GWMM

The Global Warming Mitigation Method

The Invention

“Temperature in the atmosphere, even global changes in temperature are slowed by the exchange of heat with the ocean. Thus, 18 times more heat has been stored in the ocean since the mid 1950s due to global warming than has been stored in the atmosphere. Most of the heat trapped by greenhouse gases has gone into the ocean, not the atmosphere.” Robert Stewart, Oceanography in the 21st Century – An Online Textbook.

There are numerous contending non-carbon energy sources attempting to gain a foothold in a carbon-constrained environment but only the Global Warming Mitigation Method (GWMM) has the capacity to address both the cause and major effect of climate change at the same time as it meets the disparate needs of the rich and poor nations of the world.

Developing countries need value-added crops for food, fuel, fibre and building materials and these will sequester CO2.

The developed countries need a remedy for sea level rise which the insurance industry recently forecast will cause $28 trillion in damage to the world's largest coastal cities by 2050.

GWMM affords both.

The Second Law of Thermodynamics dictates that all energy regimes, including renewable energy, will result in increased global warming and thus the melting of the polar ice caps. Any time energy of low-entropy is used to do work it is converted into high-entropy heat energy, which heats up some part of the Earth. 

Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC) is the only energy regime that converts the heat the oceans are accumulating due to global warming to productive energy.

The First Law of Thermodynamics) dictates that:

Increase in internal energy of a system = heat supplied to the system - work done by the system,

GWMM will therefore cool the oceans by converting excess heat to electrical energy.

GWMM will also help moderate the atmosphere by evaporation of most of the water used in the process to irrigate the world’s hot deserts.

To irrigate these deserts GWMM will desalinate ocean water thus helping to preserve thermohaline circulation. Melting ice in the Artic currently is slowing down the thermohaline circulation because the fresh water reduces the salinity thus density of the surface. With normal circulation cold water sinks at the poles and and flows towards the equator.

GWMM provides a method of sequestering carbon dioxide and water in a desert environment. In a first step heat that would otherwise cause thermal expansion of the ocean and resultant sea level rise is extracted to produce energy. A portion of the energy is used to desalinate seawater. The desalinate water is pumped into a desert environment and vegetation is planted in the irrigated desert portion. The vegetation sequesters carbon dioxide. The seawater extracted for desalination further reduces sea level rise. Irrigation water moderates the day and night time temperature fluctuations of hot deserts. Lowering the daytime temperature increases the deserts potential to sequester water.  The commercial and arable potential of the desert is augmented by the enrichment of its soil by composted vegetation, its irrigation and the moderation of its diurnal temperature fluctuations.

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