Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

On 9/19/2024 7:52 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 9/19/2024 8:16 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 9/19/2024 4:36 PM, Cryptoengineer wrote:

On 9/19/2024 5:03 PM, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 9/19/2024 2:47 PM, quadibloc wrote:

On Thu, 19 Sep 2024 0:08:18 +0000, Lynn McGuire wrote:
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Chemical saturation limits EVERYTHING but is rarely taken into account.

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Given that the proportion of carbon dioxide in the
atmosphere is measured in parts per million, I had
not thought of that as an important factor just yet.
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If the carbon dioxide level got high enough that it
was an issue... long before that point was reached,
global warming would no longer be the most important
consequence of the CO2 concentration. Instead, the
toxicity of CO2 would have led to the extinction of
human life.
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John Savard

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There have been extensive studies on the level of CO2 toxicity.
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Some people get a headache at 0.5% (5,000 ppm).  Many people get a headache at 1.0% (10,000 ppm).  People start dying at 15% (150,000 ppm).
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The Apollo 13 astronauts were subjected to high CO2 levels, very close to 15% before the ground crew figured out how to reduce the CO2 content in the much warmer capsule as the LEM was under -100 F or so.
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It is a fact that the Earth has experienced much higher levels of CO2 in the far distant past, up to 8,000 ppm.
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If CO2 toxicity was a serious problem, then hydrocarbon (coal, fuel oil natural gas) power plant workers would be continuously sick as the stacks emit 10% to 20% CO2 depending on load of the device.

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Which is part of why they have the stacks in the first place; to
get those gases away from the plant.
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Try sitting at the top of the chimney, with your head in the flow,
and tell us how it makes you feel.
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pt

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Been there, done that, got the tshirt, got the coal dust layered on me to about a 1/8th of an inch (it is greasy when ground to face powder). I was a plant engineer for a five unit natural gas / fuel oil 811 MW power plant for three years.  Then I worked on mostly coal supercritical power plants (550 MM and 750 MW) for two years.
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You have not lived until you take a short cut through the back side of a coal boiler firing 6% H2S coal with a two foot by three foot hole in the exhaust gas header discharge from the ID (induced draft) fans blowing 6% SO2 on you at 300 F.

 I can see why you switched into software, where the most dangerous fumes
are an undercooled processor releasing its 'magic smoke'.
 pt

I've been working in engineering software since I was 14 in 1975 at my father's company.  One of the Chemical Engineering PhDs would give me an algorithm and I would code it into a Fortran subroutine for him.  I graduated from TAMU in 1982 at the age of 21 and went to work for TESCO as a plant engineer.  I left TXU (TESCO and five other electric companies merger) in 1989 to go back into engineering software full time.
I turned down a programing job at Microsoft in 1987? since I would have to move my family and I to Redmond, WA, away from our families here in Texas.  Google called me to come work for them in 2004? but same issue.
I wrote my own unified Equation of State for water in the 1980s at:
    https://www.winsim.com/steam/steam.html
Microsoft spent millions in the 1990s trying to do this and never could get theirs to work to my amazement.
Lynn