Public Service Projects Index

Right Now US Government data collected at the South Pole shows that the Earth's atmosphere contains
of Carbon Dioxide. It is a big number, but note how rapidly OUR ACTIVITIES of burning fossil fuels are causing the total to be rising!footnote See This Presentation for details.

Over the years, I have become involved in a number of projects, each of which has been intended to somehow benefit society, Nature or God. Some presently exist, some are in development, and some are just available for possible combined efforts! ALL are protected by U.S. Copyright protection! The presentations included in the following lists give at least an overview of many of these projects. Each is designed to be PRINTABLE. They apply to a wide variety of fields. Some represent possible business ventures (some of which already exist). Most represent new combinations of perspectives or technologies that seem to enable new insights into the subject at hand. I hope that these scientific, social, religious, and intellectual pages might provide seeds of thought on which others could build. If such use is made of any of my pages, I request a notation of credit be included.

The product- or service-related business ideas presented all belong to me, and some are either currently patented or have patent procedures in progress. Nearly all of these are also meant to somehow benefit society. Use or development of any of them would ONLY be allowed based on a written contract of agreement regarding that particular invention or device or process. NO authority is given to manufacture or promote any of them, based on the mere presence of these presentation pages.

If a reader of this happens to be an electronics technician or hobbyist, I would have great interest in discussing the possibility of hiring or collaborating on a number of these projects that involve various levels of electronic circuitry.

Maybe even more important, if a reader happens to be good at compositional skills, the weaknesses of these many presentations are pretty evident, even to me! I was trained in College as a Physicist, and my whole life has had strong interests in math and science. NOT in composition! Rearranging many of the presentations would make them much more readable, no doubt! People usually smile when I tell them that I actually TRY to compose introductory and closing paragraphs, and to not do so much repeating of concepts! I really, really have tried! These are abilities I do not seem to have. In a few cases, the existing web-page is around the fiftieth revision, and you DON'T want to know what the first one was like! So, there are a few which are "tolerable", but only due to massive efforts! I am absolutely sure that an English Major could re-arrange and re-word a presentation in an hour or less. Volunteers would be appreciated, even if it only regarding a specific subject presentation that interests you!

Information about my background.

Adventures in Politics???

To cite a presentation or article in our Domain.

And, yes, I realize that the cursor is strange and somewhat annoying, but it also has a cuteness that is entertaining (for a while!) If you are a kid, you might watch to see which is the last butterfly to still be flapping its wings! It might actually be obvious to you if you watch them all for a while!

Unusual music! This piece of music is odd enough to get my interest! It is called Pasquinale, and it was composed by the March King, John Philip Sousa, around 1900. Every time I hear it I try to imagine a Marching Band trying to march to it! Or trying to play it!

Seemingly Especially Important!

Scientific

Social

Potential Products or Services

Environmental

Religious


The individual presentations generally include the dates of origin and of presentation on the Internet. These pages first started being placed on the Internet in January 1997. Some had originated well before that date.



C. Johnson


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US South Pole Research

In 1957, The US government (Scripps Institution of Oceanography) began recording data at the South Pole regarding many atmospheric contaminants. That location was selected as being very distant from any human activities or factories and also from any vegetation growth or activity. It was felt that measurements at the South Pole would be accurate indications of the true condition of the Earth's atmosphere.

At bi-weekly intervals, air samples are collected in sets of three 5-liter evacuated glass flasks, at the South Pole (Lat. 89°59'S. Long. 24°48'W.). They are analyzed for CO2 at SIO (Scripps) using a nondispersive infrared gas analyzer with a water vapor freeze trap. Calibration gases are regularly tested as well to confirm accuracy. The three sample flasks must agree within 0.40 ppmv to be considered acceptable data. Scripps has more thorough description of their procedures and equipment.

The readings are averaged to obtain monthly and annual average values. Our running display uses the annual averaged figures from this South Pole data, interpolated for each 1/10 second.

If the specific interpolated value at the South Pole for that instant were 380 ppmv, this means that the atmosphere was then 0.000380 carbon dioxide (by volume). It is accurately known that the total Earth's atmosphere is 5.136 * 1015 metric tonnes. It is also necessary to apply a density factor of 1.529 (of carbon dioxide to the average atmospheric mixture of gases) to convert the ppm (volume) value to ppm (mass or weight).

Therefore, it is simply necessary to multiply these three numbers 5.136 * 1015 * 0.000380 * 1.529 to get 2984.12 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide in the entire Earth's atmosphere at that instant. THIS is the value that is continuously displayed here. The value has NOTHING to do with actual usage or consumption figures of fossil fuels, which actually generally give larger numbers for the annual increases.

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