Vortex Dynamics - The Sterling Engine

 

This is a Sterling Engine.  There is a closed working fluid, mainly air, and heat at the bottom, and ice piled on the top.  This is our model for all vortex action in the atmosphere.  Don't expect it to show up on warmie weather sites soon.

The little piston does the work, and the big thing is a displacer.  Both are vital for the engine to work.  The most basic thing in the atmosphere is the simple rain shower.  It heats air at the bottom, which rises, and cools at the top, and the air comes down, with rain.

That, unfortunately, is the extent of conventional weather physics.  To have some really good effects, we need a heat engine.  The weatherwarmies go on about how carbon warming will bring storms, and vice versa that every storm is caused by climate change, but this is a false reversal of logic.  They love that stuff.

A storm relies on the difference between the cold and hot air.  That runs the engine.  The west coast goes on about 'atmospheric rivers" that are the oceanic plumes, but no storms without a cold feed.

I just thought of this Sterling Engine idea, so you'll have to bear with me.

Our hurricane vortex is a sterling.  You can prove that by external effects.  If you really wanted to prove it, by the Scientific Method, you would need measurements.  Not going to happen, since the tiniest physics measurement totally blows out the House of Clange.

Anyway, I have to think some more.  We have to take the oscillating sterling, and turn it into a continuous vortex.  Already churning in my head.  I'm not going to say 'to be continued' because my one responder will then whine about it.  If I assume that nobody cares, then it is much more relaxing.

ps I just got a big hit of viewers because a continuous vortex sterling would make a lot of money.  Maybe some of it can go into physics.

ps I'm already seeing it.  I'm going to throw it out of my brain.  I never finish anything - too depressing.

ps ha!  I spelled it Sterling, as in silver.  Should be Stirling.  I'm leaving it because I think it should be silver.