RE: Busting hurricanes with ocean cooling pumps
While this sounds like a good way to lessen the impact of hurricanes yet still allowing them to occur, I wonder about the impact to what is an essentially natural phenomenon. Storms and hurricanes are destructive, yes, but as always with the ecosystem, such activities can also be part of a system of removal and renewal.
I sympathize with those who have lost lives or property to such natural disasters but I often wonder if we don't bring this amount of ruin upon ourselves by stubbornly clinging to living in places where the probability of such weather is higher and loss to the elements more likely.
For instance, New Orleans is a city that exists only because the ocean has been barricaded. The city itself is mostly below sea level. Yet, instead of admitting that living there poses a higher risk than living further away from the shore and above sea level, and determining it might be better altogether to relocate somewhere else,we decide there is no way we could possibly leave a particular chunk of ground, even if it will cost more to rebuild than to pick up and go elsewhere.
Also, I am curious about the rings impact on shipping. What will happen if a ship moves through a group of rings? Will the rings somehow damage the ship or be towed somewhere where they are no longer effective and may cause a different problem somewhere else. What impact would their be on the marine life? Any chance of animals being trapped or else making the ring their home and decreasing its effectiveness?
Ken Caldera is to be commended for finding a relatively simple solution to a human problem. But I think we need to be very certain that the justification for deploying it balances the needs of all of the ecosystem, not just people.
