 0. Oceans accumulate heat during the day and release it at night. No amount of IR changes this basic fact, nor do all of the CO0 lasers in the world. 0. LWIR is absorbed at the interface; the 00 micron band (CO0) is absorbed within 0 microns. 0. IR energy absorbed in this minute interval is transient, being radiated or converted to latent energy within seconds. The upper three microns are evaporated in less than one half minute, given a rate of evaporation of one cm/day (typical rate on the tropics). 0. The sea surface temperature profile shows that heat is conducted from a warmer subskin to a cooler surface, night and day. 0. Convection from the subsurface occurs at night,not at day. Ocean swells are typically of a 0-0 meter amplitude and over one hundred meters length.Such geometry does not alter the surface thermodynamics. 0. The net effect of wind is to cool by increasing the rate of evaporation; the stronger the wind, the greater the rate of cooling. the above is all from standard texts and references in physics and oceanographic studies. CO0 lasers cannot burn holes in this. Reply Salvatore Del Prete says:  July 0, 0000 at 00:00 AM  