We all see trails growing in clear blue skies, and we know the importance of the saturation point.
We know trails work in the same way as cirrus clouds. Supersaturation, above 125%, and they will grow a little bit, but only grow into thick clouds when the humidity is nearer to 145%. Subsaturation will make them disappear. Clear blue skies are usually subsaturated.
We have also learned about mixing and why this prevents a trail from forming directly behind the engine, and why a gap of at least 1 plane length should exist.
Now we have to learn about the burning of the fuel.
We often think of burning as destroying something, because after a fire, we usually only see a small pile of ash left behind. Take a piece of wood as an example. After it burns, the solid wood is gone, and only a little ash remains, so it feels like most of it has disappeared.
What we don’t see is that most of the wood doesn’t turn into ash; it turns into invisible gases that float away into the air.
When something burns, it isn’t vanishing or being destroyed. Oxygen from the air joins with the material, changing it into new substances like gases and ash.
Even though it looks like there is less left, the total amount of material after burning is actually greater than what you started with, because oxygen from the air has actually been added by the chemistry of the fire.
Jet fuel is kerosene.
For each tonne of jet fuel burned, 1.24 tonnes of water and 3.15 tonnes of carbon dioxide are produced, along with some trace elements totalling approximately 4.4 tonnes of by-products from each tonne of fuel.
Jet engines turn fuel into massive amounts of water and carbon dioxide.
Jet engines release 1.24 times more water into the atmosphere than the amount of fuel they consume. In a way, they act as flying water-making machines, converting fuel into water.
In 1990, within a USAF academic setting:
“Chemtrails” meant chemical trails
That includes:
Aircraft exhaust products
Aerosols (liquids and solids suspended in the air)
Atmospheric residues
Chemical signatures detectable after dispersion
Environmental effects (e.g., acid rain)
There was nothing controversial about studying these topics. The Air Force, more than almost any institution, has strong operational reasons to understand:
How chemicals behave in air
How long they persist
How they can be detected
How they interact with weather and materials
The USAF Chemistry 131 manual reflects that reality.
The Problem with the Word ‘Chemtrails’
The term “chemtrails” was later socially contaminated, and that contamination now makes ordinary, legitimate discussion of atmospheric chemical trails unnecessarily difficult. That does not mean the underlying subject is illegitimate, only that the word became politicised long after it was already in use in a plain, descriptive sense by the USAF.
The word “chemtrail” is the best fit to describe the phenomenon that we all see in clear blue skies. Unfortunately, the word is associated with all sorts of mad claims about spraying chemicals from secret chemjuice containers for mind and population control purposes.
Whilst the danger from the chemicals is real, and jet fuel particulates are constantly raining down on the population of the Earth, it cannot be said that chemtrails are a secret spraying program. If chemtrails were a secret spraying program, it would be the worst-kept secret in the world because every person sees them in the sky.
If governments wanted to spray the people secretly, they would not make a spray that turned into a thick cloud; they would make one that remained as a vapour and was always invisible.
This website will stick to what are provable facts. This is not a conspiracy website.
When talking about chemtrails we have to be aware to distance ourselves from these corruptions. Modern trails are chemically enhanced contrails. Chemtrails are not a seperate thing, chemtrails are a subsection of contrails.