We have had this problem for a
long time now. We have been told that the gases emitted by automobile and
industries, destruction of trees and the increasing radiation of the sun are
responsible for the global warming. That is the baseline. If you go in depth,
then there are other causes that relate to these main causes.
We humans have been on this
planet for a few million years. According to our own scientific believes, we
are not the only ones to rule the planet. There has been another population of
animals that we think did rule the world. Those are the infamous dinosaurs that
died after an apocalyptic event. We have
reason to believe that the apocalyptic event was a meteorite impact that caused
earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanoes in large scale. This event first produced a
global warming and then a global dimming. It is not the global warming that
killed all dinosaurs; it is the global dimming that killed all of them.
In a global dimming, there would
be not enough sun light for photosynthesis. If there is no photosynthesis, then
there are no greeneries. If there are no greeneries, then most of the food
chain would collapse. This is what is believed to have happened in the case of
dinosaurs. Dinosaurs were cold blooded animals; meaning, they did not generate
heat to maintain a body temperature. Since they are reptiles, they gained heat
from their environment when the environment was hot, and then lost heat to the
environment when the environment was cold. This was kind of an equilibrium that
the ruling reptiles were with the surroundings. In a way, they were regulating
the temperature of the environment.
We humans are mammals and we don’t
regulate the heat in the environment. What we do is regulate our body
temperature to keep it at a certain level. We essentially don’t absorb heat
from the environment when there is enough heat there. We still keep on
producing heat. When the environment is cold, we produce even more heat to keep
our body temperature maintained at the same level. In average, an average human
emits 100W of energy at a relaxed condition. If you apply this to seven billion
people on planet earth, it is like having seven billion tungsten filament bulbs,
each with 100W of heat emission, switched on forever.
Is this not a source of warming?
The calculations state that we
receive 84 terawatts of power from the sun in a single day. If we did the calculation
for seven billion people, then it would be 0.7 terawatts in an hour and 16.8
terawatts a day. July 11th 1987 was marked as the day of 5 billion
by the UN. Let’s say that we consider it was from 1980 to 2000 that we had an
average of 5 billion people on the planet. If we assumed that and did the
calculation, then it would be 0.5 terawatts an hour and 12 terawatts a day of
heat released by the human population. And this has been happening every single
day for over 20 years!
That is 1/7th of the
sun’s energy additional on earth every day for the past two decades. Is that
not a considerable source of heat? Okay, now we have the source. What can we do
about it?
Population reduction is the
infamous idea of an elite group of people. They suggested this and everybody
knows it, yet nobody knows who they are. That is a different subject. Let’s
leave it apart.
What can we do about it? We can
use this energy. If we utilize this energy then we can reduce the other sources
that we use for energy production. We can use this energy for at least the
equipment we use close to our body. The cell phones, the head phones, watches
and other instruments that we need power can be charged from our body heat. We can
have batteries that get recharged by body heat and then be used for different
equipment. Patients in hospital beds can charge the medical equipment. We can
charge our household equipment when we are asleep. We are on the bed for an
average of 8 hours every day. We can use that time to convert much of the heat
energy we are releasing into electric energy.
Who will do it? You and I have to
do it for a better world.
Remember, I talked about the
dinosaurs? Although they were very high in numbers when they ruled the earth,
they were not emitting this kind of heat because they were reptiles. You might
ask what about the other mammals on earth that produce heat? Well, they are
always in equilibrium with the environment. Whatever heat they were producing
was already accounted in the equilibrium. These mammals don’t populate the
earth like what we did. The human population in 1900 was a little over 76
million. Now it is a little over 7 billion. No other animal that emits 100W of
heat has populated this fast. We have increased the number by a hundred times
and are keeping on with it.
Will somebody care? Well, will
you care?
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