To AL GORE and his TREE HUGGERS - otec is YOUR SOLUTION to GLOBAL WARMING!!! | |
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Ocean Power (OP) User ID: 7479949 Northern Mariana Islands 12/21/2011 03:35 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Nope - Not it - Can do far more than merely produce electricity. An archived article from way back about The Mad Genius from the Bottom of the Sea Unlimited energy. Fast-growing fruit. Free air-conditioning. John Craven says we can have it all by tapping the icy waters of the deep. - [link to www.wired.com] |
Ocean Power (OP) User ID: 7479949 Northern Mariana Islands 12/21/2011 03:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | OTEC Is really cool technology as it is the one form of clean energy production (actually conversion) that provides net cooling - [link to www.popsci.com] in addition to the other advantages: carbon-free energy production and no generation of heat. In fact, the plants would cool the seas and oceans by the same amount as the energy extracted from them. - [link to www.solaripedia.com] |
Ocean Power (OP) User ID: 7479949 Northern Mariana Islands 12/21/2011 04:16 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | As the atmosphere warms, the water cycle—the process by which seawater evaporates, rains down, and then evaporates again—will intensify. Everywhere, the ocean surface will become, on average, saltier. The extra evaporated water vapor will rain down disproportionately in areas such as the tropics and Scandinavia, bringing stronger storms and more frequent floods. Meanwhile, the areas just north and south of the tropics, which already tend to be saltier than other regions, will become saltier and warmer. In the very saltiest areas, existing “desert” areas—those too salty to host most life—could grow. Low Lifes Ocean "desert" areas, pinpointed on the map above, grew from 17 million square miles in 1998 to almost 20 million in 2007. So far, scientists have been able to do about as much to reverse the intensification of the water cycle as they have to control any other aspect of the weather: not much. But one technique, Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion, or OTEC, might help. In the 1970s, engineers began using platform-based rigs to bring cold, deep water to the warm surface; the idea was that the temperature difference would drive a heat engine, generating energy. Used on a large scale, OTEC could have the healthy side effect of lower the surrounding surface temperatures, and that would be a very good thing. - [link to www.popsci.com] |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 7481619 Australia 12/21/2011 04:21 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Just like his bestest environmentalist buddies, the Rothschilds. C-Notes are GREEN. |
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