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DELUSION
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DISCOVERY
This is a whole new way of observing climate change and the dilution of the ozone layer.
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A delusion or a discovery, judge for yourself after reading this text
I once read a statement in which the famous American sociologist and politician Daniel Patrick Moynihan expressed his position concerning the climate change controversy, where he said:
According to the quote above, and as I interpret it, I would not have the right to publicize the following.
Nevertheless, I will continue to present my observations and thoughts on this topic, because I am not presenting them as facts, but as my private thoughts, which everyone has the right and freedom
to read or not to read.
Climate change and the so-called atmospheric disturbances have been a hot topic for many years, and even researchers and scientists do not have unique explanations and concrete views on them. To date, we have no factual evidence. Despite several “found” and marked culprits, there is an increasing amount of speculation and controversy. Since I am neither a scientist nor a researcher, I will not delve into controversies or claims. Using just simple vocabulary I will describe when and how I came to this conclusion about the possible cause of climate change.
My so-called discovery is a coincidence, but at the same time the fruit of hopeless thinking and a long search for a possible cause for the destruction of the ozone layer and climate change
(helpless search, without knowing what I’m looking for – guessing).
Yes, it’s a coincidence though, because: guessing is not = scientific research.
It all happened in the mid-1980s:
At the time, there was much speculation about the true causes of ozone depletion and climate change, mostly it was about gases: CO2, Freons, CFKW, FCKW, CFC-113a, HCFC-133a, Methane and the like.
I don’t know why, but I couldn’t come to terms with this and be satisfied as if it was my responsibility and my job to find out the truth (I am, by nature, very curious).
After a while, in early 1985, I got my inspiration:
As I was refuelling my car at a gas station in Berlin, I briefly observed a driver several meters away controlling and supplementing the air pressure in his tires. “My God, what would a car be without air? Without compressed air?” It went through my head. “And all that is thanks to the compressor.”
What a wonderful device! From an invisible, unreal substance such as air, by compaction and insertion into car tires, we get a powerful load carrier. And not just for car wheels, for many other uses. Perfection…
And then the thoughts went in the other direction: !!!
“But it’s not just a good and positive thing, there are consequences, maybe even very dangerous consequences. Each time we fill our tires, we steal air from the atmosphere and permanently trap it in “cages”.
We dilute (reduce) our atmosphere. It gets thinner and thinner, and air is trapped permanently in car tires and compressed air tanks; well that’s no good!
Through the thinner atmosphere, the sun’s rays penetrate much faster and faster to the earth. Faster and stronger warming? Faster and stronger winds? Unstable weather, “tearing” of the ozone layer … Is that actually good? “
That’s how my long thinking and searching ended, and it was clear to me that the reduction in air mass was much worse for the atmospheric changes and ozone depletion, than all the gases combined.
(but only for me)
*We reduce the total, optimally set, mass of our atmosphere.
Optimal ratio:
The ratio of earth-water-air, which makes our planet optimally suitable for human, plant and animal life, optimal distance from the sun, optimal gravity, protective magnetic field, duration of the travel around the sun, duration of the rotation on its own axis, rotation of axes vertically (heating-cooling) of one and the other hemisphere, etc. These are all optimally set parameters for the optimal functioning of our planet, which (in my opinion) should not be changed by people, even slightly. It is clear to me that by polluting our air we are undoubtedly burdening the atmosphere, but I (as a layman), for example, prefer three billion cubic meters of polluted air, which will naturally be cleared over time to three billion cubic meters of air less in our atmosphere.
(subjectively thinking, only for me)
While thinking about the atmosphere being reduced and other disturbances, another human invention spontaneously came to my mind: The chainsaw, which, in relation to climate changes, I would put as a “helper” to the compressor, and we know that living and functioning without these two devices is unthinkable for people.
The “benefits” of chainsaws, especially those monsters on wheels or tracks that move around forests around the world, I wouldn’t even comment.
Let us return to the compressor and its associated use. It would be best to list some areas where compressors help us with our daily needs:
I'll try to identify and list some "air thieves"
Car tires:
The calculation of the amount of stolen air by car tires will not be simple as the quantity and volume (size) per unit are very different.
Example 1.: passenger car = 4 + 1 spare wheel = size? volume?
Example 2.: SUV = 4 + 1 spare wheel = size? volume?
The differences can be and are huge.
So: passenger cars, car trailers, mobile homes, ATVs, trucks and trailers, commercial vehicles of all kinds, buses, vans, tractors and equipment, agricultural machinery, forest machinery (tractors and conveyors), motorcycles, airplanes, bicycles…
Trucks with oversized wheels and huge pressure, used in coal mines, mineral ore mines, quarries, huge vehicles with huge wheels (also giant compressor stations – with huge tanks of compressed air and high pressure);
Military vehicles? (Of course, it is an impossible mission to find out the exact quantity and sizes, we can only guess);
Rubber boats worldwide (military, private, lifeboats, various services and more);
Countless businesses that rely on huge amounts of compressed air because they use tools and machines that work with compressed air;
Small compressors in private households, pressured by day and night, are a common occurrence in developed countries, cities and rural areas, but are increasingly common in poorer countries.
(Most are small appliances with a 25-50-liter air reservoirs but also with a pressure of 8 bar. Case-by-case, around 200 to 400 liters of locked air in millions of appliances worldwide.)
Every gas station, every car service, every corner where tires are mounted and wheels changed, compressors are used everywhere.
Balls and air mattresses (beach, yard, balcony and God knows where else) probably don’t matter, or do they?
We could spend hours endlessly counting where and how compressed air is used.
You can find your pneumatics of choice everywhere: opening, closing, lifting, squeezing, grinding, pneumatic hammers, cleaning and the like… Some may say, “Wait, but they release air!” True, they do, but the compressor keeps pressure in the tank and system permanently. One could list for hours where the air is taken from the atmosphere and trapped in “cages”. There is almost no end for the richer imagination…
If I were to claim that air thinning has something to do with ozone depletion or climate change, then I would be wrong. For that I would have to show evidence, which I can’t. The simple premise is nowhere near the proof. I am not making any claims, just pointing out …
But it is also wrong, without valid evidence, to claim otherwise.
Even if one were to say, “Nonsense, what impact can a few cubic miles of air take from an unimaginable amount of air enveloping our planet?”
I disagree, but I admit that my opinion is completely irrelevant. Only researchers and scientists have the opportunity and the right to speak about this and reach conclusions.
My intention is not to persuade, I just want to draw attention to possible problems or dangers.
In the next steps, I will try to illustrate vividly the events that made me think this way, but before that I will tell you a short tale from folk tradition which is of great importance to me.
One Russian folk tale goes something like this – (intentionally abbreviated version)
(something like this)
An old man had such a large turnip in his garden that he could not pull it out of the ground. He called on his wife to help him, but the turnip could not be pulled out. He called on his granddaughter for help, but the turnip could not be pulled out again. Even with the help of his dog, they could not rip out the turnip. A cat came to help, but it was all in vain. Only when the mouse came to their aid did they manage to pull out their turnip.
(lesson: the “big” power of a small mouse)
The moral of this story is very instructive and educational. It is not at all difficult to recognize and understand it.
(even one small thing – irregularity, can, in certain situations, cause great, even fatal consequences.)
There are countless examples of people’s fatal mistakes because of lack of knowledge.(Scientists, researchers, and experts are also not safe from this).
Drawings representation
Drawing 1
Car tire (wheel), in relation to the Earth’s atmosphere, has no effect.
The condition changes when the pump or compressor is pressurized.
Suppose we bring one tire (wheel) with a volume of 50 liters to a pressure of 4 bar. With this procedure, we removed 200 liters of air from our atmosphere and locked it permanently. We don’t count the 50 liters of air that was already in its natural state in the tires. It is only theoretically possible to assume four airless spaces that float like ring hoses in the air. Of course, something like that is not possible. The moment the compressor starts to suck in the air and inject it into the tank, it fills the empty space.
The consequence – dilution of air in the atmosphere.
One example: We have a vehicle with only 4 wheels + spare wheel = 5 x 200 liters = 1000 liters of stolen air (one vehicle equals one cubic meter of air)
Now let’s imagine how much air will be “swallowed” from the atmosphere by a large truck, which has 18 (22) much larger wheels + spare wheels.
Drawing 2
Suppose we inject air into a 1000-liter air tank using a compressor and pressurize it at 8 bar. As a consequence, we have 8m3 (8000 L) of air stolen from the atmosphere and enclosed in a cage.
At the same time, ambient air fills the “airless” space and this results in the dilution of air in the atmosphere. Air dilution is not limited to the immediate surroundings of the tank (s). This must be manifested across the globe.
(Of course not with this micro-amount of air, but with billions of cubic meters of locked air ??)
The drawing above is simple, clear and easy to understand, in my opinion.
Drawing 3
Suppose we make a compressed air tank whose three sides are the same length (1000 meters).
This means that its volume is one cubic kilometer, or one billion cubic meters. Built and placed on the ground, it has no effect on the atmosphere. But if the compressor in the tank produces a pressure of five bars, then we take five billion cubic meters of air from the atmosphere.
(5 cubic kilometers)
The result of this process will be the dilution of air around the world.
Scientists will say, “Nonsense, what impact can five billion cubic meters of stolen air have on the huge amount of air around our planet?”. It may be, but I prefer five billion cubic meters of polluted air that naturally cleans up over time, than five billion cubic meters of air less in the earth’s atmosphere. I think that nothing on the planet’s mass (and in general) can be arbitrarily added or subtracted. The rules and laws prescribed by nature (or the Creator) must be obeyed; because very often people with minimal intervention caused catastrophic consequences. And it happens again and again.
It is certain that the Earth’s atmosphere reacts very sensitively to even the smallest interventions.
Huge forest fires, volcanoes, eruptions of various gases, etc. are also factors whose occurrence should cause drastic disturbances in the Earth’s atmosphere. Is it really like that? Such events have often repeated themselves throughout Earth’s history, but each time the atmosphere has responded and regenerated rapidly.
The Earth’s atmosphere seems to be “prepared” for something like this.
But downsizing (dilution) of the atmosphere is definitely not what one can expect to do without negative consequences. Not even in the slightest amount.
A small illustration of the comparison:
Example 1.
Passenger car:
Example 1.
Passenger car:
- Tire 205/60 R16
- V (volume) = ca.33 liter,
- p (pressure) = 2,3 bar
single tire = 33 x 2,3 = 75,9 liter
tire set = 5 x 75,9 = 379,5 liter
Truck (long haul):
- Tire 385/65 R22,5
- V (volume) = ca.195 liter,
- p (pressure) = 6 bar
single tire = 195 x 6 = 1170 liter
tire set = 18 x 1170 = 21060 liter
Ratio: 21060 : 379,5 = 55,49
(1 truck = 55 passenger cars)
Example 2.
Passenger car – 379,5 liter
Tractor:
- Tire 600/65 R38
- V (volume) = ca.780 liter,
- p (pressure) = 2,8 bar
single tire = 780 x 2,8 = 2184 liter
tire set = 4 x 2184 = 8736 liter
Ratio: 8736 : 379,5 = 23
(1 tractor = 23 passenger cars)
In most cases – rear axle with two wheels
( = 11.5 more passanger cars)
I am not responsible for any deviation of the values of the information above.
Author: Radivoje Radić – Doboj (occupation: toolmaker).
Dear readers, reflections and reasonable comments are welcome, claims only with clear evidence.