Recent content by Ken Fabos

Yes, search using Ken Fabos brings up past posts. I had been attempting to log in using email address rather than username but kept getting message that no such user could be found. Did I try Ken Fabos? I thought I did amongst other attempts. I did send an email request but got no reply...

Small correction - not sure the username is exactly the same. Could have been Ken Fabos, possibly with underscore between.

This sounds like a basic misunderstanding. Convection driven bulk air movements and accompanying turbulence mixes these gases at large scales, irrespective of their relative densities. Volcanic H2S from large eruptions for example is carried high into the atmosphere because of convection...

Not a new member and more a lurker than regular poster, but after recent repeated attempts to logon I registered a new account - using the same details. Hope this doesn't cause Admin any problems. Ken.

Wrongly portrayed activities in zero gravity irritate me - like the Bullock character in Gravity being towed along "behind" by the Clooney character. Should have tried that, discovered they spin around each other out of control, then figure out they need to lash themselves together into a single...

Not so - rather that it is a single study with a different approach, that may well reduce the uncertainty - but I suggest that it is premature to be certain of that. I would note that most climate models - and this study relies upon those models - do have significant omissions, including carbon...

Evo - I'm just a bit wary of statements like "all but rules-out" - I'd like to think that level of confidence is warranted and look forward to the considered opinions of other climate scientists about this methodology. Yet paleo-climate studies - the nearest we have to real world experiments -...

Does it address inaccuracies - if "inaccurate" is even the right term? Have most previous climate models been shown to be significantly inaccurate? I'm not so sure that is the case, with many of the claims they are "wrong" based on differences between a midrange average of many model runs -...

This is no surprise and is in keeping with mainstream science based understanding of ongoing global warming. Yet climate science denial and organised opposition and obstruction of strong emissions reductions policies persists.

Stefan @55 - those are not pic of technology that are economically viable and in every day use. The technologies to get people to Mars safely, provide essential for them there and return them are not what I call proven and in every day use. This is probably stretching the discussion beyond the...

Historical examples of exploration and colonisation relied on proven, economically viable technologies that were in every day use. They also went to places where basic necessities already existed in familiar forms and in abundance; whilst the lunar "exploration" was purpose built technology, it...

Perhaps we should take care not to attribute anything to any particular motivation without some attempt to assemble what is known and give that due consideration. It might be incompetence or even, on average, more likely to be incompetence but malice does exist and it does motivate people to say...

Jacinta @5 - this - - is not an image of the Earth as it is, but is an artificially created image intended to show something other than the Earth's physical shape. Not sure exactly what it shows - gravitational potential of Earth with oceans removed maybe? This is an image of the Earth - (...

Why? They are not that expensive and if you look around you can probably find used ones that have a lot of life left at low cost. I'd be surprised if you can shave much off the cost by attempting to assemble panels yourself.

I suggest you add more solar panels, say 5 kW or as much as you can fit (I assume 2.25 KWH should be kW - kWh would mean 2.25 kW for one hour) rather than rely on very large amounts of storage. You live in the Tropics - yes you will get periods of overcast and rain during the monsoon season but...