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Page 15 of 18 The solution to global warming was known 400 years ago. 
Nature does not convert Q to Wmec the way we do it. Torricelli (1608-47), inventor of the barometer (Fig.020) already noticed that high pressure (H) weather (Fig.030), was usually sunny, clear and calm, low pressure weather (L) cloudy, stormy and cold. He proposed a sort of first First Law of Thermodynamics. Some of the Q absorbed by air in H weather is converted into storm-wind- Wmec in L weather. Q + Wmec remain more or less constant. This interested sailors and farmers. They helped Torricelli to track winds and measure Ps and Ts. They found out that winds turn one way (counter clockwise) in L weather, the other in H weather. 
One Torricelli's friends, Branca, suggested a turbine (from Latin turbo, whirlwind- Fig.040) which should have converted Q in ambient air into propulsion Wmec Branca's auto-mobile ("carro semovente") was intended to be wind propelled ("il motore con il vento"). The application of vertical rotors on both sides of a road vehicle had already been proposed by Roberto Valturio (1405-1475) as early as 1460. It appears that most of [Branca's] ideas were never carried out, including his ... self-moving car [G11]. The gearing between the turbine and the cylinder beneath the head served two purposes- producing useful energy to drive a pestle-mortar arrangement and converting kinetic energy into heat in the cylinder- possibly by friction or an Archimedes spiral compressor. That gearing and cyclinder thus served as a rudimentary anticyclone- it could have had no other purpose. The fire under the head would only have been used during start-up. This arrangement almost certainly proves that the Italians knew how to produce useful energy from ambient heat about 400 years ago. F Verbiest, a Jesuit missionary, used the Branca turbine to power the very first automobile ever built- in 1681 in Peking, China. It was steam, rather than ambient heat, powered. It probably did not have the anticyclone turbine to cylinder kinetic energy to heat return. J Black named latent heat in 1750. J Espy proved in 1841 that cyclones had to be latent heat powered [G08]. There is no other source of heat to drive them in the stationary wet warm air in which they start. They create their own internal low P and power themselves as they whirl down into that low P. Cooling must be massive inside a cyclone if much rain falls out of it. But it is volume, rather than T, cooling because LQ is volume Q. Atmospheric P helps dive a cyclone because air inside it shrinks at almost constant P as rain condenses out inside it.
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