The potential reward is
huge: saving the world from catastrophic climate change,
powering our society with abundant new energy, and ending a global economic
imbalance now tilted toward nations that happen to sit atop oil reserves.
That is obvious because over the past 50 years, the oceans appear to have gained 20 something raised to the 22nd
power worth of Joules + / - 14.6 something raised to the 22nd
power Joules, which is also assumed to be a
huge number within a short time frame though we are not particularly sure what time frame is relevant, even though the impact of that 20 something raised to the 22nd
power Joules produced roughly 0.09 C + / - 0.045 C increase in the mean value of the upper 2000 meters of the roughly 3600 meter deep oceans over the past 50 something years based on an
imbalance estimate of 0.6Wm - 2 + / -0.4 which replaces the previous 0.9 + / - 0.15 Wm - 2 estimate which had a 95 % confidence level.