Our results suggest that the atmosphere is actually in full thermodynamic
equilibrium over distances of at least 20 - 30 km.
This explains why we found in Papers 1 and 2 that the atmosphere is in complete energy
equilibrium over distances of hundreds of kilometres, and not just in local energy equilibrium, as is assumed by the greenhouse effect theory.
As we will see below, it seems to be rapid enough to keep the atmosphere in complete energy
equilibrium over distances of hundreds of kilometres.
Not exact matches
A modest path of increased funding seems within political striking
distance even with a tight fiscal outlook, though it would require disrupting the political «
equilibrium» that has kept R&D steady within the discretionary budget
over many years.
Re 392 Chris Dudley — while it makes intuitive sense that a spatially - invariant net photon flux could be sustained by a constant gradient in local
equilibrium photon concentration (proportional to T ^ 4 for a grey gas, assuming constant real component of index of refraction), the calculation of what that gradient should actually be is made a bit more complicated by the fact that photons travelling in different directions will on average be absorbed
over longer or shorter vertical
distances.
OTOH, if by this you mean that both gases will have
equilibrium densities and partial pressures that more or less exponentially decay, with distinct exponential constants so that the static
equilibrium mixture will not end up being perfectly homogeneous
over very large vertical
distances, especially if one molecule is physically much larger than and more massive than the other, I don't have a quarrel with that (and neither does Dalton), although I would want to work out the numbers.
But, our results in Papers 1 and 2 suggested that the atmosphere were effectively in complete energy
equilibrium — at least
over the
distances from the bottom of the troposphere to the top of the stratosphere.
However, we have found that the atmosphere behaves as if it were in «Thermodynamic
Equilibrium» (TE)
over distances of at least 30 - 40 km, whereas the Greenhouse Effect theory assumes that the atmosphere is only in «Local Thermodynamic
Equilibrium» (LTE)
over these
distances.
In our papers, we experimentally show that the atmosphere is actually in complete energy
equilibrium — at least
over the
distances from the bottom of the troposphere to the top of the stratosphere, which the greenhouse effect theory is concerned with.