Natural Geoengineering
World Climate Research Program conference poster presents the hypothesis that tidal forcing is the common mechanism of global cooling in interannual, millennial, and orbital time scales: DUKE POSTER 2011 WCRP conference .
Also see:
Climate of the Past Discussions, 6, 905-961, 2010 .
The above Natural Geoengineering proposal could work in the same way as Earth’s natural mechanism of global cooling.
Patents
US. Pat. 4,884,800 ROWING MACHINE / President of WaterRower Inc. 1988 - 1998, see waterrower.com
US Pat. 6,407,749 COMBINED SCROLL AND ZOOM METHOD AND APPARATUS
US Pat. 6,602,168 FLEXION EXTENSION EXERCISER
US Pat. 8,421,260 HYDROKINETIC TURBINE FOR LOW VELOCITY CURRENTS
US Pat. 8,939,804 WAVE-POWERED AUTONOMOUS PLANKTON COLLECTOR
US Pat. 8,978,655 INTEGRAL VALVE EFFECT RESPRATOR
US Pat. 9,586,084 EXERCISE ROCKING CHAIR / President of Tilt Active Corp. 2020 - present, see tiltactive.com
US Pat. 9,709,024 VORTEX ENERGY RECOVERY TURBINE
US Pat. 9,776,710 WINGTIP VORTEX DRAG REDUCTIOIN METHOD USING BACKWASH CONVERGENCE
US Pat. 11,097,150 THREE - DIMENSIONAL ROCKING CHAIR WITH VARIABLE CURVATURE BASE FOR ABDOMINAL EXERCISE
Sculpture to bring awareness of living on a moving object
Earthwise Clock
STATOR
2023 pine prototype 30 x 82 x 22 in.
Latitude specific fabrication in welded aluminum, Port Orford cedar, or ferro-cement (larger scale).
Also oriented east-west and inclined parallel to the plane of the equator, OBLIQUITY has facetted surfaces on which shadow movement shows progression of the seasons, see OBLIQUITY diagram. If seen as a natural outcrop, the central north-south plane is a slip fault that marks passage below the sun every day.
OBLIQUITY
Sculpture for perceptual juxtaposition
LOW POINT
2023 plywood prototype 32” x 32” x 16”
A perspective illusion.
To be fabricated as mating sections in welded steel and aluminum joined by copper wire sutures.
Early July
After solstice
Early September
Before equinox
Late September
After equinox
Winter progression begins on underside
Manufactured 2003
DOOR
2023 plywood prototype 44” x 96” x 4”
A perspective illusion.
Material to be determined.
2023 plywood 4 X 16 ft prototype to be Corten steel slab oriented east-west and inclined parallel to plane of equator, so upper surface is in summer sunlight and lower surface is in winter sunlight. The sight tube frames the North Star. Ground wave form “wake” shows eastward rotation of Earth surface .