Chapter 1 of Taken By Storm – Dr. Christopher Essex & Dr. Ross McKitrick, (2002), Key Porter Books Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada, opens with a description of a thunderstorm and the inability of science to understand the forces involved in that storm.
Science has published a study based on satellite estimates of global rainfall. Then calculating the frictional drag on the raindrops.
From Nature:
All the same, the total global total rate of energy dissipation from precipitation is around 10^15 watts, about 100 times the rate at which humans consume energy worldwide.
Science is getting closer to understanding that thunderstorm.
Sort of a Tesla thing?
(no I don’t understand those things well)
Expect IPCC and many governmenta to recommend capturing all that power as “renewable” in 5, 4, 3…
Note some laws would need changing: in the US, and possibly elsewhere, some local governments have made it illegal to capture rainwater – because your neighbor`s lawn mght like the run-off, or some such.
The last word (of course):
These changes might, however, be dwarfed by the wider changes to atmospheric circulation and energy flows caused by global warming, says Geraint Vaughan, an atmospheric physicist at the University of Manchester, UK. “I don’t think this mechanism will have important implications for atmospheric dynamics in a warmer world.”
Despite your lofty titles, and accepting your obvious neutrality on the subject (Google), it’s proof we want, Dr. Vaughan – what you ‘think’ just won’t suffice anymore.
$98.00 for the book on Amazon??? That is almost a big a scam as the one it is repudiating.
Texas-Canuck, try http://www.abebooks.com/
This is a great source for hard to get books. They might have some used copies kicking around.