For more on the OTEC, WOXON, and CCT cooling methods see cooling paper linked to here: https://www.healthyplanetaction.org/
On Mon, Feb 20, 2023 at 4:03 PM Ron Baiman <[email protected]> wrote: > Dear Colleagues, > > In lieu of the recent research suggesting that we may be in for a warming > plateau of at least 50 years after net-zero due to the roughly offsetting > effects of continued ocean uptake of GHG and release of latent heat > accumulated in the ocean over many decades of warming (see: > https://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-will-global-warming-stop-as-soon-as-net-zero-emissions-are-reached/) > does anyone know of modeling research on the potential need for "bottom up" > direct cooling at the point where the "warming from below" from the ocean > is greater than "the warming from above" from the sun? > I'm thinking of techniques such as OTEC and WOHC (to harvest energy from > and cool the oceans) as well as CCT (to "open up" the clouds so as to > release more heat that has already been accumulated)? > > Thank you! > > Ron Baiman > -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/geoengineering/CAPhUB9Aqf8aOMB8z7M86uiZk_1L2DiEBjavX84-vW0GMNc6eEA%40mail.gmail.com.
