How is this supposed to work? On Jan 4, 4:22 pm, Dan Whaley <[email protected]> wrote: > This is the company that Paul Hawken and Amory Lovins are advisors > to... fibonacci spiral fan blades in various applications to reduce > turbulent flow-- haven't heard much from them since a big splash in > 2007 and 2008. > > D > > On Jan 4, 12:13 am, Andrew Lockley <[email protected]> wrote: > > >http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/01/a-new-spin-on-climate-enginee... > > A New Spin on Climate > > Engineering<http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/01/a-new-spin-on-climate-enginee...> > > by April Streeter, Gothenburg, > > Sweden<http://www.treehugger.com/author/april-streeter-gothenburg-swed-1/> > > <http://www.treehugger.com/feeds/authors/april.xml> on 01. 3.10 > > SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY <http://www.treehugger.com/science_technology/> > > <http://digg.com/submit?url=http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010/01/a-...><http://www.reddit.com/submit?url=http://www.treehugger.com/files/2010...><http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=http://www.treehugger.com/files/2...><http://www.stumbleupon.com/submit?url=http://www.treehugger.com/files...>BUZZ > > UP!<http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzz?publisherurn=treehugger556&guid=http%3A%2F...> > > > [image: Spinning-Vortex.jpg] > > *Photo of a water vortex by Renzo > > Ferrante<http://www.flickr.com/photos/erreeffe/359444433/> @ > > flickr.* > > > Jay Harman's idea of using spiral dynamics to create spinning, vortex-shaped > > impellers that serve as heat sinks and buy us time to avert climate changes > > with a clean energy economy is not new. We've chronicled Harman's > > biomimicry-inspired > > inventions > > before<http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/04/biomimicry-revolution.php>. > > And > > geoengineering's<http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/filmmaker-robert-greene-weath...> > > promise > > has yet to be realized in combating warming temperatures. Yet Pax > > Scientific, a company Harman helped found, is now proposing to carry out a > > one-year study, says a special issue of > > Ode<http://www.solutionsweneednow.org/>, > > to figure out exactly how much anthropogenic warming might be offset by > > Harman's brand of atmospheric engineering, and at what cost. > > > [image: Sun-and-Cloud-Vortex.jpg] > > *Photo of a sun and cloud vortex by > > ccgd<http://www.flickr.com/photos/ccgd/190217994/> @ > > flickr.* > > > Pax Scientific is proposing to carry out a one-year study that would use > > atmospheric modeling, energy scaling, and modeling of vortices to see if > > Harman's theory that a vortex impeller could be used to mix the atmosphere, > > bringing it back into balance, and providing some cooling will work. > > > Computer modeling had already confirmed, according to Ode, that a 747 > > aircraft engine could create a vortex that could redistribute energy in a > > sky space 6 miles by 31 miles. > > > Of course, there are some unknowns and dangers, the first being how to keep > > the vortex under some semblance of control, as if it cut loose from its > > source, it could wreak havoc. Harman proporses setting up a nearby vortex to > > cancel out the first. > > > Another problem would be making sure that the technology were controlled by > > a "trusted" international authority. > > > Pax plans to publish the results of its study in an open-source scientific > > journal and provide an overall feasibility assessment of the vortex for > > climate cooling concept. > > > Harman is not under the illusion that this is a solution to global warming - > > the task will still exist to transition to a clean energy economy that gives > > us the energy we need without the carbon dioxide emissions. However, in a > > recent podcast on Designing with > > Nature<http://aworldofpossibilities.org/program/designing-with-nature>, > > he was optmistic and enthusiastic about the application of vortexes and > > spirals to lots of design questions. > > > "There's no energy shortage in nature...nature is remarkable at reducing > > drag and friction...via spiraling...we need to translate that to the > > industrial world." > > > *Read more on TreeHugger about Harman and geoengineering:* > > PaxFax: An Effective Spiral > > Fan<http://www.treehugger.com/files/2005/06/paxfan_an_effec.php> > > Filmmaker Robert Green on Weather > > Modification<http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/filmmaker-robert-greene-weath...> > > Geoengineering to Stop Climate Change: The Effective, the Risky and the > > Useless Outlined in New Research > > Paper<http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/01/geoengineering-the-effective-...> > > 7 Geoengineering Solutions That Promise to Save Humans From Climate > > Change<http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/02/7-geoengineering-solutions-wh...>
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