With out a doubt they work! :shrug: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fh_RXiEinU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6O6UHpKT_E
Here are a few of the things they can do for us.. They are used for generating electrical power for the entire East coast thus lowering massive amounts of GHGs and at the same time upwell massive amounts of cold water if needed to do the following, weaken hurricanes prior to landfall,limiting the number of tornadoes and severe thunderstorms per year, reverse the trend in coral bleaching,raise ocean PH making it less acidic and restoring summer Northern Arctic Ice levels to pre-industrial revolution levels. The list is very very long!
Do you want to provide some background? Some meaningful references? Some explanation? At the moment your mainly emitting greenhouse gases out of your rectum.
If placed in the gulfstream there are two phases of operation. Cooling and Non- Cooling phase. In cooling phase it upwells cooler water to the surface to regulate Sea Surface temps anywhere between 70 and 90 degrees to the nearest 1/10 of a degree while generating enormous amounts of hydroelectrical power from the Kinetic energy in the gulfstream current. In non-cooling phase just the warm water flows through it but it still generates the electrical power. They actually regulate climate to what we want.
But the electricity will flow back as heat eventually. Earth is a closed system in that sense I think.
Correct! However, it allows it to flow back out to space more efficient as GHGs trap that heat and the tunnels remove that GHG blanket!
Unfortunately we just spend all our money on developing a new fighter plane, and fighting some pointless wars. Could the people of the world set up a website where they can donate? If everyone donates 1€ we will have 6 billion euros. And then the people of the world can just build it themselves.
Using this device on a significant scale will have unpredictable effects on the ocean. Similarly, scientists have yet to fully explore OTEC (Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion), which conducts the surface heat down to the depths. These tunnels will supposedly do all these amazing things at the surface, and at the same time, will bring massive amounts of nutrients, chemistry and life from the depths to the surface. What are the consequences? And the other side of the coin is that it will send more warm waters down there. What will it do to the ocean depths? Scientists need to discuss the warming of the ocean depths so that they can seriously consider tunnels and OTEC. Otherwise, this quick fix will almost certainly have negative long-term repercussions. The nature of the oceans' depths are currently in equilibrium. The word "equilibrium" is very important here, and humans, in their short-sightedness, tend to disrupt the equilibrium of larger and larger ecosystems as time goes by.
Heat rises in the ocean also so it gets emitted to space more efficiently since the GHG blanket gets thinner with them in operation! BTW hurricanes also do this by bringing nutrient rich upwelled waters to the surface thus allowing sea life to flourish and feast on the upwelled organisms. It is a good thing not a bad thing!
Don't forget that every current meanders quite allot during the year so that "tunnel" will have to be really extremely HUGE! They can meander over 50 miles at times.
The Gulfstream is about 40 miles wide between Florida and the Bahamas there are MANY tunnels spanning that width to capture that energy.
But it to meanders so the size of that tunnel would have to be over 50 miles wide! That's not going to be very easily done and just how long would it last if they did build it?
The are Many tunnels spanning the full width of the Gulfstream! How can it meander 50 miles when it is only 40 miles wide between the Bahama bank and Florida bank? With cathodic protection they last as long as modern day power plants.
