed through positronium annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS) and Brunauer-Emmett-Teller adsorption-desorption isotherm and compared. Despite of some of the limitations of the latter, the final results are in close agreement. The utility of PALS as a microprobe is illustrated through our models. Finally, it has been justified that PALS not only probes the subnanometer micropore sizes efficiently but it also senses the mesopores.
Resonant excitation of plasma oscillations in a partially gated two-dimensional electron layer98(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1954890View Description Hide Description
We have solved the problem of diffraction of terahertz radiation on a perfectly conductive gate strip that partially screens a two-dimensional (2D) electron layer located at some distance from the gate. Scattering and absorption spectra of such a structure reveal the fundamental plasma resonance excited under the gate. We have shown that the absorption enhancement factor at plasma resonance may reach very high values (up to 60). However, for narrow gate strips (with the width less than ) the resonant scattering length of such a scatterer is shorter than its resonant absorption length by four orders of magnitude, which means that the gated plasmons in this case weakly couple to the terahertz radiation. We discuss the effects of interaction between plasma oscillations in gated and ungated regions of 2D electron layer and provide a qualitative explanation of the rather intensive terahertz emission from unstable gated plasmons in a gate field-effect transistor observed recently.
The lower boundary of the hydrogen concentration required for enhancing oxygen diffusion and thermal donor formation in Czochralski silicon98(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1999035View Description Hide Description
Hydrogen-enhanced thermal donor formation is achieved in -type Czochralski silicon after exposure to hydrogen plasma and posthydrogenation annealing. Hydrogen diffusivities for the temperatures between 350 and 450 °C are determined based on spreading resistance probe measurement. The hydrogen diffusion is found to be trap limited. Two relationships (for different temperature ranges) are established to describe the lower boundary of the hydrogen concentration required for enhancing oxygen diffusion and thermal donor formation in silicon. The result reveals that hydrogen atoms both in free and in trapped states can enhance the oxygen diffusion.
Growth and characterization of alloys on Si(100)98(2005); http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1988973View Description Hide Description
alloy films of 50 nm thickness with were grown by low-temperature molecular-beam epitaxy onto Si(100) substrates held at temperatures in the range of . All films exhibit surface roughness with -lateral and -vertical length scales. This roughness is random for films with small grown at the lower end of the temperature range. Films with larger grown at higher exhibit roughness organized into -oriented cluster arrays centered on shallow surface depressions. This organized roughness correlates with the formation of subsurface complexes of four {111} planar defects or "funnel" defects. Mn-rich, nanometer-sized nodules form near the bottom of the film and seed the formation of vertical, amorphous nanopipes. For growth of small films at the lower end of the temperature range, these vertical nanopipes extend to the surface. In contrast, films with larger grown at higher form funnel defects which appear to emanate from the vertical nanopipes. Regardless of growth conditions, the Mn-rich nodules appear crystalline and do not correlate to any known Si–Mn phase. Ion channeling indicates that up to 90% of the Mn is substitutionally incorporated for samples with . Although the substitutional fraction decreases with increasing , the substitutional content increases. Our results indicate that Mn may be substitutionally incorporated in epitaxial thin films at concentrations of several orders of magnitude greater than its equilibrium solubility.


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ISTANBUL May 23 Turkey said on Thursday it may intervene to resolve an impasse paralysing mobile phone company Turkcell, which has been unable to agree the make-up of its management board or pay dividends due to a dispute between major shareholders.
In an interview with Turkish broadcaster Bloomberg HT, Deputy Prime Minister Ali Babacan said the government would prefer the shareholders to agree among themselves but that the capital markets board could take steps if they failed to do so.
Turkcell cancelled its general meeting on Wednesday because Russia's Altimo and Turkey's Cukurova were unable to agree a representative for their joint shareholding, leaving the company unable to approve 2010-2012 financial accounts.
"We will not allow Turkcell to be without a management board," Babacan said. "If they don't (resolve the issue) the state will certainly intervene until the partners agree".
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Beijing 9th May 2016 – Every year Europe Day commemorates the declaration by former French Foreign Minister Robert Schuman on 9th May 1950, calling for the unification of Europe in order to avoid war on the continent once and for all. On the 66th anniversary of this pivotal moment in European history, the Delegation of the European Union to China will hold an event celebrating the joining together of the EU's 28 Member States. The attendees will include representatives from all 28 Member States, as well as many other guests from China and third countries.
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Myles Standish[edit]
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I've recently been working on a major re-vamp and expansion of this page, adding a large amount of narrative, images, etc. I'm considering submitting it for FA status and would appreciate any suggestions, comments, contributions, etc. that might help it to qualify. Thanks, Historical Perspective (talk) 14:13, 13 March 2010 (UTC)
Finetooth comments: This is close to FA quality. The images and their licenses need a bit of work, and I have several suggestions related to the Manual of Style. Generally, though, this is excellent and makes an enjoyable and informative read.
- You might add to the first sentence that Plymouth Colony was in what became the U.S. state of Massachusetts.
- The image File:MylesStandish.gif should be replaced by a larger JPG uploaded to the Commons and described more completely. The description page should include a link to the source document or to the main page of the site it appears on, (here maybe)
- The image File:MayflowerHarbor.jpg has a description page on the Commons with a link to the source that is circular; that is, it should link to a page that explains what the source is (museum, gallery?) and provide other details about the image rather than simply linking to the image itself with no explanation.
Birthplace and early military service
- The Manual of Style in WP:MOSQUOTE says, "As much as possible, avoid linking from within quotes, which may clutter the quotation, violate the principle of leaving quotations unchanged, and mislead or confuse the reader." For that reason, I'd unlink "Ormskirke" and anything else linked inside the direct quotes in the article. After you've unlinked these, you might want to link them on first use elsewhere; e.g. Isle of Man.
- "Dr. Jeremy Bangs, a leading scholar of Pilgrim history... " - WP:CREDENTIAL advises against using academic titles such as "Dr.". The description, "a leading scholar of Pilgrim history" is fine, but the "Dr." should be deleted.
- "However, the Pilgrims ultimately passed on Smith partly because his price was too high but also due to fears that his fame and bold character might lead him to become a dictator." - Maybe "... and because they feared" rather than "... but also due to"?
Establishment of Plymouth Colony
- "They had originally intended, and been given permission by the Crown... " - Replace "They" with "the Pilgrims" for clarity?
Settlement in Duxbury
- "There are indications that, by 1635 (after the Penobscot expedition), Standish began to seek out a quieter life... ". - Tighten by deleting "out"?
- "Although the coincidence would suggest that Standish had something to do with the naming of Duxbury, Massachusetts, no records exist to indicate how the town was named." - Needs a citation to a source.
- "At the top of the monument, which is 116 feet (35 m) overall, stands a 14-foot (4.3 m) statue of Standish." - Needs a citation. A good rule of thumb is to provide a source for every set of statistics, every direct quotation, and every claim that has been challenged or is apt to be challenged. In addition, I always give at least one source for every paragraph whether or not it has a direct quote, stats, or unusual claims. I would, for example, cite a source for the unsourced paragraph that ends this section.
- The tools at the top of this review page find no problems with links, dabs, or alt text. Excellent.
I hope these suggestions prove helpful. If so, please consider reviewing another article, especially one from the PR backlog at WP:PR. That is where I found this one. Finetooth (talk) 03:17, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
- Thanks very much for your comments. I'm glad it's a good read. I've addressed your suggestions as follows:
- Lead: I added as phrase about present day Massachusetts to the first sentence.
- Images: The Myles Standish portrait I haven't fixed yet but will very shortly. I have access to an original copy of the Memorial History of Boston in which this was first published and I will make and upload a new scan so that I don't have to rely on this low-res one from off the web. Can't do this 'til Monday, though. On the second image, I've edited the file description on Wikimedia Commons and added a better link to a page which shows the file and describes the museum from which it came. Hope this satisfactorily resolves the issue with the Mayflower image.
- Birthplace: I made all these corrections. Thanks for helping to tighten the prose.
- Establishment: Added "The Pilgrims..."
- Settlement: Made the edit. Added a new citation for the naming of Duxbury.
- Legacy: Added the two citations you suggested.
- I think about covers it. Thanks again! Your help is much appreciated. I'm looking forward to giving this a try at FAC. Historical Perspective (talk) 14:36, 20 March 2010 (UTC)
- I just uploaded my own version of the Standish portrait from the Memorial History of Boston. It's much higher res and includes a better description and a link to the source on Google books. I think this resolves the issue with that image. Historical Perspective (talk) 23:08, 23 March 2010 (UTC)


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Sorry to return back to raise another query with you. Now, the logged in user could be assigned as the author of an post as long as the necessary option is checked in the setting as you explained in this link.
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- 1 package cherry Kool-Aid
- 1 package strawberry Kool-Aid
- 6 ounces frozen orange juice
- 6 ounces frozen lemonade
- 2 quarts water
- 2 cups sugar
- 2 quarts ice
- 1 1⁄2 cups vodka
- 1 1⁄2 cups white rum
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Carlsberg Skimps on Russian Beer as Turmoil Weighs on Earnings
Carlsberg A/S, Russia's biggest brewer, is filling some bottles with less beer and making others smaller in the country as it seeks to limit price increases amid political upheaval, its chief executive officer said.
The measures mean "we don't have to increase prices as much, because then we can keep the same price points but lower volumes a little," Carlsberg CEO Joergen Buhl Rasmussen said in a telephone interview yesterday, after the Danish brewer cut its full-year outlook because of a shrinking market in Russia.
The initiative, which applies to 50 percent of Carlsberg's Russian volume, is one of a series of steps the Tuborg maker is taking to stabilize its business in Russia, where it's facing food inflation and high taxes. Other measures the company is taking to bolster sales include introducing new products such as Seth & Riley's Garage, an alcoholic lemon drink, and sponsoring a hockey league.
Carlsberg, which gets more than a third of selling volume from Russia, yesterday forecast a high single-digit percentage decline in the country's beer market this year, less than its previous prediction for a mid single-digit drop.
The shares fell 3.6 percent to 520 Danish kroner at the close of trading in Copenhagen, paring a drop of as much as 6.9 percent. Competitor Heineken NV gained 8.3 percent to 57.31 euros in Amsterdam for the biggest advance since October 2008 after the Dutch company posted first-half earnings that topped estimates and said profitability would improve.
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Carlsberg spokesman Jim Daniell declined to give more details of the move to reduce the quantity of beer per bottle beyond that it is a "small amount" of liquid. While the company's market share in Russia fell 1.2 percentage points to 37.4 percent by volume in the first half of this year, the decline by value was "considerably less," the company said.
The move will reduce Carlsberg's volume market share by 0.8 percentage point this year, the CEO said.
"Short-term, reducing the size of beer bottles does give them a boost, but it's not the answer," said Trevor Stirling, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein in London.
The Russian market shrank as much as 7 percent in the first half of the year by volume, Carlsberg said. After government measures to reduce drinking weighed on sales for the last five years, brewers are now contending with consumer pessimism brought about by the recent political tensions between Russia and its western trading partners.
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Carlsberg reaffirmed its commitment to the country, saying it continues to invest in its brands there and to maintain its presence. In the first half, the company started selling Seth & Riley's Garage in Russia. The beverage is Carlsberg's first global brand for so-called hard drinks.
"Innovation is key in a market like Russia," Rasmussen said.
Carlsberg said yesterday that operating profit on a so-called organic basis will rise at a low- to mid-single-digit pace for the year, less than its previous guidance for high-single digit percentage growth. It also forecast steeper drops in reported operating profit and net income than previously indicated.


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Eleven died in the first hour and another a short time later.
The Department of Conservation (Doc) this afternoon confirmed
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April 9 Science News: Key 'geoengineering' strategy may yield warming, not cooling
Whitening clouds by spraying them with seawater, proposed as a "technical fix" for climate change, could do more harm than good, according to research.
Whiter clouds reflect more solar energy back into space, cooling the Earth.
But a study presented at the European Geosciences Union meeting found that using water droplets of the wrong size would lead to warming, not cooling.
As science advisor John Holdren resasserted in 2009 of strategies such as space mirrors or aerosol injection, "The 'geo-engineering' approaches considered so far appear to be afflicted with some combination of high costs, low leverage, and a high likelihood of serious side effects."
Two major problems for most of the 'hard' geoengineering strategies — aka solar radiation management aka smoke and mirrors — are that they still require aggressive mitigation, and they must meet a very strong test of science.
If you don't do aggressive greenhouse mitigation starting now, you pretty much take geo-engineering off the table as a very limited (but still dubious) add-on strategy — as even geo-engineering experts like climatologist Ken Caldeira have made clear (see Caldeira calls Lomborg's vision "a dystopic world out of a science fiction story").
Also, the nation and the world are not going to pursue an expensive and potentially risky strategy unless they have much higher confidence in climate science than many people seem to have today. You'd have to know with near certainty that doing nothing would make things much worse. Nobody undergoes chemotherapy unless the alternative is pretty darn grim and certain.
But if the entire U.S. political system ever gets that high confidence in the science, mitigation is inevitably going to be the cheaper and safer solution (Intro to climate economics: Why even strong climate action has such a low total cost).
The other problem with geo-engineering is that by the time it might seriously be on the table, say, the 2030s, when humanity has become truly desperate to avert the multiple catastrophes scientists have been warning about for decades, the planet itself will probably be warming faster and extreme weather events will be increasingly commonplace.
Thus it will be very hard to tell if your geo-engineering strategy isn't actually making things worse. That causes real problems if there is any scientific reason to think that your geoengineering strategy might in fact make things worse — which is certainly the case for the most plausible of all the solar radiation management ideas proposed to date, aerosol injection (see "the definitive killer objection to geoengineering as even a temporary fix").
Now, as the BBC reports, one of the few other SRM semi-plausible ideas, cloud spraying, may also suffer from the same exact problem.
Cloud whitening was originally proposed back in 1990 by John Latham, now of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, US.
It has since been developed by a number of other researchers including University of Edinburgh wave energy pioneer Stephen Salter, joining a number of other "geoengineering" techniques that would attempt either to reduce solar radiation reaching earth or absorb carbon dioxide from the air.
One version envisages specially designed ships, powered by wind, operating in areas of the ocean where reflective stratocumulus clouds are scarce.
The ships would continually spray fine jets of seawater droplets into the sky, where tiny salt crystals would act as nuclei around which water vapour would condense, producing clouds or thickening them where they already exist.
It has not yet been trialled in practice, although proponents say it ought to be.
But Kari Alterskjaer from the University of Oslo in Norway came to the European Geosciences Union (EGU) meeting in Vienna with a cautionary tale.
Her study, using observations of clouds and a computer model of the global climate, confirmed earlier findings that if cloud whitening were to be done, the best areas would be just to the west of North and South America, and to the west of Africa.
But it concluded that about 70 times more salt would have to be carried aloft than proponents have calculated.
And using droplets of the wrong size, she found, could reduce cloud cover rather than enhancing it – leading to a net warming, not the desired cooling.
"If the particles are too small, they will not brighten the clouds – instead they will influence particles that are already there, and there will be competition between them," she told BBC News.
"Obviously the particle size is of crucial importance, not only for whether you get a positive or negative effect, but also whether particles can actually reach the clouds — if they're too large, they just fall to the sea."
Yet even today, any given year can be considerably warmer or cooler than the fast-rising mean. It will be difficult if not impossible to know by the 2030s whether some cloud whitening experiment is making things better or worse.
The possibility of this technique having a warming impact has been foreseen by cloud-whitening's developers.
In a 2002 scientific paper, Dr Latham wrote: "… the overall result could be a reduction in cloud droplet concentration, with concomitant reductions in albedo and cloud longevity, ie a warming effect".
But, he argued, this possibility could be eliminated by careful design of the spray system.
Contacted after the presentation in Vienna, Professor Salter took the same line.
"I agree that the drop size has to be correct and that the correct value may vary according to local conditions," he said.
"However, I am confident that we can control drop size by adjusting the frequency of an ultrasonic pressure wave which ejects drop from micro-nozzles etched in silicon.
"We can test this at very small scale in the lab."
You can test it at a very small scale, but it just wouldn't mean bloody much given the vastly different scale and circumstances in the real world application to achieve a meaningful impact.
One scientist at Ms Alterskjaer's presentation, having heard her outline why it might not work, commented that it was the most depressing thing he had heard in a long time.
And Piers Forster from the UK's University of Leeds, who is leading a major UK project on geoengineering techniques, suggested more research would be needed before cloud whitening could be considered for "prime time" use.
"The trouble is that clouds are very complicated; as soon as you start manipulating them in one way, there are a lot of different interactions," he said.
"We need real-world data and we need modelling that tries to simulate clouds on more appropriate scales, and that means less than 100m or so, because if you look at a deck of stratocumulus it's not one big thing, it has pockets and cells and other features.
"Far more uncertain is the idea that you'd inject a particular drop size, because it won't stay that size for long – it will spread out, and that would be uncertain."
The more one looks into each individual geo-engineering strategy, the less plausible it appears.
And of course, the SRM 'solutions' do nothing to stop the consequences of ocean acidification, which recent studies suggest will be devastating all by itself (see Geological Society: Acidifying oceans spell marine biological meltdown "by end of century").
Even geoengineering advocate Tom Wigley is only defending "a complementary combined mitigation/geoengineering scenario, an overshoot concentration pathway where atmospheric carbon dioxide reaches 530 ppm before falling back to 450 ppm, coupled with low-intensity geoengineering," with the goal of stabilizing global temperature rise at 2°C, in case we can't stabilize at 450 ppm. You can see a good discussion of that at the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists' expert roundtable response to Alan Robocks' excellent piece, "20 reasons why geoengineering may be a bad idea."
Well, stabilizing at 530 ppm requires doing a massive amount of mitigation starting now "" only 2 or 3 fewer wedges than what is needed for 450 (see "The full global warming solution: How the world can stabilize at 350 to 450 ppm").
Very aggressive mitigation is the only thing that makes geo-engineering even semi-plausible (and adaptation anything other than a cruel euphemism).
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- Science on the Risks of Climate Engineering: "Optimism about a geoengineered 'easy way out' should be tempered by examination of currently observed climate changes"
23 Responses to April 9 Science News: Key 'geoengineering' strategy may yield warming, not cooling
Excellent post, Joe.
We already are geo-engineering the climate with CO2. Despite decades of research on it there are still unknowns about sensitivity and pacing and feedbacks. The biggest of these is how clouds behave in the short and medium term.
Now people want to start up a second geo-engineering of our climate in a completely different manner with almost no research into it? And they are picking the least understood aspect of climate: clouds! Totally insane.
Your insight is brilliant that humanity won't want to gamble big on a second geo-engineering scheme until they are scared big time about the first one (aka CO2). And they won't be scared enough about CO2 until they understand the climate science behind it well enough. Once they do they will see that the only solution is to reduce CO2 levels…not mask them.
There is one known effective geo-engineering solution: pull out the extra fossil fuel pollution we have spilled into the air and oceans and put it back by re-sequestering it.
Here is a recent Hansen quote on this about tar sands from a Globe and Mail article:
"The simple message is the oil sands may appear to be gold. We do need energy and there's a lot of potential energy in the oil sands," Mr. Hansen said Tuesday during a break from public hearings in Sherwood Park, Alta. "But it is fool's gold because it's going to be clear and understood within a reasonably brief period of time that we cannot exploit unconventional fossil fuels like tar sands and tar shale. If we do, we're going to have to suck the CO2 back out of the atmosphere and the estimated cost of doing that is $200 to $500 a tonne of carbon."
Wouldn't it be so much cheaper and easier to just put a much lower price per tonne on carbon pollution today so we never have to pay so much more later?
How about we stop our current insane geo-engineering scheme rather than start yet another one?
I am reminded of a quote by Rajendra Pachauri in 2007:
"If there's no action before 2012, that's too late. What we do in the next two to three years will determine out future. This is the defining moment."
When are we going to begin aggressive mitigation? I am willing to bet that many people here drive rather than take the bus or cycle, keep the house temperature comfortable rather than adjust clothing, eat meat rather than be vegetarian.
We need leaders like Jimmy Carter who will tell people the truth and what to do, or Winston Churchill who would be frank about the nastiness of the situation and the brutish methods we need to take to keep the planet habitable.
On top of all the reasons Joe mentioned that geoengineering is a nonstarter, it also will do nothing to stop the the ozone precursor greenhouse gases from ravaging our health and environment. Lester Brown says we have to reduce CO2 by 80% by 2020. I think we had better get cracking.
You can see the PBS documentary with him and Matt Damon here:
Now I understand why President Obama is doing nothing to prevent climate change and its urgency, because his main adviser John Holdren is telling him something like "not to worry, the solutions is… geo-engeneering and that can be done later (and by others)…". I finally get the why of his failed presidency (see Joes articles: http://climateprogress.org/2010/11/04/the-failed-presidency-of-barack-obama-2/ AND http://climateprogress.org/2010/07/22/the-failed-presidency-of-barack-obama/). There is not much that can be done then. The US President is hooked to the perfect disinformation source (in the sense that he is given the perfect excuse to do nothing).
What about the US CO2 emission debt? a concept that Holdren refused to acknowledge in 2009? Unless the US recognize that it is the national time-integrated CO2 emission that matters, not the daily or yearly emission, China and India are justified in not taking the US seriously and in refusing to contribute to massive CO2 emission reductions.
Hasn't fiddling with cloud reflectivity already been 'tried' on a large scale? Doesn't everyone know the history of the west African drought and cloud reflectivity?
The prolonged drought in the west African Sahel was correlated to particles of pollutants nucleating small water droplets that tended to stay aloft, and generating high cloud reflectivity over the Atlantic off the coast of Africa. The highly reflective small-droplet clouds cooled the ocean beneath them, reducing the evaporation rate and rain cloud formation. The Sahel suffered many years of drought. Life-giving rainfalls didn't resume in the Sahel until after regulatory controls in the global North cut down on the atmospheric pollutants. Seems pretty highly correlated.
Using salt to nucleate water droplets seems like it could be a re-run of that experience.
Geo-engineering. The only acceptable geo-engineering for my money is to accelerate geological CO2 sequestration processes to match (if only) our acceleration of CO2 release processes.
So we just find lots of easily accessible sites where we can set up simple (or complex, but simple is better for long-term) quarrying, crushing and dispersal of suitable rocks to hasten what would otherwise be straightforward weathering. All the geo projects I've seen only focus on temperature – though I think painting everything white might be started now if we're seriously worried about temperature precipitating methane release.
But ocean acidification is every bit as serious as temperature rise and extracting CO2 is the only remedy for that.
Personally I think that hastening weathering is not "attractive" because it's not high-tech or glamorous in any way. But it is the only thing that we can set up to run for the _centuries_ required to absorb the CO2 already released, let alone future emissions.
I think reducing greenhouse gases is a desperately urgent need, but hasn't it already been more or less established that particulate/acid gas pollution from the inefficient burning of fossil fuels from the 1940's to the 1970's last century was masking the warming expected from the increased CO2?
It has been said that it was the cleaning up of emissions that allowed the underlying warming to start showing up from the 70's onwards. If that is so, and sufficient mitigation to stabilise the greenhouse effect is sabotaged by the mad denialist movement, couldn't we reintroduce dirty inefficiency to give us a breathing space (irony intended)?
Let's agree that any proposal to add particulates would not be wise to simultaneously add more greenhouse gas. Going back to dirty inefficiency would add the greenhouse gases.
Even in the years when the global average temperature climb was partially masked by particulate effects, the CO2 concentration was continuing to creep upward in the background.
Scas #2–good to hear some good words About Jimmy Carter–if Reagan hadn't reversed his policies we would be in a better place today.
Pace the bullshit about people like me being "anti" geoengineering, this is one I was actively promoting looking into.
Introducing geoengineering before or instead of reducing CO2 always seemed to me like – you have your hand on the hot plate – and the solution is better ways to remove the heat from your hand rather than removing your hand from the hotplate.
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I just finished reading "Fixing Climate" by Wallace Broecker and Robert Kunzig, and they conclude that mineral sequestration using ultramafic rocks is one of the best long term climate fixes.
They say:
• The cost of processing ultramafic rock that reacts with carbon has been estimated to be about $80 per ton of CO2—which is "five times too expensive to be practical. Mineral sequestration is thus probably still a few decades away."
• "Mineral sequestration has one great disadvantage. To sequester a ton of CO2, you need two tons of rock at the least."
• "Meanwhile, mineral sequestration has two great advantages. The first is that it is unquestionably permanent." … "The other great advantage of mineral sequestration is that its capacity is essentially limitless. There are more than enough minable ultramafics around the world to absorb all the CO2 from all the fossil fuels we might ever burn. One particularly large deposit in oil-rich Oman is practically enough to do the job all by itself. There would be poetic justice in that."
• They describe mineral sequestration not as geoengineering, which usually has the goal of stabilization, but as a way of permanently cleaning up the mess we have made.
I searched CP for mineral sequestration but not much came up, and I'm wondering what Joe thinks of its potential—is it too costly to even consider now?
LucAstro at 4/. –
With respect, I think you are very likely doing Dr Holdren an injustice.
To take your second point first, while I entirely agree that the US needs to acknowledge responsibility for its cumulative emissions, it has long used the denial of this need as a blocking tactic on negotiations with China, India and others. For Holdren to have acknowledged that need would have been to renounce a critically important govt policy position, which would have involved his resignation as chief science advisor to the AWOL POTUS.
As to what advice he's giving, I doubt very much that he's been pushing geoengineering as the get-out once climate starts to go embarrassingly haywire – particularly given his diplomatic but notably critical public remarks on the potentials of "geoengineering approaches considered so far", including space mirrors and sulphate aerosols.
Axelrod and hard-nosed state department personnel with two decades invested in the policy of brinkmanship – where China is faced with intensifying threats from a destabilized climate the longer it refuses to submit to US terms – seem far more likely proponents of the undeclared national policy of total inaction to demonstrate obduracy, with easy, cheap and dirty geoengineering by sulphate aerosols as the necessary backstop option to control long-ignored climate destabilization if it became necessary.
Personally for all it greatly preferable to sulphate aerosols, I'm not stuck on the option of cloud brightening – if its research demonstrates insuperable problems then it obviously cannot be deployed. But it is important to note that Professors Latham and Salter, who have worked on this option for most of two decades, have long been aware of the critical need for optimising droplet-size to achieve the intended results. This is a key focus of their research.
Moreover, the option is unique in meeting numerous foreseeable criteria that effective governance of geoengineering will rightly require, including:
– ability to monitor pilot projects' performance within a limited area of sea;
– ability to operate within selected optimum areas to avoid negative outcomes on societally-significant rainfall patterns, etc;
– ability to 'switch off' all or parts of the program within days in the event of negative consequences arising;
– ability to operate without any significant carbon footprint;
– ability to operate without releasing any exotic manufactured materials into the environment, thereby precluding toxic contamination risks.
If these potentials are compared with those of say the sulphate aerosols option, it will be noted that the latter fails all five tests very badly.
As I see it, we were given three windows of opportunity to avoid warming the planet to the point of the interactive feedbacks become self-fuelling and accelerate beyond the possibility of control.
The first window was in President Carter's day, when he attempted to steer society away from raising cumulative airborne GHGs to the point of damaging interference with the climate system. Reagan's coup closed that window.
The second window was in President Gorbachev's day, with the founding of the IPCC & negotiation of the UNFCCC to formulate a treaty to reduce the now damaging level of GHG outputs before their warming destabilized the great carbon banks, (forests, permafrost, clathrates, etc) and triggered the acceleration of interactive feedback loops.
– Cheyney's nationalistic policy of brinkmanship with China closed that window, in that even a rapid end to GHG outputs would now leave the feedbacks continuing to accelerate, due to factors including:
the pipeline warming (reflecting our rising GHG output since ~1975);
and the removal of the 'temporary parasol' of sulphate aerosols and particulates in tandem with the ending of fossil fuel burning;
and the ongoing decline of the marine and terrestrial carbon sinks.
The third and last window is now in play, under the notably inactive President Obama. To control the feedbacks, ending our GHG outputs is more urgent than ever, and is entirely necessary but not sufficient – As the sufficient complement to emissions control, the ongoing warming from the pipeline and the parasol must also be controlled, as must warming from the oceans that have stored the great majority of excess heat, if the feedbacks' acceleration is to be halted while the level of airborne GHGs is steadily reduced to gradually cleanse the atmosphere.
It seems a bitter irony that we who have striven to defend the climate for decades should now have such polarized views on the need and the means to control global temperature while the long effort for carbon recovery can take effect. Some time ago I coined the term the 'Monbiot Fallacy', when he assumed that Biochar would be deployed globally with a worst case set of operational codes – and using this travesty he then vilified various very senior scientists for their support of and work on the option, which, despite its critically relevant potential utility, was in his view shameful. In short, because it could be done terribly badly, it doubtless would be, and thus it was deeply wrong to promote it, regardless of its potentially critical significance.
Whatever else Monbiot may be, he is not a scientist. Joe Romm is a scientist, as well, in my view, as being an open-minded exceptional proponent of climate defence. It thus seems reasonable to assume that perhaps like him most here would support ongoing scientific research into the cloud brightening option, given the unanswered case for additional control of warming, and the lack of any other Albido Restoration options that offer even a fraction of its merits.
Personally I'd not support even well proven cloud brightening and carbon recovery programs unless and until there is a competent international scientific oversight capacity established, and unless and until all nations with above average per-capita GHG outputs have ratified an effective and durable climate treaty.
But then for me the real danger of the necessary third window is not that it will be used badly to the detriment of some nations – that would be a direct illegal causus belli and simply will not be tolerated – it is that it could be abused as merely a grand offset for continued pollution if it were not fully integrated with the essential Treaty of the Atmospheric Commons.
Joe, I've seen a couple of papers on _using_ such minerals in futile endeavours such as CCS for coal-fired power plants.
Just looking at what geologists tell us about the natural weathering processes, we have to admit up-front that we can't do the equivalent of tectonic movement to force mountains higher – thereby exposing more rocks. But I don't see why we shouldn't set up a few (many) sites where wind power is used to (almost) passively chip away at suitable rock faces. The rubble should then be tumbled, crushed or pulverised, again by a suitable, self-continuing process.
The resulting dust could just blow away or be deliberately blown higher to travel further. Gravels should just be allowed to go into water ways and tumble along to where they'll do most good – in sea water. Or be preferentially used in unsealed roadsides, paths and the like where they will be disturbed from time to time without any real effort by anyone – and do their useful work that way.
I really don't see how we can release, every year, 3 million years worth of carbon previously sequestered in oil without doing _something_ geologically equivalent to counteract that. Bio-engineering through no-till agriculture, forestry, biochar and the like really impact only the carbon cycle of living things. We need to deal with the disruption to carbon's geological cycles in rocks and oceans if we're serious about repairing the damage we've done.
Forecaster warns of severe thunderstorms, tornadoes
Damaging winds and large hail expected along cold front extending from Great Lakes to Southern Plains http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42529195/ns/weather/
Hot, dry weather stokes raging Texas wildfires
The blazes have scorched nearly 400 square miles and almost took out the Ft. Davis National Historic Site. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-texas-wildfires-20110411,0,3107932.story
West Antarctic warming triggered by warmer sea surface in tropical Pacific
The Antarctic Peninsula has warmed rapidly for the last half-century or more, and recent studies have shown that an adjacent area, continental West Antarctica, has steadily warmed for at least 30 years, but scientists haven't been sure why. http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-west-antarctic-triggered-warmer-sea.html
If we don't do enough soon enough, eventually when people are desparate enough, some faction somewhere will seize someone's nuclear weapons for their own kneejerk attempt to cool the planet by making nuclear clouds.
Unilateral kneejerk action didn't work so well in this awesome tale of fiction
Now that nuclear is added to the list
of geoengineering in progress, one
might ask if there are any known
life forms that physically thrive in
an environment of nutron beams.
I don't recall the meek pointing to
unusual beings that do well in radio-
active environs. Possibly some plants?
Sulfate aerosol geoengineering might have to be done to keep the methane hydrates of the East Siberian Arctic Shelf (ESAS) from destabilizing catastrophically. Ocean acidification would certainly not be helped by injecting tens or hundreds of billions of tons of methane into the oceans, where a lot of it ends up metabolized into CO2 by methane consuming bacteria. The rest of the methane goes into the atmosphere, of course, where it helps fuel further positive feedback warming.
So while geoengineering won't help ocean acidification by burning of fossil fuels, it might help prevent catastrophic ocean acidification, and ocean anoxia, from destabilization of the methane hydrates.
The only mild form of geoengineering that makes a lot of sense to me is Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage, or BECCS. Transforming existing coal fired power plants to BECCS is technologically doable, and if a gas turbine topping cycle is added to the power plants resulting in combined cycle operation, the increased efficiency resulting from this could pay for the whole conversion.
The combined cycle option, minus the CCS, was studied intensively by the Clinton era Combustion 2000 studies. The other half of the conversion- oxyfuel combustion and CCS- has been performed by Jupiter Oxygen Corporation, Vattenfall, and will be done at larger scale in the new conversion to CCS of the coal plant in Meredosia, Illinois.
So, it's doable, and it starts to put massive amounts of carbon back underground, while generating electricity at the same time. BECCS has been labeled as geoengineering, but really it is just trying to suck CO2 back out of the atmosphere, in effect. So, it's a sort of anti-geoengineering, meant to reverse damage already done.
With coal fired power plants, most of the cost is in the fuel. So, by increasing thermal efficiency – and saving fuel- it is possible to pay for the efficiency loss due to CCS. Oxyfuel combustion, by itself, also increases efficiency slightly, via improved heat transfer, helping to pay for the CCS. Finally biomass tends to be roughly as cheap as coal, and in many instances it is cheaper. Biomass also contains energy which can be used to drive its own conversion into charcoal- pyrolysis is an exothermic process. Excess energy produced during pyrolysis could also be used to power electrical or hydrogen powered vehicles, or vehicles run off of synthetic gasoline and diesel fuel, to harvest the biomass.
Most coal fired power plants are located on rivers, for cooling water. In the case of Meredosia, Illinois, the power plant is located on the Illinois river, and I believe it already has unloading facilities for coal barges. Biomass plantations planted upstream of Meredosia along the river, or dried and pelletized crop waste from agriculture upstream of Meridosia, or charcoal from crop wastes, could be floated down to Meredoaia on river barges- the cheapest form of mass transport.
Site chosen for long awaited U.S. clean coal project
There are many, many coal fired power plants on or close to the Mississippi river system and its tributaries…hundreds, I think. The whole Mississippi river system could become one giant carbon negative BECCS operation, with the CO2 injected into such sites as Mattoon, Illinois, or into deep saline deposits.
It is not ideal to pollute the deep underground with supercritical CO2, but I think that our fossil fuel binge has left us with no choice. If we want to get back to 400 ppm or less of CO2 in our lifetimes, we don't have much choice except to put carbon back underground.
If injected into the right formations, much of the CO2 could combine in situ with calcium and magnesium oxides to make limestone and dolomite, and be permanently sequestered.
Joan at #8
You didn't quite get my point. To say it another way, if the denialists look like they might end up sabotaging meaningful cuts in CO2 emissions by exploiting people's gullibility, it would be better if we reintroduced "dirty inefficiency" as a means of neutralising the radiative imbalance until real science breaks through their foggy pseudoscience.
It's true, as you say, that using "dirty inefficiency" would allow CO2 to continue to accumulate (and it would of course still acidify the oceans) but that would only have to have been done because they had succeeded in delaying or stopping mitigation measures. If they succeed in preventing widespread mitigatory reduction measures, which would be far and away the most insane act ever committed by humans, we will need all the help we can get to counter what is probably to come.
Seeding with sodium chloride crystals wouldn't work any better than seeding with silver iodide for the simple reason that neither scheme accounts for the the energy of condensation.
From what I've been able to find out, cloud droplets grow to about 10 microns but can't get bigger because the energy of condensation takes the form of undifferentiated surface energy rather than temperature. As a droplet grows bigger, its ratio of surface area to volume decreases. If the energy of condensation is appearing as surface energy, the surface energy per unit area increases as the droplet grows bigger. At about 10 microns in diameter its surface energy per unit area reaches a point that cannot be sustained and the droplet splits. My theory doesn't explain why the droplets that make up a cloud maintain their small size until all at once they decide to condense into raindrops and fall. What causes the sudden change in the rules? Where does the energy of condensation go? Sometimes it may manifest as lightning, but many times I've seen it rain all day without any accompanying lightning or wind.
As I've flown on airplanes I've observed that clouds are very often perfectly flat on their bottom for distances of hundreds of miles. I don't know what that means but it could be a clue. For some reason, droplets can't exist below the bottom of the cloud – until they suddenly and inexplicably condense into drops big enough to fall out of the cloud as rain.
This is all by way of pointing out that cloud physics, and indeed atmospheric physics, is almost a completely unknown science. If this cockeyed and expensive scheme were tried, its result would be unknown.
LucAstro @ 4: Like Lewis C. @ 13, I'm not sure where you're coming from on this. The quote Joe gives does not sound like a ringing endorsement of geoengineering to me, and Holdren has sounded very concerned about it on other occasions. I think the problem is what Obama thinks is politically possible; but at least he's stood firm on protecting the EPA from Republican attacks.
In general, this is discouraging but not unexpected. I'm open to geoengineering, but clouds are perhaps the biggest remaining problem in climate modelling, and you would really want to understand them thoroughly before trying something like this.
mark @ 18: The Last Ship is indeed a fine and sobering book.