{"id":437,"date":"2006-11-29T16:52:00","date_gmt":"2006-11-30T00:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.argee.net\/wordpress\/?p=437"},"modified":"2006-11-29T16:52:00","modified_gmt":"2006-11-30T00:52:00","slug":"ch-03-the-solar-energy-cycle-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"Ch. 03 \u2013 The Solar Energy Cycle (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 51px; height: 21px; overflow: hidden;\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=437\" data-send=\"false\" data-width=\"51\" data-show-faces=\"false\"><\/div><\/span><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=437\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-url=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=437\" data-text=\"Ch. 03 \u2013 The Solar Energy Cycle (Part 2)\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=437\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_digg\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthrawnrickle.com%2F%3Fp%3D437&amp;title=Ch.+03+%E2%80%93+The+Solar+Energy+Cycle+%28Part+2%29\" class=\"mr_social_sharing_popup_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/buttons\/digg.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Digg This\" title=\"Digg This\"\/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_reddit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthrawnrickle.com%2F%3Fp%3D437\" class=\"mr_social_sharing_popup_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/buttons\/reddit.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Submit to reddit\" title=\"Submit to reddit\"\/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=437\" data-text=\"Ch. 03 \u2013 The Solar Energy Cycle (Part 2)\" data-desc=\"This article is an excerpt from Chapter three in my new book The Chicken Little Agenda \u2013 Debunking Experts' Lies. You can find out more about the book here, and can order the book from this link. This is the second of seven parts for Chapter three that will be presented here sequentially. Read\" data-image=\"\" data-button=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_button.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/scripts\/loader_iconbox.js?v=2.4\"><\/script><\/span><\/div><blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><font style=\"font-size: 12pt; \" face=\"'Times New Roman'\"><font style=\"font-size: 10pt; \" face=\"Verdana\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt; \" face=\"'Times New Roman'\"><font style=\"font-size: 8pt; \" color=\"#0000ff\"><font style=\"font-size: 8pt; \" face=\"Verdana\"><i>This article is an excerpt from Chapter three in my new book <\/i>The Chicken Little Agenda \u2013 Debunking Experts&#8217; Lies<i>. You can find out more about the book <\/i><\/font><font face=\"Verdana\"><font style=\"font-size: 8pt; \"><font style=\"font-size: 8pt; \" color=\"#0000ff\"><a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/chickenlittleagenda.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>here<\/i><\/a><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 8pt; \" color=\"#0000ff\"><i><font style=\"font-size: 8pt; \" face=\"Verdana\">, and can order the book from this <\/font><font face=\"Verdana\"><font style=\"font-size: 8pt; \"><font style=\"font-size: 8pt; \" color=\"#0000ff\"><a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/chickenlittleagenda.com\/Sky5.htm\" target=\"_blank\">link<\/a><\/font><font style=\"font-size: 8pt; \" color=\"#0000ff\"><font style=\"font-size: 8pt; \" face=\"Verdana\">. This is the second of seven parts for Chapter three that will be presented here sequentially.<\/font> Read part one <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/thrawnrickle.argee.net\/2006\/11\/27\/ch-3--all-things-solar-part-1.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/i><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\"><\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p><font style=\"font-size: 12pt; \" face=\"'Times New Roman'\"><font style=\"font-size: 10pt; \"><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" align=\"center\"><b><font style=\"font-size: 12pt; \"><font face=\"Verdana\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font style=\"font-size: 14pt; \">Chapter 3<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/b> <\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" align=\"center\"><b><font style=\"font-size: 12pt; \"><font face=\"Verdana\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font style=\"font-size: 12pt; \" face=\"'Times New Roman'\"><font style=\"font-size: 14pt; \" face=\"Verdana\">The Sun and the Atom: The Only Sources of Electricity<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/b>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><font face=\"Verdana\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\"><b><font face=\"'Times New Roman'\" size=\"3\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">The Solar Energy Cycle<\/font><\/font><\/b><\/font><font face=\"Verdana\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\"><\/font><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman'\" size=\"3\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">Solar energy plays two direct roles: it evaporates water and, by warming the atmosphere, increases its ability to carry more water vapor. Solar energy also plays a significant indirect role. Some places are warmer than others. By a relatively complicated mechanism, these differences in air temperature result in pressure differences. Air located in an area of higher pressure will naturally flow towards areas of lower pressure. The exact path the air takes is a function of many things, including the shape of the land and the rotation of the Earth. The net result, however, is wind. When you think about it, therefore, the motion of the air \u2013 the wind \u2013 is a form of solar energy. <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman'\" size=\"3\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">We can directly recapture solar energy from the wind by placing a windmill in its path. Many Western windy ridges host armies of wind generators. These farms of tall, single-mast, high-tech windmills suck a significant amount of solar energy out of the passing air. The hardware is simple but still relatively fragile. As more and more of these systems come into use, the technology will become increasingly robust.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman'\" size=\"3\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">We have been indirectly recapturing solar energy for millennia using flowing water. Remember all that water vapor that found its way into the atmosphere through the action of solar energy? Much of this water eventually forms into water droplets that make up clouds. Under the right conditions, these droplets coalesce into raindrops that fall to Earth, either back into the ocean to undergo the cycle all over again, or on land somewhere. When they fall, they give up something called potential energy. In effect, each raindrop contains a level of potential energy exactly equivalent to the amount of total solar energy it took to get the raindrop from the ocean where it originated to the point from which it begins to fall. When a raindrop falls into the ocean, it has given up its entire store of potential energy; every bit of solar energy that it took to create the water vapor, coalesce it into a droplet, and transport it to the rain location is gone. When the landing spot is higher than sea level, however, the raindrop sitting on the Earth\u2019s surface still contains some potential energy. <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\"><font face=\"'Times New Roman'\" size=\"3\"><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">So here\u2019s the whole story. Melting snowfields, rainstorm runoff, brooks, streams, rivers, lakes \u2013 all this massive amount of water eventually finds its way back to the ocean. Sure, some of it evaporates and gets recycled locally, but eventually all of it comes home. Every inch of descent represents a surrender of potential energy.<\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Verdana\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\"><i><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><i><font face=\"Verdana\" color=\"#000000\" size=\"2\">(Part&nbsp;3 of&nbsp;7 follows)<\/font><\/i><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"'Times New Roman'\" size=\"3\"><font face=\"Garamond\"><font size=\"4\"><font size=\"1\"><font face=\"Verdana\"><font color=\"#000000\"><font size=\"1\"><font size=\"1\">\u00a9 2006 \u2013 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/argee.net\/\" target=\"_blank\"><font face=\"Verdana\"><font size=\"1\"><font color=\"#0000ff\"><font size=\"1\">Robert G. Williscroft<\/font> <\/font><\/font><\/font><\/a><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n<p><\/i><\/font><\/font><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"mr_social_sharing_wrapper\">\n\t\t\t\t<!-- Social Sharing Toolkit v2.2 --><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 51px; height: 21px; overflow: hidden;\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=437\" data-send=\"false\" data-width=\"51\" data-show-faces=\"false\"><\/div><\/span><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><fb:share-button type=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=437\"><\/fb:share-button><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-count=\"none\" data-url=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=437\" data-text=\"Ch. 03 \u2013 The Solar Energy Cycle (Part 2)\"><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><div class=\"g-plusone\" data-size=\"medium\" data-annotation=\"none\" data-href=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=437\"><\/div><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_digg\" href=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthrawnrickle.com%2F%3Fp%3D437&amp;title=Ch.+03+%E2%80%93+The+Solar+Energy+Cycle+%28Part+2%29\" class=\"mr_social_sharing_popup_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/buttons\/digg.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Digg This\" title=\"Digg This\"\/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a class=\"mr_social_share_reddit\" href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/submit?url=https%3A%2F%2Fthrawnrickle.com%2F%3Fp%3D437\" class=\"mr_social_sharing_popup_link\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/social-sharing-toolkit\/images\/buttons\/reddit.png\" class=\"nopin\" alt=\"Submit to reddit\" title=\"Submit to reddit\"\/><\/a><\/span><span class=\"mr_social_sharing\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"linksalpha_button linksalpha_link\" href=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/social\/mobile\" data-url=\"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/?p=437\" data-text=\"Ch. 03 \u2013 The Solar Energy Cycle (Part 2)\" data-desc=\"This article is an excerpt from Chapter three in my new book The Chicken Little Agenda \u2013 Debunking Experts' Lies. You can find out more about the book here, and can order the book from this link. This is the second of seven parts for Chapter three that will be presented here sequentially. Read\" data-image=\"\" data-button=\"\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/images\/social_share_button.png\" alt=\"Share\" class=\"linksalpha_image\" \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/www.linksalpha.com\/scripts\/loader_iconbox.js?v=2.4\"><\/script><\/span><\/div><p>Solar energy plays two direct roles: it evaporates water and, by warming the atmosphere, increases its ability to carry more water vapor. Solar energy also plays a significant indirect role.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-chicken-little-agenda"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thrawnrickle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}