Comments on: Climate conflict: Sea level vs. surface temp http://www.futurity.org/earth-environment/climate-conflict-sea-level-vs-surface-temp/ Research news from leading universities Sat, 18 May 2013 15:10:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Robert http://www.futurity.org/earth-environment/climate-conflict-sea-level-vs-surface-temp/comment-page-1/#comment-45942 Robert Sat, 28 Jan 2012 20:30:06 +0000 http://www.futurity.org/?p=46784#comment-45942 It appears that the appropriate public reaction has been formed concerning climate change. The time is ripe for government to step in as the savior. It appears that the appropriate public reaction has been formed concerning climate change. The time is ripe for government to step in as the savior.

]]> By: Jim Baird http://www.futurity.org/earth-environment/climate-conflict-sea-level-vs-surface-temp/comment-page-1/#comment-45530 Jim Baird Thu, 19 Jan 2012 16:46:18 +0000 http://www.futurity.org/?p=46784#comment-45530 Over 90% of the heat attributable to global warming has gone into heating the oceans, whose thermal inertia insures at least 4 metres of sea level rise according to a study released a year ago by researchers from the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis at the University of Victoria and the University of Calgary There is only one way to counteract this build-up of ocean heat and that is to convert as much of it as possible to work in accordance with the First Law of Thermodynamics. Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion or OTEC is the method for accomplishing this. Patrick Takahashi, Director Emeritus of the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute at the University of Hawaii recently blogged: OTEC COULD BE THE ONLY SUSTAINABLE OPTION IN THIS CENTURY TO PROVIDE ENERGY AND RESOURCES FOR THE WORLD. (The capitals and emphasis are his) Conventional OTEC has been impeded by the size and cost of the pipes required to overcome the inherent thermodynamic inefficiency of a system with a small temperature differences between hot and cold reservoirs and environmentally by the volume of water these pipes move. Both of these problems are addressed by GWMM OTEC which reduces the size of the conventional infrastructure by as much as 900% -- 1 meter pipes compared to 10 meters, increases the thermodynamic efficiency of the process by transferring heat through phase changes in a heat pipe rather than in fluids and maximizes energy potential while limiting environmental impact by recirculating heat in a closed system back to the surface rather than dumping it to the depths. In other words GWMM OTEC makes THE ONLY SUSTAINABLE OPTION IN THIS CENTURY TO PROVIDE ENERGY Over 90% of the heat attributable to global warming has gone into heating the oceans, whose thermal inertia insures at least 4 metres of sea level rise according to a study released a year ago by researchers from the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis at the University of Victoria and the University of Calgary

There is only one way to counteract this build-up of ocean heat and that is to convert as much of it as possible to work in accordance with the First Law of Thermodynamics.

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion or OTEC is the method for accomplishing this.

Patrick Takahashi, Director Emeritus of the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute at the University of Hawaii recently blogged:

OTEC COULD BE THE ONLY SUSTAINABLE OPTION IN THIS CENTURY TO PROVIDE ENERGY AND RESOURCES FOR THE WORLD.

(The capitals and emphasis are his)

Conventional OTEC has been impeded by the size and cost of the pipes required to overcome the inherent thermodynamic inefficiency of a system with a small temperature differences between hot and cold reservoirs and environmentally by the volume of water these pipes move.

Both of these problems are addressed by GWMM OTEC which reduces the size of the conventional infrastructure by as much as 900% — 1 meter pipes compared to 10 meters, increases the thermodynamic efficiency of the process by transferring heat through phase changes in a heat pipe rather than in fluids and maximizes energy potential while limiting environmental impact by recirculating heat in a closed system back to the surface rather than dumping it to the depths.

In other words GWMM OTEC makes THE ONLY SUSTAINABLE OPTION IN THIS CENTURY TO PROVIDE ENERGY

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