Climate Change - An Immediate Solution:  How to Cool the Planet 

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The sun is hot, unimaginably hot.  So hot that even the small percentage of radiated heat that reaches the Earth has a dramatic effect on all life on the planet.  When the heat from the sun is low, as in the winter, humans can dress in heavy clothing or seek shelter in a heated structure.  When a lot of heat reaches the Earth, as in the summer,  people begin to take off clothing to the extent that society allows and seek relief from the heat in artificially cooled shelters. We can easily regulate the temperature inside manmade structures.  But what about the rest of the planet?   If the planet gets too cold, animals and plants die and there is a shortage of food. If the planet gets too hot, the polar ice caps melt and the oven level rises and the weather gets very bad.

Trapped heat in the lower atmosphere is one of the reasons the planet is undergoing climate change – the globe is becoming much warmer, and the resulting chaos to weather patterns is predicted to be dire – much, much stronger storms, drought, rising sea levels, etc.  

It would seem what is needed is a way to regulate the planetary temperature. This idea may sound a bit like science fiction, but it really is not fantastic at all. Technology currently exist to warm the planet up and cool the planet down.  And while there may arise the issue of who gets to set the thermostat, that question is not our current concern.

We at Novamir believe we have a viable part of a workable solution - in reality, there will probably need to be a mix of projects employed to address and redress climate change.  Novamir suggests developing and employing photovoltaic cells that absorb incoming and outgoing infrared energy, thereby preventing it from reaching the atmosphere and getting trapped by CO2.  By absorbing infrared energy so that it is not radiated back into the atmosphere, less heat will be trapped in the lower atmosphere, thereby slowing, if not eliminating, global warming.

Photovoltaic, or solar, cells can be designed to absorb light of different frequencies.  The frequency of light indicates what category the light falls into, from ultraviolet light to visible light to the infrared portion of the spectrum.  Our photovoltaic cells would absorb the longer-wave, infrared energy, and convert this infrared  energy, or radiant heat energy, into electricity.

During the days of the Soviet Union the Soviet military conducted a great deal of  scientific research during the Cold War, and much of this technology has been commercialized and is now in use all over the world, while some of the research is still awaiting utilization.  What better application than to derive a technology from the research that once nearly destroyed the planet and use it to save the world:  the Cold War combats Global Warming.

How so?  Well, Soviet scientists were told to find a solution to a critical problem: during the Cold War, both the US and Soviet militaries got very good at locating the other side’s equipment by detecting the equipment’s “heat signature” -  heat the equipment emitted.  Many methods of suppressing or eliminating this heat signature were tested, but none worked as well as the technology we believe can cool the planet.  Scientists designed a tank so that the exhaust would be routed through a special ceramic material, which then converted the convection/conduction heat to radiated/infrared energy. The infrared energy was focused toward special photovoltaic material, which then converted the infrared energy to electrical current.  The electrical power could then be stored in batteries for later use or disposal.  

Calculations have been performed suggesting such a method could be used to lower the Earth’s temperature – a “Global Temperature Regulation” project.