The Dark Green Solution to the Energy Crisis of Peak Oil and Global Warming
The Dark Green Solution to the Energy Crisis of Peak Oil and Global Warming It really is this simple: The luminosity of the Sun has been estimated to be 3.8478 × 10 26 watts and the Earth intercepts 1.74 × 10 17 watts while 1.585 × 10 13 watts was the average total power consumption of the human world in 2005 Anthropogenic warming* of the Earth is a scant 1.6 W per Square Meter Over the surface of the entire Earth that tiny increase adds up to 7.65 × 10 14 watts, an astounding 48 times the energy consumption of civilization. graph credit: www.physicalgeography.net The greatest flux of this excess energy in the global weather system circles the earth's mid latitudes in high altitude winds miles above the earth. The greatest store of this energy is in the tropical oceans. The greatest reservoir of potential carbon fuel is the atmosphere. The knobs have been frobbed. It's now to time to tweak the dials. The pre-