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that's not what i said. I said building new coal fired plants then dismantling and selling them as second hand

used plants = used coal fired power plants, nothing to do with plantations. China builds power plants, then dismantles them and sells them to whomever who can now purchase them second hand - avoiding any kyoto or other agreements about creating or obtaining new coal fired power plants - ie - a...

So the questions become for china, will the tree plantations compensate for the added co2? and will the plantations reduce the albedo such that the consequences are even more than the added co2? Those coal fired plants are just a scam because china didn't have to agree to cut back on...

actually, h defines just how well we can know both. For instance the freq. is very very close to the freq. of the laser and the photon is somewhere in the laser tube or beam coming from the laser. The object of the thought experiments has been an attempt to clarify concepts to a level that...

I use the term 'dent' for lack of a better understanding of what an electric field is. It's the problem of everything is defined in terms of the fundamental undefinables. The general relativity guys like to conceptualize gravity by having matter bend their euclidean space table down so I...

Spontaneous vs stimulated is always possible. Stimulated works as a laser when there's a bunch of atoms / molecules in the higher energy state ready to drop down. All it takes is one spontaneously emitted going by to do so. Spontaneous depends upon which states as to whether you're talking...

I think the real point of qm is that you cannot detect the condition without altering the condition. That and it's a probability thing. When it comes to the emission of a single photon, there are two types. These are spontaneous and stimulated. There are probability factors for each...

the original emission of the photon can be one of two methods, spontaneous or stimulated. Stimulated requires the presence of another photon triggering a molecule or atom in a higher state to drop down to a lower state, emitting an identical photon, same wavelength, direction of travel...

Let's say you had a 'photon drive' spacecraft that emitted 1 photon, perhaps a billion years ago and you went zooming off towards your destination at some pace that makes a snail look like light speed travel. Now the fact that a telescope camera detected that photon on Earth rather than...

A short EM pulse would imply the presence of all frequencies in-phase initially. Such can be simulated by combining a virtually infinite series of single frequency sinewaves. Good luck with recognizing anything or comprehending it in much of any meaningful fashion.

It might help to think of the wave as a dent in space traveling through the medium like a peak and trough of an ocean wave. Energy is being transferred by that 'dent' but no material matter is moving from one place to another, rather the matter is shifting up and down (in the water wave). One...

A telescope is working with two sections, the objective and the eyepiece. The objective provides an inverted real image of angular magnification(-M). The eyepiece is a magnifier creating a magnified virtual image from the object which is the image of the objective which is upright or +m as...

I would suspect you're probably off by some orders of magnitude in level of efforts required to achieve this versus the other.

Sure the CO2 goes into the wood but you're looking at a 15 year crop versus a 15 week crop. Of course just planting trees results eventually in lots of deadwood - unless it's a crop. It's what happens with the breakdown of that wood that can matter. Termites eat it, resulting in the rerelease...

In general, no. Forests tend to grow in fairly poor soils. Trees are also quite slow growth and obscure much of the solar energy for other plants as well as absorbing moisture and nutrients. Now forests may produce soil suitable for the higher performance plants and eventually tend to form...