And another question, why is the hiatus period during the 1960s not reflected in a larger
heat storage in the deep ocean?
But as discussed here, changes in
ocean heat storage and ventilation offer a superior explanation.
In order to accomplish the high solar fraction, the system must include several days worth
of heat storage for extended cloudy periods — a large storage capacity.
This problem for AGW proponents is greatly enhanced if one considers the much more dense oceans as part of the planetary atmosphere
for heat storage purposes.
This lets in lots of energy, and as a result neither the air temperature nor the ocean
heat storage change very much.
But, it requires you to build the collector and the solar
heat storage tank yourself.
My stove also heats domestic water for my 85 - gallon solar water tank in the attic, which adds to the thermal mass for
solar heat storage.
Generally it is combined with appropriate insulation, some sort of passive
heat storage medium and control of sunshine in summer.
Pros: High operating temperature,
heat storage built into design, large - scale operations drive down cost of power.
This is consistent with the finding that reduced warming is not mainly a result of a change in radiation balance but due to
oceanic heat storage.
The physical size of this
large heat storage depends on the maximum temperature that the storage can be raised to — higher temperatures store more heat in less space.
From the perspective of the planetary energy
balance heat storage in the ocean is the key mechanism.
It is not clear to what extent solar thermal with
overnight heat storage can avoid the need for back up generation such as combined cycle gas.
The several pages of information below contain quite a lot of additional material that will be helpful if you are building this collector or
heat storage tank.
Ultimately the ocean controls the mean continental temperatures and is by far the largest capacity reservoir for
solar heat storage.
----- On a matter unrelated to the late Sir Arthur: @Thapa (# 5), see NASA's current issue of The Earth Observer (page 16): «These findings were enough to convince the scientists who initially reported the ocean cooling [Willis et al. (2007)-RSB- to go back and closely reexamine the recent ocean
heat storage data they had collected.
Investigation of Cascaded Shell and Tube
Latent Heat Storage Systems for Solar Tower Power Plants
The Enhancement on Heat Capacity of Nitrate
Salt Heat Storage Materials by Doping SiO2 Nanoparticles
Proof of Concept of the CaO / Ca (OH) 2 Reaction in a Continuous Heat - Exchanger BFB Reactor for
Thermochemical Heat Storage in CSP Plants
This new material can be used as
heat storage material for solar heat energy generation systems or efficient use of industrial heat waste, enabling recycling of heat energy, since the material releases the stored heat energy on demand by application of weak pressure.
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Scientists have proposed that what some call «the pause» could be the result of a number of factors,
including heat storage in deep ocean waters to unexpectedly high amounts of aerosols in the stratosphere helping deflect solar rays back into space.
Researchers at the University of Tokyo have discovered a new type of material which stores heat energy for a prolonged period, which they have termed a «
heat storage ceramic.»
Pacific Decadal Oscillation is obviously one of the key internal mechanisms because it drives the way Pacific Ocean (widest Ocean on Earth and therefore
main heat storage) is exchanging heat with the atmosphere, in the mid to long term (50 to 70 years period), hereby significantly influencing the evolution of air temperatures over tens of years» timescale.
Using a regular inexpensive meat thermometer temperatures attained in the 200 gallon
Heat Storage Vault have been as high as 150 deg F.
Phrases with «heat storage»