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Melbourne Radar Power & Marine Life Disease

Spatial Clustering of Marine Life Death and Disease in Indian River Lagoon around highest power density (Watts/sq meter & Volts/meter) of reflected microwave radiation in atmosphere from local high power, high gain antennas

3-16-16 Indian River Lagoon

Temporal and Spatial Clustering of Marine Life Death and Disease in Indian River Lagoon during time of highest power density (watts/sq m & volts/meter) of reflected microwave radiation in atmosphere

https://www.wunderground.com/weather-radar/united-states/fl/melbourne/mlb/history/?date=2016-03-19

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/25/us/florida-fish-kill/

Voltage shifted in lagoon at time of voltage increase in atmosphere over lagoon

Kilroy ORCA ORP

Voltage measured by ORP sensor drop ~ 1/2 volt during storm (indicating sudden increase in free electrons)

http://api.kilroydata.org/public/

Kilroy ORP

Voltage quickly goes back to “normal” after storm passes

Sykes Creek DO and ORP

Dissolved Oxygen plummeted at the same time, ultimately killing most of the fish. Goes back to “normal” after storm passes.

Conclusion:  Increased reflection of microwave radiation in the Indian River Lagoon area during the large overhead storm system in March put an increased voltage (electrical potential) on the surface of the lagoon, which is a conductive brackish water (electrolyte).  As the minerals and organic matter in the lagoon gave up electrons due to the temporary increased electrical potential, the electron vacancies were quickly replaced by dissolved oxygen, which was used up quickly through oxidation reactions with the organic and mineral matter, causing oxygen levels to plummet, suffocating the fish. The accelerated oxidation and decay of organic and minerals at the bottom of the lagoon lead to more “muck”.  Due to the increase in free electron density near the surface of the lagoon evidenced by the switch in polarity of the ORP sensor, dissolved oxygen rates further decreased, further choking off the lagoon from oxygen.  During increased electron density near the surface, manatee, dolphin and pelicans will see increased disease from electron attack.  Oxygen levels quickly recovered after the storm passed by and reflectivity and voltage levels went back to “normal”, dissolved oxygen actually rebounded a bit higher because all of the fish had died and there was less life left to use up the oxygen. Probably a lot like a child with an asthma attack.

 

 

It’s Cold & It’s Dark, But Does it Matter?

According to a paper posted to the arXiv pre-print server last week, the difference between an everyday supermassive black hole and a space-time tunneling wormhole may be a lacing of dark matter. While it sounds like crank fodder of the sort that not infrequently winds up on arXiv, the idea may hold actual water (actually, it condenses it!).

Hurricane

Branes Bring Rain

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A Hypothesis for Increased Kawasaki Disease in Children Due to a Temporary Local Increase in Electrostatic Potentials

 

Kawasaki Disease

Click Here for the Paper

And in the sea that’s painted black, Creatures lurk below the deck

Earth Day

EarthDay

We Hosed It!

Award Winning Endangered Newell’s Shearwater Recipe

 

shearwater recipe

fcc calc

Proven Effective:

Bar-B-Que Hawaiian Style

A ShockaFlockalypse Now!

Award Winning!

Only in the Military can you Injure/kill 100 birds and give yourself an environmental award

Next Month’s recipe:

Alaskan Seared Walrus

Prior Recipes:

Fried American Eagle

Mockingbird Souffle

Become One With the Natives

orange dirt

Kauai, HI Reef Accelerated Corrosion Team

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: ChemE Stewart <cheme911@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: Great meeting today about our coral reefs
To: Some people and You

The one thing I think should have a close look if a study moves forward is the amount of iron “dust” in the water along the coastline.  Iron in seawater is already known to kill a reef and promote algae growth.  Since you have lots of agriculture and “red dirt” and “red cliffs” you also probably have lots of iron oxide dust blowing around in the wind from farms and construction projects. Kauai is high in volcanic iron.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/02/140204-shipwreck-coral-reefs-damage-algae-remove-pacific/

“A scientific study published today at The ISME Journal shows that the shipwreck is releasing iron slowly into the surrounding waters, thus fertilizing the iron-poor waters of Kingman Reef and causing a population explosion of algae, and microbes. The result is the killing of one km of reef in less than three years.  Linda Wegley of San Diego State University (SDSU) and lead author of the study says that ” the black reefs show that a very small amount of some pollutant (in this case iron) can kill a large area of a pristine reef.”

Dust in the wind and reef bleaching/decline:

http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/Dust/

In the end, it all still looks like a form of accelerated electrochemical corrosion(galvanic and/or stray electrical current) to me (oxidation/reduction Rx going on with minerals/metals) due to the orange/red colors on the reef, cliffs and red dirt on the west side and dissolving calcium carbonate.

Aloha,

Stewart

 

Kauai Coral Reefs

West/Northwest Side of Kauai, HI

 

———- Forwarded message ———-
From: ChemE Stewart <cheme911@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 2:54 PM
Subject: Re: Thoughts about the military and 2016 RIMPAC?
To: Some People

Make sure to check the red dust generated from the Ag companies, it is mostly iron/iron oxide, it is probably washing up on the reef during rain and when it is windy.  It will accelerate the corrosion of calcium (galvanic currents) because it has lots of surface area.

 
http://www.earthisland.org/journal/index.php/eij/article/trouble_in_paradise1/

 
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Dust can also create lots of electrical charge in the atmosphere, especially when passing through strong EM fields
 
 
I think one of the reason you have more iron oxide/red dirt/red cliffs is you have more corrosion on the NW of Kauai due to the military base antennas and high power/high gain electronics
 
The red color of the soils of the Wahiawa plateau is primarily due to the iron oxide hematite. As you move away from the central plateau into the flanks of the Koolaus, the bright red colors fade and turn brownish. This tells you that another iron oxide of a different color is replacing hematite. The brown iron oxide is a hydrated iron oxide called goethite. The content of hydrated iron oxide increases as rainfall increases as is the case as you move upslope on the Koolaus.

Red Dust from Kauai Agriculture is blowing onto the coral reef. The red/orange is due to iron oxides

 
“Peer into the skies of Miami or San Juan on a late summer day, and you’ll see that threat lurking as a reddish haze that virtually blots out the sun. Researchers have long known that strong winds periodically sweep clay-rich red soil off the dry surface of the Sahel–the region just south of the Saharan desert in North Africa–and send it across the Atlantic Ocean in giant plumes easily visible from space. The airborne dirt then rains down in south Florida and the Caribbean Sea as it has done every summer for hundreds of thousands of years. (In fact, the topsoil of Barbados is almost entirely African dust.) Only recently have researchers realized that the dust is loaded with potential coral killers–including disease spores, radioactive elements and overabundant nutrients.Marine geologist Eugene A. Shinn of the U.S. Geological Survey in St. Petersburg, Fla., became suspicious of the African dust after nearly 30 years of studying the Caribbeans reef-building corals and their perplexing demise. When Shinn began his work–and for at least 6,000 years before that time–branching elkhorn and staghorn corals (Acropora palmata andAcropora cervicornis) dominated Caribbean reefs”
 
Double Whammy
 
All looks like accelerated Electrochemical Corrosion Damage to me.
 
Aloha,
 
Stewart

It is the only thing that makes us feel alive

Before and After

mound coral before and after

Mound Corals at Shark’s Cove, Oahu, Hawaii.  The corals appear to be oxidizing and dissolving from accelerated corrosion. Photos courtesy Terry Lilley & Pamela Whitman.

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Date: Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 2:00 PM
Subject: Mound corals before and after at Sharks Cove
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Cc: a producer, a >, an environmental activist, an environmental activist, a radio talk show host, a navy biologist, a government scientist

Terry,

That reef (what remains)  looks awfully reddish/orange/brown…
Corrosion Damage:
“This  type of damage typically produces oxide(s) or salt(s) of the original metal, and results in a distinctive orange colouration. “
 
Accelerated corrosion could cause the calcium to lose electrons, which then leaves the Ca2+ to be attacked by Cl- and OH- ions in the seawater, producing CaCl2 and/or Ca(OH)2
CaCl2 that precipitates out and later dissolves in seawater can be orange, especially when it is oxidizing:


orange
calcium salts
calcium chloride, CaCl2
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Iron oxides are also orange/red -they could leach into the area from ships, steel structures, underwater metal gear, volcanic rock, etc.

Colors of Corrosion

The first testing I would do is check the reef for corrosion by-products, ie. metal salts and metal oxides (most of which eventually dissolve in seawater)
If it is corrosion, then it is accelerated by the following, roughly in this order of sensitivity:
  • EMF (electromotive force) due to
    • stray electrical current corrosion (antennas, increased voltage in atmosphere over reef, improper grounding, electrical currents in seawater) near reef
    • galvanic corrosion (steel/aluminum from boats/structures or underwater gear in seawater near reef)
  • Drop in pH
  • Increase in temperature
  • Drop in Salinity
  • Increase in Dissolved Oxygen
  • Drop in Dissolved Solids
My experience in industry tells me that it takes quite an increase in temperature or drop in pH to accelerate steel corrosion significantly, not sure about calcium/magnesium in a reef structure
Here is an article that sounds/looks like accelerated/galvanic corrosion of a reef to me from iron/steel in a shipwreck’s structure coupling with the minerals in the reef.
A photo of a shipwreck.

This looks like galvanic corrosion between the steel and calcium/magnesium in the coral reef.  The reef died around the shipwreck.

Terry, if it is corrosion, it might even be accelerated by your steel SCUBA tank and zodiac steel propeller(galvanic corrosion) while hovering near the reef…stop diving so much…
OMG that’s not funny!
Aloha,
Stewart

Just back from vacation – first thoughts

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Christ of the Abyss

“Due to increasing amounts of corrosion and the growth of crustaceans, the statue was removed from the water and restored in 2003. A hand that had been detached, presumably by an anchor, was also replaced.[2] The statue was returned to the water with a new base on 17 July 2004.”