Beyond Carbon to Global Heat Management

The dominant responses to Climate Change at present are FEAR and DENIAL. Both of these are useless. As a result, debate on Climate Change has become adversarial:

1. supporters of the policy of reducing carbon emissions (net zero) present themselves as good and the providers of carbon-producing energy as EVIL;
2. opponents of net zero say it is all meaningless and just go on.

I do not doubt that THE DANGER is real, but do not accept that carbon is the cause. Fire and heat are needed in the right places, but very harmful in the wrong. The production of energy ALWAYS CREATES HEAT, and carbon is just a fairly harmless by-product.

Please note that the actions taken in the last 20 years to achieve ‘net zero’ have not had any beneficial effect at all on global heat. In fact, in very recent months the graph from Berkeley Earth shows yet another steep ascending line.

In simple, pragmatic terms, all over the world, some people start their day with a hot shower, taking cold water and heating it to about 80 degrees centigrade, before it is cooled in the mixer tap, and then flows down the drain shedding heat into the surrounding cooler air or solid until it reaches ambient temperature. It then continues its journey into the atmosphere. Similarly, every action people take – including the use of refrigeration – releases heat into the atmosphere at a low level.

I am sure that the fighting in Ukraine and the Middle East is adding extra heat. Ironically, I believe that the move to electric vehicles is also causing problems: with internal combustion engines, almost all the heat is generated and released while the engine is running.  With electrically powered machinery, most of the heat is generated before it is operated – during the creation of electricity in power stations!

I have spent many years working on a technological solution to Climate Change (in my professional life I designed many structures and machines that are still in use, many involving temperature control). Being pure technology, my inventions do not involve taking sides and will work whatever anybody’s opinion on its cause.

Please could you read my website – https://solutions-to-climate-change.com? It is long and elaborate, but explains the problem, from its origins in the Second World War, and gives clear descriptions and designs for a quick, effective practical solution.

Apart from its other benefits, my technology will cost less than one percent of the costs projected to 2050 for net zero, because it is comparatively simple, and designed for pre-fabrication and on-site installation.

You have well-informed, intelligent readers. I would be keen for them all to be made aware of this new technology so that they can make up their own minds…

According to the first and the second laws of thermodynamics in basic physics: ‘Heat is work and work is heat’. At present, I don’t think human beings are technically or socially advanced enough to do without work, in its economic or Physics sense.

The Royal Society has published an essay https://royalsociety.org/topics-policy/projects/climate-change-evidence-causes/question-20/  which says quite clearly that even if emissions of greenhouse gases were stopped, the Earth’s surface temperature would require THOUSANDS OF YEARS to cool and return to the pre-industrial era. And returning to the pre-industrial era is not an option for us now. Provision of food-stuffs and other essential items like medicines would be quite impossible without industry and the extra power provided by the internal combustion engine and other modern sources of power…

Let’s forget the pre-industrial era – it is irrelevant. The Greenhouse Effect may have contributed to the development of the atmosphere in the planet’s early years, but our present crisis was kick-started by incendiary bombing and nuclear weapons (another moral dilemma for Oppenheimer, if he had known about it…) and is increasing all the time due to HEAT created and released near the surface of the earth by power stations, computers and other forms of work as defined by physics.

 

Our task now is to take responsibility for the planet and concentrate on achieving conditions that will enable safety and comfort for the inhabitants of the globe, now and into the future. Horsepower was originally measured and defined by James Watt as a means of selling his engines. If you compare the power of a human being with that of modern power sources, you must remember that a human being can only produce a third of one horsepower – which is why so many slaves were used for so many millennia. Nowadays, human beings are simply not powerful enough to do the things we are used to relying on. So machinery from other power sources is essential.

But we must try to prevent the heat-byproduct from killing us. To that end, we must remember that heat does not disappear of its own accord – but it will move easily TO COLDER AREAS through fluids like air and water. This is the basis of our inventions. HEAT RISES BECAUSE IT ONLY MOVES TOWARDS THE COLD OF SPACE.