Alrighty then... [images of Jim Carey and a weird hairdoo] I think it'd be great if this worked! Here's a guy who, although taking alot of college science classes still doesn't have a degree and no funding, and comes up with a very elegent and simple solution... And if you dismiss him outright because he doesn't have a degree, shame on you!!!! Frankly, I think this guy would fit right in at the dime box saloon... Some of the article is below, rest can be seen here: HYPERLINK "http://www.physorg.com/news148887530.html"http://www.physorg.com/news148887530.html
-Mark Inventor's 'refrigeration system' for planet shows promise In the seclusion of his Maryland home, Ace has spent three years glued to the Internet, studying the Earth's climate cycles and careening from one epiphany to another - a 69-year-old loner with the moxie to try to solve one of the greatest threats to mankind. Now, backed by a computer model, the 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, he says. The evaporating water, Ace said, would cool the Earth in multiple ways: First, the sprayed droplets would transform to water vapor, a change that absorbs thermal energy near ground level; then the rising vapor would condense into sunlight-reflecting clouds and cooling rain, releasing much of the stored energy into space in the form of infrared radiation. McClatchy Newspapers has followed Ace's work for three years and obtained a copy of his 2007 patent petition for what he calls "a colossal refrigeration system with a 100,000-fold performance multiplier." "The Earth has a giant air-conditioning problem," he said. "I'm proposing to put a thermostat on the planet." Although it might sound preposterous, a computer model run by an internationally known global warming scientist suggests that Ace's giant humidifier might just work. 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's used extensively by top scientists to study global 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. Ace said that the cooling effect would be several times greater if the model were refined to spray the same amount of seawater at strategic locations. [article continues...] No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.552 / Virus Database: 270.9.19/1857 - Release Date: 12/19/2008 10:09 AM
