How to PREVENT HURRICANES generate cheap energy, eliminate OPEC & Global Warming and gobs more good stuff to save the planet from certain doom.

Through much of the tropical ocean-not owned by any country-nutrient-rich fluids are available a few hundred meters below the surface. At depths of 1000 meters in the tropical belt, the available temperature differential provides a mechanism-called ocean thermal energy conversion, or OTEC-to move this cold, rich, pathogen-free fluid to the surface. Should it prove to be economically attractive to build large floating platforms to tap the combined resources of sunlight, deep ocean water, and seabed resources, the result could be a cornucopia of integrated products, covering the spectrum of seafood, biofuels, clean chemicals, hydrogen, biopharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, strategic metals, and fresh water(Takahashi, 1994)...

These same marine systems, which would for good reason be placed at the equatorial belt, might also cool the surface of those ocean regions responsible for generating typhoons and hurricanes(Takahashi, 1996). All the hurricanes which visit the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and eastern coastline of the United States form just off Africa, while those that cause havoc in Hawaii come from a relatively small area off the Mexican Coast, although the particularly disastrous Iniki, it is believed, might have had African origins. If the temperature of the ocean surface can be kept below 26.8¢J, these storms do not form. - [link to www.clubdesargonautes.org]