How a 24°C gap between tropical ocean surface and cold deep water can run a continuous power plant, and what the OTEC converter actually takes to operate.
Technologies addressing global warming.
How a 24°C gap between tropical ocean surface and cold deep water can run a continuous power plant, and what the OTEC converter actually takes to operate.
There is a gap in the atmosphere that most people who spend their lives studying climate never mention in public conversation. Between roughly 8 and 13 micrometers of wavelength, the air essentially stops absorbing infrared radiation. Water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane – none of them have significant absorption bands there. Heat radiated at those frequencies…
There is something quietly strange about the air above your head right now. Of every million molecules drifting past, roughly 420 are carbon dioxide. Four hundred and twenty. The rest is nitrogen, oxygen, and a scattering of other gases with no political problem. CO₂ is not absent from the atmosphere. It sits at about 420…