STEP 20 CSS - Cold Spot Water Sprayer
Introduction
Wave-power is abundant in mid-ocean. What better way to use its slow reciprocation than to compress air?
High volumes of low pressure air are used to power a pump for spraying water into the atmosphere.
As Gulf Stream moves North in Spring, it encounters meltwaters coming south. They comingle and Barrels of meltwater are dragged along within the Gulf Stream towards the downwelling in the Arctic.
Find such lean, cold sources and spray into atmosphere before they disappear down plug-hole.
A basic Wave Machine (see WMC) would be equipped with modern fire-fighting type spray fogging equipment, and guided by satellite to a suitable barrel of cold water flowing north along the Gulf Stream.
In southern reaches, this water is typically at 8ºC while the atmosphere averages 25ºC in summer. As the CSS moves north, tracking the cold spot, this differential reduces until spraying is ineffective. At this point the CSS moves south to a new cold spot.
During the northern winter, the CSS works in the southern hemisphere.
The CSS is typically a kilometer long wave machine with a floating 2km spray boom. By suitable positioning, It can pick up cold water for cooling the air or warmer water for cloud formation.
By combining the CSS concept with a Cloud Machine (see CLM) and a Giant Scrubber (see GTS), the CSS produces the following:
a. Direct atmospheric cooling by Heat Transfer from cold spot in ocean.
b. Sea surface cooling by low cloud formation.
c. CO2 lock-up by capture from scrubbing air
Typical Gulf Stream cold ring