About the founder
Lawrence Murray
Cooling Earth's founder, Lawrence Murray, has worked to make life and Earth better since 1968 when he asked his mom to stop using hair spray that was destroying the ozone. He has built an ethanol still, worked on two co-gen plants in California and saved over $4 million in electricity for his employers and the state's energy grid. He has become an expert in the field of GeoEngineering and is learning about charities and IP.
The energy crisis, as Murray sees it today, is like the 4 million tons of horse manure removed from New York city in the early 1900s. He has made several proposals to build a solar steam power plant at Cal Expo in Sacramento, California. His technology to combat global warming is introduced on this web site by license agreement. The technology includes many little projects that make the big projects a home run-grand slam.
Murray is the inventor of the Atmospheric Clean-up MachineTM. This came about as he studied to build a new type of aircraft in the 1980s and combined that with the technology from obtaining an EPA license. Murray is actively working to build the Cooling Earth Foundation, to bring this technology to the forefront, and to file for patent protection.
A Stationary Engineer with years of electrical experience, Murray is also an Electrical Contractor with an EPA license, and he is a California Certified Electrician. He holds an AA degree in Social Science (Economics) and an AS in Math and Physical Science (Engineering Tech). Murray was also part of an engineering team at American River College that won the engineering phase of the Human Power Vehicle competition in 1991. He has completed advanced coursework in safety and energy efficiency and conservation.
The bottommost images of the Earth shown here are, left and right respectively, the North Pole and the South Pole.
Views of the Globe
Modeled from Digital Elevation Data
A texture-mapped, orthographic-projection view was used for rendering the images. This (v2) version of the images now displays the full 2-minute horizontal and 16-bit resolution of the ETOPO2v2 (2006) vertical data. The center viewpoints of the globes step 90° of longitude from 0° East around the world eastward to 90° West. Viewpoint latitudes step ±45° either side of the Equator, and directly over the Equator and each pole. As rendered for these images, each pixel covers at least a 3.44 minute square on the earth's surface. An arbitrary color palette was chosen to give a natural look to the continents and oceans, and the colors were assigned according to elevation. The spacing of the gridded data varies from 2 minutes (2 n. mi. or 3.66 km at the Equator) for the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Ocean floors and all land masses to 5 minutes for parts of the Southern Ocean floor. Most ocean data points were taken from 2-minute gridded ocean depths derived from satellite altimery of the sea surface between 64° N and 72°S; Seafloor data northward from 64° North are from the International Bathymetric Chart of the Arctic Ocean (IBCAO) Version 1. Land data are from the GLOBE 30-second grid.