Climate Change

Weather: Some Say It’s All About Clouds

Clouds indicate that there are rising masses of air and water vapor is condensing. With this in mind, weather experts and storm watchers are able to figure out, with some accuracy, what weather systems may occur. However, while non-professionals have for centuries enjoyed the many, many shapes that occur when clouds form, the use of cloud classification was developed in relatively recent times.

Clouds indicate that there are rising masses of air and water vapor is condensing. With this in mind, weather experts and storm watchers are able to figure out, with some accuracy, what weather systems may occur. However, while non-professionals have for centuries enjoyed the many, many shapes that occur when clouds form, the use of cloud classification was developed in relatively recent times.

According to most historical accounts, an Englishman named Luke Howard developed a cloud classifying plan and presented it to a scientific society in 1803. The names he employed were based on the common practice of using the Latin language. This method allowed for combinations of cloud names, thus creating some of the sub-types.

In contrast, the stratiform cloud is so-named because of the Latin stratus meaning “layer.” These clouds are literally flat and layered, as the name implies. In a different process from the formation of cumulus clouds, the stratiform type of cloud gathers with frontal systems and are often associated with more stable climate conditions.

The altitude at which clouds form can also help determine what type they are. For example, those clouds above 16,500 feet above sea level are generally known as cirrus clouds. This means that the “cirro” is sometimes added to give specific names to basic cloud types.

The altitude at which clouds form can also help determine what type they are. For example, those clouds above 16,500 feet above sea level are generally known as cirrus clouds. This means that the “cirro” is sometimes added to give specific names to basic cloud types. There is another sub-type of cloud, generally forming at 6,500 feet and up to the level of cirrus clouds. This type of cloud can sometimes be known as an “alto” cloud. Those clouds forming at lower levels are usually classified only as one of two basic types - stratus and cumulus.

However, there are cumulonimbus clouds that many consider a class of its own because this type of cloud can be found at nearly all altitudes. The term “nimbus” is meant to indicate that the cloud holds rain. Of course, the practice of cloud classification is far from an perfect science. Yet, most experts know that the flexibility of the system may fit the infinite variations in cloud appearance.

Nearly everyone is aware that clouds form with rising air that cools until water vapor is at a saturation point. Droplets that grow large enough can be drawn to the earth by gravity, and we have what is commonly known as precipitation. There are several common types of precipitation - rain, sleet and snow among the different types. Clouds are the birthplace of the precipitation experienced on the ground.

An abundance of resources for human use is on this Earth. Sitting idly in the oceans is the most abundant of these resources, water. A way to use this water to make a cleaner and cheaper fuel is closer than we have ever thought.

Science fiction novels and movies have used the water-fuelled car as a standard prop. Writers have used this type of vehicle because it was the most fictional item they could think of. This belief is so because it seemed so implausible to make it a reality.

These vehicles have been used by authors like H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, and Piers Anthony in their stories to generate a feeling of the futuristic and fantastic. The concept of the water-fuelled car seemed so preposterous due to the laws of thermodynamics. These writers had no idea of how close to reality their water-fuelled car really was.

Using water as a fuel is much cleaner and safer for the environment. With the abundance of this resource, it would seem we would never run out. It would also save our wildlife and lands from constant drilling.

The chemicals that are put out by the burning of petrol are deteriorating our atmosphere. Creating a global warming effect and killing our world, water-fuelled cars would decrease this problem. Another ice age or worse is in the making.

Chemicals will not be generated if the use of water as a fuel becomes the norm. Drilling and polluting will also end if we change the fuel we are using now. This action will make our planet healthy again.

Easier travel will be found with the use of water-fuelled engine. Airplanes, trains and boats will be regulated to water-fuel once it has been implemented into cars. By then, the best vehicle to own would be a water-fuelled boat, because of the never-ending source of fuel.

For centuries, the science fiction authors have been giving inventors ideas. An enthusiastic writer created the telephone, the airplane and the elevator long before they were created physically. The creator of “Star Trek,” Gene Roddenberry, created inventions that have become reality since the beginning of his show in the 1960’s.

The scientists who claim to have invented them took years to complete the items from science fiction. Leonardo Di Vinci first thought of the helicopter centuries before it finally became a reality. Copernicus dreamed of space travel well before it was ever a possibility.

As with most electronic devices, the Japanese have been the first to invent many of the electronic devices thought up by science fiction authors. The cell phone was created by Gene Roddenberry and advanced by Japanese companies. This is only once example of electronic science fiction becoming reality, the water-fuelled car is another.

The making of a water-fuelled car has been done though the actual making of it is incredibly hard. The concept of the car has been discovered and a company in Japan is working on getting a patent for it. It should not be many years before we are driving these water-fuelled cars once they have the patent.