RE: Busting hurricanes with ocean cooling pumps
This is simply a new video dramatizing this scientist's rather old,
but brilliant, idea. The Super Freakonomics (Gobal Cooling) book
details his work and the Gates and ex-Microsoft CTO funding. You can
read much of it online at Amazon, starting around page 270. I hope
the video made it clear (I have no sound) that these pumps are
simply giant inner tubes, with 600+ foot skirts. They have no moving
parts or polluting fuel. Waves of warm surface water simply pass
over one side. This makes them weaker, so less of them pass over the
opposite side. The regular addition of trapped warm surface water
pushes down the water inside the skirt. The added volume of more and
more water is all it takes to push the skirt-trapped water down and
eventually out the bottom, where it mixes with the cold water below.
It may take many of these pumps, but thus will take away the warm
water hurricanes need. I only question how you retrieve the pumps
and what happens when ships encounter them? The same section of the
book discusses other equally and cheap solutions for hurricane and
global warming. By the way, do you know that several planets and a
moon, which obviously lack man-made global warming, are warming
faster than we are? It seems that the Sun, and shifts in the Earth's
rotation, are the main causes of our probably temporary global
warming (see the book and a Climategate post at my www.QuickBooks-
Blog.com).
