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Can we use the increased Celsius resulting from global warming to generate energy?
Measurements show that we have a 1 degree Celsius increase in temperature as a result of global warming.
According to wikipedia, the atmosphere has a mass of about 5.15×10kg to the power of 18. That's 5,150,000,000,000,000,000 kg.
Assuming that it takes 1.039 kj of energy to heat 1 kg of nitrogen 1 Celsius, and assuming the atmosphere is mostly nitrogen, there is an approximation of 5,350,850,000,000,000,000 kilojoules of free energy floating around the air, not even counting the energy stored in the oceans and land.
Can we use any of that energy?
3 Answers
- Andrew SmithLv 74 years agoFavorite Answer
No. We can only generate power from a DIFFERENCE in temperature. Not from the heat alone.
So if the whole world increased in temperature then a 100 C differential would be a slightly smaller fraction of the total temperature and the efficiency of all heat machines would go down slightly.
The only way that the heat serves a useful purpose is that who would need home heating if the nights never fell below 25 C?
That could save a bundle on heating costs.
Although when the day time temperatures are over 45 C many people feel that they need an airconditioner ( wimps!) so we would lose energy in this way.
- moondogLv 64 years ago
no snowflake either you out right lying or you just NOT informed or you are being given bad erroneous info that you are regurgitating out.
the global temp has increased in the past 200 yrs by 1 F that's 0.5 C if you look at the global temp increase in only the past 30 years its NOT changed.
