It depends where in the IR you are talking about. There is solar flux incoming in the near IR about 1-4 microns, nett outgoing beyond about 4 microns. The outgoing is the planet’s dissipation, the entropic price paid for the organisation resulting from the atmospheric and oceanic circulation, the biosphere and human activity. ‘Harvesting’ that might be thermodynamically counter productive.
Adrian Tuck [email protected] https://global.oup.com/academic/product/atmospheric-turbulence-9780199236534?cc=gb&lang=en&; On 8 Feb 2018, at 17:37, Greg Rau <[email protected]> wrote: > > https://www.sciencealert.com/quantum-tunnelling-could-harvest-energy-from-planet-infrared-heat > > This is thinking way outside the box, but what if we could cool the Earth by > harvesting IR and converting to electricity? Negative warming energy > analogous to negative emissions energy? > Greg > > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "geoengineering" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
