3. Application to Solar energy management on Earth
Components of the environment have been heated by the Sun and kept more
or less warm without heat accumulation. These environmental elements can
be compared to the foods placed inside a refrigerator where the
temperature is controlled. However, there are differences. The
compressor present in Figure 1 that allows and speeds up thermal
exchanges from cold inside to hot outside is replaced by chaotic
turbulences in atmosphere (winds, streams, tornadoes, hurricanes) and
oceans (hot and cold streams) to dispatch heat within the whole
environment. The condenser is replaced by the cold zone of the
atmosphere where vapor condenses at dew temperature to form clouds which
release the heat stored at the evaporation stage. The refrigerant
present in the cooling circuit of the refrigerator is replaced by water,
and the heat energy released during cloud formation is eliminated from
the high atmosphere partly by radiation to space partly by returning to
the surface via rain and snow. The whole process is schematized in
Figure 2. It is important to note that the part of heat eliminated to
space by radiation from water located at the top of clouds will not be
absorbed by water molecules located in the upper atmosphere since water
is not present there, a favorable fact to avoid electromagnetic waves
absorption according to the Beer-Lambert law, in contrast to the case of
CO2 (Scirroco; 2018).