Scientists doubt inventor's global cooling idea — but what if it works?
Backed by a computer model, a little-known inventor is making public a U.S. patent petition for what he calls the most "practical, nontoxic, affordable, rapidly achievable" and beneficial way to curb global warming and a resulting catastrophic ocean rise. Spray gigatons of seawater into the air, mainly in the Northern Hemisphere, and let Mother Nature do the rest.
Kenneth Caldeira, a climate scientist at the Carnegie Institution's Department of Global Ecology at Stanford University, roughly simulated Ace's idea in recent months on a model that is used extensively by top scientists to study warming.
The simulated evaporation of about one-half inch of additional water everywhere in the world produced immediate planetary cooling effects that were projected to reach nearly 1 degree Fahrenheit within 20 or 30 years, Caldeira said.
"In the computer simulation, evaporating water was almost as effective as directly transferring ... energy to space, which was surprising to me," he said.
21 comments:
There is some sort of irony in the world being saved by a giant hose.
Can't work.
Pesky little thing called the Laws of Physics.
It can't work.
Did any of these global warming con-artists happen to see a national weather map this morning? It's -2 degrees (with wind-chill factored in) in NYC right now! Just when will all that global warming get around to us?
Sorry Missy, saving the world is 'above Snorphts' paygrade.
Although the 'Huge Hose' of FingerPoot is certainly at your beck and call..................
O and for the purposes of evaporative cooling, since in order to cool something you have to heat something, and that this heat is not sent out into space, for all intents and porposes, squirting water in the air is a 'zero sum' game (actually cause of the heat generated by the pumps it woudl aid warming.
It's kind of like just putting an air conditioner in the middle of the room and expecting the cool air coming out the front to overbalance the hot air coming out the back.
This guys an idiot.
Snorpht -
I know someone who sold air conditioners this past summer. He did have someone who wanted to buy a window air conditioner to set on his kitchen table. It took a lot of explaining for him to understand why it wouldn't work.
1- Theoretically, the additional water vapor would act as a greenhouse gas.
2- Heat needs to be conducted, won't conduct into a vacuum as heat
3- The energy used to add the vapor into the air would more than offset any benefits.
Liberals cause global warming. There are more and more liberals being manufactured each year mainly due to poor education and squirting out too many as babies. All the hot air emanating from their pieholes corresponds to the rise in the earth's temperature. Using the "logic" the left uses, liberals are therefore the cause of this as well many other environmental problems and social conditions.
It's them damn vegetarians, eating all that cabbage and farting out CH4 like a farm full of cows with dispepsia. Eat Me or Bleat Me!
Spider,
Where I live the temp was -8 this morning, wind chill factor not included. With the wind chill factor, never mind you don't want to know. Trust me it was stinking cold!
Heidi, Aparently this 'scientist' is in the same class as your guy.
Any outdoor belly dancing lately?
So, ChloroFluoro,
Whereabouts might you be that was -8?
I thought you were an Ohio gal. Was it that cold there?
Brrrr CFC, -2 is bad enough! Can you imagine how dumb people have to be to buy into this global warming crap with the entire country in a deep freeze? I wonder if P.T. Barnum knew just how right he was.
Hey, It went down to 58F (wind chill = 57F) last nite. Damn near had to git under the covers.
Brrrrrrr woof!
1) still have not turned on the furnace this season, probably won't have to at all
2) actually the idea of shooting large amounts of water into the air will work if it is dirty water.
The dirt would reflect the sunshine back into space & cool us down a bit.
Krakatoa proved this.
It was 17 degrees here this morning in Raleighwood.
But then again, this is NORTH Carolina
Gee. Where's HLF on this? I want to hear some ridiculous notion how it is a right wing conspiracy to make the left loof bad
Poots is right that the physics doesn't balance in these fools' equation.
Remember the scam a few years back where they were going to pump up seawater from 3,000 ft. depths (which is about 30 F) and use the Peltier Effect (temperature differential will generate a current in a special type semi-conductor) to make essentially unlimited electricity. All the brokerages were touting their stock as the 'next sure thing'. People bought into this scheme.
After over a few hundred million bucks had been gathered and 'spent in research', it was discovered that the energy required to raise water up a 3,000 ft. column was 40 times more than could be generated by the Peltier Effect process. The project went bust.
Never heard that any investor money had been returned.
This smacks of the same type scam.
Iwood have to be a perpetual motion machine to actually work. That is if it were not a closed system.
Actually all you would do is make warm rainy clouds that when the reverse process of evaporation occurs (ie rain) would return all the heat gathered from the cooling of evaporation. Plus pf course the 'Hose Energy' (a trademarked FingerPoot expression) of having to pump the stuff in the first place.
Hey Missy... how kum you don't talk to me annuy mo? Doncha Lub me no mo? Ain't I yer hot little cutsey Snorphty?
Gosh, yes, lets cool the globe. Because things were so much better when it was cooler.
Remember the Little Ice Age? Worldwide famine, the black plague, the year without a summer. Gosh, lets do that, because we simply can't have longer growing seasons, enhanced hydrologic cycles coupled with higher levels of aerial fertilizers making it easier to grow food and feed the hungry, now can we?
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