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CA2,958,456 2019/02/21 A method and apparatus for load balancing trapped solar energy using smallmasses of low-boiling-point fluids to absorb heat in an evaporator situated in higher heat reservoir near the ocean surface using the latent heat of evaporation to convert a portion of the heat to another form of energy in a turbine or other heat engine, providing a variety of energy related service applications to end users from the converted energy, depositing a residuallatent heat of evaporation in a deep ocean heat exchanger situated in the lower heat reservoir, using the cold seawater as a heat sink.


US20100251789A1 Global Warming Mitigation Method, The present invention provides a method of sequestering carbon dioxide and water in a desert environment. In a first step heat that would otherwise cause thermal expansion of the ocean and resultant sea level rise is extracted to produce energy. A portion of the energy is used to desalinate seawater. The desalinate water is pumped into a desert environment and vegetation is planted in the irrigated desert portion. The vegetation sequesters carbon dioxide. The seawater extracted for desalination further reduces sea level rise. Irrigation water moderates the day and nighttime temperature fluctuations of hot deserts. Lowering the daytime temperature increases the deserts potential to sequester water. The commercial and arable potential of the desert is augmented by the enrichment of its soil by composted vegetation, its irrigation and the moderation of its diurnal temperature fluctuations.

US20110036919A1 Global warming mitigation method The present invention provides a method of limiting sea level rise. In a first step heat that would otherwise cause thermal expansion of the ocean and resultant sea level rise is extracted to produce energy. The energy is used to convert a portion of the liquid ocean water to the gaseous elements hydrogen and oxygen by the process of electrolysis. The ocean level is reduced by the volume of water converted to gas. The hydrogen is captured for use as an energy source and is transported to a desert to be recombined with resident oxygen to produce energy and water for irrigation.

US20120234006A1 Ocean thermal energy conversion counter-current heat transfer system,for OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion), rather than transferring large quantities of surface heat from near the ocean surfacUS20110036919A1 Global warming mitigation method, The present invention provides a method of limiting sea level rise. In a first step heat that would otherwise cause thermal expansion of the ocean and resultant sea level rise is extracted to produce energy. The energy is used to convert a portion of the liquid ocean water to the gaseous elements hydrogen and oxygen by the process of electrolysis. The ocean level is reduced by the volume of water converted to gas. The hydrogen is captured for use as an energy source and is transported to a desert to be recombined with resident oxygen to produce energy and water for irrigation.

US20100105975A1 CA2659302A1 Nuclear Assisted Hydrocarbon Production Method, A method is disclosed for the temporary or permanent storage of nuclear waste materials comprising the placing of waste materials into one or more repositories or boreholes constructed into an unconventional oil formation. The thermal flux of the waste materials fracture the formation, alters the chemical and/or physical properties of hydrocarbon material within the subterranean formation to allow removal of the altered material. A mixture of hydrocarbons, hydrogen, and/or other formation fluids are produced from the formation. The radioactivity of high-level radioactive waste affords proliferation resistance to plutonium placed in the periphery of the repository or the deepest portion of a borehole.

CA2005376C, US5,022,788, NZ232248, Subductive waste disposal method A method for the disposal of nuclear and toxic waste materials comprising the placing of waste materials into waste repositories radiating from an access tunnel constructed into a subtending tectonic plate adjacent or as near as possible a subduction zone. The waste materials descend within the tectonic plate into the mantle of the earth.

 

The licensing of either of the last two technologies could have provided the funding necessary to solve  global warming.

 

Instead that problem and that  of nuclear waste remain unresolved.

 

 

 

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