Peter - the perpetual techno-optimist...!!
have you any idea of the volumes of water involved in the gulf stream??????
Imagine the volume of Sydney harbour going past every second.....
oh - and where exactly are we going to get the resources to build such a
humongous system??? - CO2 releases involved... get the idea??
Hugh
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> Clean water ,clean energy ,and the solution for the
>gulfstream slowdown:
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>Put in sea a construction of windmills combined with electric
>boilers, these get preheated by suncollectors and sunmirrors.
>the steam they produce gets used by steam engines wich produce again
>electricity ,salt and when you condesate the steam coming from the
>steam engines sweet water.
>The salt water you take out of salt water coming from the warm
>gulfstream and the left over salt from the steam engines gets used to
>release in the cold stream.
>So the cold stream gets saltier again and and won't mingel with the
>warm gulfstream becaurse before it was less saltier caursed by the
>melting gletchers and slowing down the warm gulfstream becaurse less
>saltier water is lighter.
>Preventing an possibel iceage.
>The sweet water can then be used to make hydrogen ,so if there is
>for exampel a lot of wind and you don't need all that electricity ,
>you are abel to stock it and use it later.
>The rest of the water can with adding of minnerals serve as drinking
>water.
>The oxygen deriving from turning water into hydrogen can be devided
>in sea to clean the water and to make more suitebel for marinelife.
>So you produce electricity and drinking water
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