AN ARTICLE BY Ken Broughton
One of the more intelligent responses to the current newsgroup "MAN vs Nature" energy debate was made, by an alleged, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO contributor, who drew attention to the typically defined thermo-dynamics interpretaion,
I quote:-, "If we can call the complex earth system a heat engine (AS DEFINED IN A TYPICAL THERMODYNAMICS TEXT), the sun is the high temperature reservoir (energy input), and outer space is the sink", we come to the nub of the problem of realising an alternative energy resource, a complete lack of understanding of the existing renewable energy resource.Firstly, it is noted that universal indoctrination has led to the recognition of man's 18th century flawed invention of the "heat engine", as a yardstick with which examine renewable energy,and secondly and more importantly, that our understanding of the global renewable energy resource, is based on a broad, overall assessment of an energy system, which is based on the temperature gradient, which exists between the surface of the planet and the outer atmosphere, a gradient, which reflects a balance between renewed and decayed solar radiated heat.
However the substance of such a gradient, would be establish in an atmospheric gradient, and air, especially still or thin air, is a very poor conductor of heat. Sorry but I find it impossible to subscribe to such a theory !
The claim that the earth system is an inherently inefficient "heat engine" with an input from an atmospheric gradient, is too absurd to contemplate, or have I got it wrong?, .
. Surely, radiated solar heat is "potential energy" which has been absorbed by the thermal environment, which is mainly ocean, averaging two and a half miles in depth, an incredibly massive energy reservoir of high density heat conducting material. Surely this is the credible source source of renewable energy, but it cannot be converted from heat to motion, by any "heat engine"
Potential energy that has no "energy" value whatsoever, either as input to a "heat engine", or any other device.
It is similar to requiring a coiled spring to do work, before it is released,!
The only known method of realising practical value from the thermal environment, apart from dividing it with a vapour compression cycle, or by using a V.C.C.. which operates as a heat to motion energy converter . This latter function is exclusively provided by "THE NATURAL WATER CYCLE."
The following observations will perhaps show that the complex earth system is not so complex,` as to be beyond our understanding and our emulation.
The transient flow of heat through our environment leaves a residue heat in the earth's air and water environment. Air and water have different heat absorption, conduction and retention capacities, which give rise to two different levels of environmental thermal energy, water being a much more stable heat resource than air, although there is a interaction. by proximity.
Earth's energy engine, far from being a expression of man's "heat engine" technology, is actually a "heat engine-in-reverse", a unique application of the vapour compression cycle, and is profoundly denigrated by the title man gives it, of
PLEASE THINK ABOUT THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH, VERY CAREFULLY:-
The unique "open" vapour compression cycle, that is the "Water Cycle", does not avail of the usual contemporary objective of heat division, but exploits the physical advantage of converting the working fluid (water) to weightless "heated" vapour by evaporation, and subsequently, re-establishing it as water, with concentrated mass, at an elevated level, giving it the potential for conversion to kinetic energy when influenced by gravity. e.g. river flow.
STEADY NOW!
It is also important to understand that are conditions, which would occur, if only, it could be shown that a system energy "gain" was feasible, making "regeneration"(feedback) of the controlling characteristics, also feasible.
"Regeneration" would establish the rate of evaporation, and where feedback could be controlled, it would be possible to establish an artificial level of operation to permit direct continuous *kinetic energy from the rising vapour* from that sector of the cycle, and within the limits of the primary source to sustain it..
It is important to understand that regeneration is not possible without a system "gain", and visa-versa., and every weather system validates the claim to their feasibility.
The foregoing section is complex and unconventional , which the author finds difficult to explain. Please ask for a further explanation from a different perspective, if difficulty is experienced
No "heat engine" devised my man, could produce a system energy "gain", because it has an inherent loss. Only a " heat engine-in-reverse" (V.C.C.) with reciprocal efficiency characteristics based on the same, but opposing criteria, could do so, but man would have to admit that this is the case, (when using the thermal environment as an energy source), otherwise one might think it violated the principles of energy conservation..
Tell you what, we'll call it P.E.R., C.O.P., R.T.E. or just plain "advantage", what do you think is best?,
Funny thing about "thermal environment", it is "potential energy", which has absolutely no practical value at all, until it is upgraded (heat pump), downgraded (refrigeration) or in the case of the watercycle, until it is converted to kinetic energy.
Therefore if you feed an engine with energy that has no value, and you don't have to inject it with any other energy (of value), and it produces around 7% of world energy - IT'S MAGIC !!!!
That's the "Water-cycle", Pure Magic ! compared with yhe conventional "heat engine", and abundant "fresh water" into the bargain !!
Did you know that a loss-less method of heat to kinetic energy conversion existed, or for that matter any other coverter, than that the polluting and inefficient "heat engine"?
To get back to the water cycle, and the two different levels of energy from solar absorption, what is the relevance.? Well, let us consider the thermal content of the earth's water, the 350,000 cubic miles of ocean with tidal distribution effects at the surface, plus inland seas and lakes, all at an average temperature of around 290 degrees absolute, together with water's scientifcally established heat characteristics, - this represents, SOME considerable reservoir of totally renewable heat. ... In fact, THE most massive source of energy known to man on the surface of the planet.
And the compression for the V.C.C.?, well, the atmospheric pressure exerted on the surface of the working fluid, provide san ideal source of automatic compression for indefinitely continuous operation of the "watercycle" energy cycle., even if only at an appropriate but extremely low rate. How much energy will the "watercycle" energy cycle produce if given it's head,? Mankind has no option but to let it have it's head, , and the results are clearly shown in weather extremes., such as hurricanes, etc.. i.e. utterly uncontrollable demonstrations of sheer energy, right up to the moment when the primary energy source can no longer, locally support further regeneration.!
AN ARTICLE BY Ken Broughton
Perpetual motion is generally considered to consist of a "closed" self-
sustaining system of energy creation.,
As a realistic concept this is understandably, totally rejected,.
The English dictionary definition supports this view.
If we open up our perspective to allow our minds to accommodate the idea
that perpetual energy is as an "open" system, and the product of a
perpetually renewable thermal energy resource, then why not accept that
"perpetual energy" can be converted to kinetic energy of motion.?
Strictly speaking , of course, nothing is perpetual, but the one unique
energy source that is continuous, and for all intents and purposes,
(virtually) perpetually renewable, is the heat of the environment.
Nature employs the Water Cycle to convert the virtual perpetual thermal
energy of absorbed solar radiation, embodied in the environment, to
virtual perpetual motion, which is established in the flow of the world's
rivers.
By opening our minds, and questioning the validity of some of the outdated
scientific ideas, with which we have been indoctrinated, (such as the "heat
engine") ,we will come to realise the very real possibilities for perpetual
motion.
There is more, much more, common-sense deduction on offer, leading to an
alternative energy resource, more versatile, than we have ever been able to
conceive.
As did my predecessor, and exponent of natural energy, Viktor
Schauberger, I advocate that one should "understand nature" and "copy
nature" to open up the wealth of energy available to us from the air and
water fuel of our environment.
Think on this!
The thermal environment is the ultimate source of "potential energy", it
has virtually NO value as energy, ("OTEC" gradients excepted), and only
acquires practical value when upgraded (heat pump), down-graded
(refrigeration) or converted to kinetic energy of motion, by the natural
water cycle process.
All are vapour compression cycles, with an "primary" input of
environmental heat, which has NO ENERGY VALUE, and yet in the instance of
the water cycle, produces some 7 % of total global consumption, (more than
all the energy consumed from all the UK's electricity generators, and by
motor vehicles and transportation and domestic and industrial needs.
Q. How much energy is needed for compression to continuously activate, the
water cycle engine/converter,?
A. the value of the latent thermal energy of the (atmospheric)
environment, which in practical terms is NIL.
Q. What is it's "efficiency" as defined in the English dictionary? or what
is the "Performance Energy Ratio" or "advantage", if the term "efficiency
gain", offends the "closed mind" concept of the principle of energy
conservation.
A.?
Those who understand the workings of the "heat pump", should simply imagine
the case where it's compressor is energised by compressed air stored from
tidal head changes. i.e. natural "potential" energy, Such a heat pump
will, (apart from wear and tear from friction), produce virtual perpetual
energy in the form of heat.
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