TITLE:
The Role of Enthalpy of Reaction in the Process of Global Warming: What Can We Learn from Basic Thermodynamics*
AUTHORS:
Wolfram Vogelsberger
KEYWORDS:
Reaction Enthalpy, Global Temperature, Fossil Energy Carriers, Climatic Disturbance
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Chemical Engineering and Science,
Vol.11 No.1,
January
20,
2021
ABSTRACT: An increase of carbon dioxide content accompanied by an increase
of the temperature is observed in the atmosphere during the last 200 years.
This behaviour can be explained by examination of correlations between tree
generally accepted data sets of the recent past, world population, carbon
dioxide content in the atmosphere, and rise of global temperature as function
of time. No return to climate situations from hundred thousand of years before
present is necessary. The world climate is a dynamic equilibrium between all
energy generating processes on earth, especially sun energy, and the radiation
of energy into space. Since approx. 200 years the dynamic equilibrium is
changed additionally by means of fossil energy carriers, whose depots were put
on in passed geological epochs, a climatic disturbance was produced. It is
shown that the consumption of energy per year by the mankind can warm up the
atmosphere by about one degree. This quantity cannot be neglected in climatic
calculations; therefore it is the cause of mankind made warming of the atmosphere.
The qualitative analyses presented here have shown that the use of so-called
renewable energy sources does not necessarily lead to the avoidance of global
warming. It can be expected that some techniques will have no or even small
effect. Especially the model calculations to the operation of wind turbines and
its influence on the temperature of the atmosphere show that it is difficult to
estimate their influence and cannot be foreknown.