The brow was wiped with a single bead of sweat rolling across the dimpled surfaces of the forehead.
The pulse accelerated to a new level – unfamiliar with this, the heart speaks its true voice
Take Off
I used to love flying. The thrill of departing off into the unknown world. Flying was mystical, fantastical, astronomical.
Fly too close to the Sun, beware the Icarian Sea relent the Ancient Greeks to Ἴκαρος.
Turbulence, delays, windstorms, lightning, ice, birds – with so many obstacles, I’m now a little weary if not terrorized of flying. My heart raced last time I landed in a plane. I suppose I also realized that my neck of the woods has a lot of mountains, and streams and beauty and woods on it’s own that I don’t crave to consume the bug that bites. Exotic as they may be, I find a peaceful tranquility observing the afar from afar – the new craze I’ve consumed are satellite photos. Beautiful imagery from the perspective of heaven looking down on us.
The peace that this brings me is sometimes short-lived – I see my streams and air colluding as streams of air – the jets are not cool. It kicks and screams with violent perpetuation.
Let’s Heat it Up
“This is your captain speaking – we’re experiencing a little turbulence right now, so I’m gonna have to go ahead and turn that seatbelt sign back on… just for a few shakes”
As a localized and communal source, cities provide hubs of energies and excitement. A neighbour nearby, a restaurant down the corner, a corner store to buy smokes. But with this excitement, we expend energy – yes internally of course – but also externally. We burn gas for heat and cooking, we zap electricity for comfort, and we guzzle petroleum to make us move. The annual figure in 2004 for the US indicated that over 2.11 Terawatts, that’s 2,110,000,000 kilowatts were consumed in oil and gas energy. Globally, this figure was 9.1 Terawatts. When we burn, we expel energy.
The energy is born as a hot and tepid exhaust stream, soaked with the products of combustions, CO2 and Aqua. These exhaust streams typically leave hot, but they cool. How do they cool? They interact with the surroundings based on the Laws of Thermodynamics. Hot becomes cool. Equilibrium is restored.
But I ask you, where does this expelled heat go? Equilibrium right? Let me present to you the postulation; all mass and energy is trapped within our atmosphere. Our energy streams do not have the capacity to break through our atmosphere.
When we pump energy out, it expels its heat. That heat is immediately dissipated to increase the temperature around its elements.
If we follow this on a logarithmic scale, at a finite distance, would we not have the smallest effect?
We still impact the immediate temperature around us, off to a distant future. It is still accountable in our perfect sphere.
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Within our sphere, we are all. Within our sphere, we are tall. Within our sphere, we watch it fall. Within our sphere, we build it all.
A beaker holds specified volumes of fluids, like 1 ounce in a shot glass – volume – holds stuff – 3-D’s a pretty fantastic place. The earth is a volume. A sphere – land and water underneath us, air above us. Well we can see air – or can we? I see clouds when I look up at the sky. So what absorbs heat? Well, everything around us does. The ground, my hand, that fish, those rocks, someone’s bike, the air. I could go on. We also breathe heat. But yes, the simple truth is that the air does soak up heat. Quite ravagely too – like the evil forces of entropy are lurking their menacing ways. The heat drifts off until it finds a home through the air, often heading straight for the clouds, open spaces.
Volume, V
Is equal to the space it occupies. We are a sphere. Our earth and our atmosphere. The earth occupies 1.08 x 1021 cubic meters. The volume of the atmosphere and stratosphere occupies approximately 1.109 x 1021 cubic meters. The average temperature of the earth is 13.8 degrees Celsius. The average temperature of the atmosphere and stratosphere is roughly -30 degree Celsius. The specific heat of the ground (excluding aqua) is roughly 1 kJ/kg deg C. The specific heat of the atmosphere is roughly 1 kJ/kg-°C. The mass of the earth is roughly 3.82 x 1015 kg. The mass of the atmosphere is roughly 5.15 x 1018 kg.
When we pump out heat, it escapes to the nearest sink – a heat sink. So when we pump out 9.1 TW of heat energy from oil and gas, things heat up. With this amount of heat dissipated across the atmosphere, temperatures rise.
Central Air
The heats we pump out are localized. Central to our cities and homes, but when we over-populate, we end up stacking up on top of each other concentrating the plumes of heat. Let’s say it plumes out 4 km into a sphere – if 0.11 TW of energy (5% of US’s energy consumption) a volume could hold up to 1 deg C of temperature change in that space! All this heat is being dissipated. Spread out across the atmosphere. This by definition is global warming. We pump out heat from our cars and homes and emission stacks. Heat is being dissipated into the air. How does heat equilibrate. By finding a balance – cold and heat. Heat is being pushed out and creating auras of energy. We can see it from our heavens.
Leaving on a Jet Plane
Our jet streams. Just a convergent energy. I see balance in this art. Cold air rushing south. Hot air rushing north. Magical magnets directing traffic. Cold at the polar cells, warm and cool air currents abroad.
Cold goes south. Hot goes north. Thermodynamics tutoring their paths.
But what if we disrupt this harmony somehow. Let’s increase temperature and add heat to this system.
The Sine Wave
I see a sine wave in this picture. A wave of fluctuation. Strong air currents are being swept away by warm waters.
A Chinook Crawled Up Alaska one January morning, bringing record warm temperatures. A Chinook in Alaska – Fairbanks no less? Don’t you need warm coastal winds to create Chinooks? Why are there warm coastal winds in Alaska – in Fairbanks no less?
The heat that may have caused this effect could undoubtedly be pointed back at humans. We may be pumping out 2 TW of energy into the system above in a short period of time. Chinooks like this may happen. When Chinooks like this happen, you may see a weather pattern and jet stream like the one pictured.
We may see violent winds, erratic snow, warmth, where there is cold, and cold where there is warmth. An equilibrium which is unbalanced. Let’s try not to sweat.
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