The Missing Heat
Posted on March 4, 2014 by Louis Hissink
It is established that compiling the radiative budget of the earth results in less energy leaving the earth system than what enters it. This has led the Kevin Trenberth’s, by now famous, theory that the missing heat is being stored in the earth’s oceans.
This is quite correct but not in the way he believes.
Water is peculiar in that its specific heat, the amount of energy needed to raise a unit volume of water one Kelvin is double that of ice, or vapour.
This is due to the experimental observation by Gerald Pollack, his co-workers and students that the formation of EZ water, basically liquid crystal, involves not only the raising of its temperature, but at the same time, also causes electric-charge separation forming a sort of water-battery. The most efficient radiation to achieve this is infra-red radiation.
For water the algebra is:
2E = E(temp) + E(EZ)
The problem is that when this water loses heat, or energy, by conduction etc, it only loses half of what it receives, leading to the conclusion that the other half is missing and is being stored somewhere as “heat”. Correct in one sense.
It’s not missing at all – it’s been converted to electrical energy via the EZ water mechanism. That electrical energy is constrained within the top 500 metres, or however thick it is depending on pH, of the oceans and is returned to space not as heat, but as work via cyclones/hurricanes/typhoons. Remember that sea-water is an excellent conductor of electricity, mainly because of the EZ water mechanism.
It’s more complex, of course, but for a back of envelope scribbling, this will do for the moment.
Climate science’s problem is that it thinks with too few ideas, and hence limits the number of explanations it has at its disposal to explain observations and measurements.
As Henry Bauer noted in response to a comment I made recently on his science blog,
Update: I should have mentioned that the earth’s surface is 70% water, hence it is the physical behaviour of water, per se, that dominates the earth’s weather and hence climate.
Posted on March 4, 2014 by Louis Hissink
It is established that compiling the radiative budget of the earth results in less energy leaving the earth system than what enters it. This has led the Kevin Trenberth’s, by now famous, theory that the missing heat is being stored in the earth’s oceans.
This is quite correct but not in the way he believes.
Water is peculiar in that its specific heat, the amount of energy needed to raise a unit volume of water one Kelvin is double that of ice, or vapour.
This is due to the experimental observation by Gerald Pollack, his co-workers and students that the formation of EZ water, basically liquid crystal, involves not only the raising of its temperature, but at the same time, also causes electric-charge separation forming a sort of water-battery. The most efficient radiation to achieve this is infra-red radiation.
For water the algebra is:
2E = E(temp) + E(EZ)
The problem is that when this water loses heat, or energy, by conduction etc, it only loses half of what it receives, leading to the conclusion that the other half is missing and is being stored somewhere as “heat”. Correct in one sense.
It’s not missing at all – it’s been converted to electrical energy via the EZ water mechanism. That electrical energy is constrained within the top 500 metres, or however thick it is depending on pH, of the oceans and is returned to space not as heat, but as work via cyclones/hurricanes/typhoons. Remember that sea-water is an excellent conductor of electricity, mainly because of the EZ water mechanism.
It’s more complex, of course, but for a back of envelope scribbling, this will do for the moment.
Climate science’s problem is that it thinks with too few ideas, and hence limits the number of explanations it has at its disposal to explain observations and measurements.
As Henry Bauer noted in response to a comment I made recently on his science blog,
That’s IF there’s heat building up….
More seriously: Pollack’s book, “The Fourth Phase of Water”, is simply terrific. The work deserves to be counted as a genuine scientific revolution. I worked in electrochemistry for a couple of decades, knew the traditional stuff about surface tension, specific heat, electrical double layer, so the EZ thing was simply astonishing, but utterly convincing because of the experimental evidence.
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More seriously: Pollack’s book, “The Fourth Phase of Water”, is simply terrific. The work deserves to be counted as a genuine scientific revolution. I worked in electrochemistry for a couple of decades, knew the traditional stuff about surface tension, specific heat, electrical double layer, so the EZ thing was simply astonishing, but utterly convincing because of the experimental evidence.
Update: I should have mentioned that the earth’s surface is 70% water, hence it is the physical behaviour of water, per se, that dominates the earth’s weather and hence climate.
