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Title: 20,000 megawatts under the sea: Oceanic steam engines
Post by: Marlin on Mar 04, 2014, 06:06
More competition for the future energy market ???

20,000 megawatts under the sea: Oceanic steam engines

(http://www.newscientist.com/data/images/archive/2958/29580902.jpg)

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129580.900-20000-megawatts-under-the-sea-oceanic-steam-engines.html?full=true#.UxYgbuddVJV
Title: Re: 20,000 megawatts under the sea: Oceanic steam engines
Post by: GLW on Mar 04, 2014, 07:08
no,.....

those areas of the ocean which consistently produce that ΔT require pumping cold water up from depths between 2500 to 3000 feet deep,...

you already know the rest of the story;
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environmental impact,...

we will be killing off species we do not even know exist yet,...

Enter Sierra Club, Greenpeace, et al,.....

what?!?!?!?

you thought I was gonna go off on HTFF?!?!?!?!?

please, that is so yesterday,.... :P ;) :) 8)
Title: Re: 20,000 megawatts under the sea: Oceanic steam engines
Post by: Marlin on Mar 04, 2014, 07:25
Quote from: GLW on Mar 04, 2014, 07:08

we will be killing off species we do not even know exist yet,...

Enter Sierra Club, Greenpeace, et al,.....

what?!?!?!?

you thought I was gonna go off on HTFF?!?!?!?!?

please, that is so yesterday,.... :P ;) :) 8)

   We have blenderized birds with wind-farms and cooked them with death rays on solar-farms what's a little algal bloom or extinction of yet to be discovered species.

  It's a long article but some of that is addressed, the environmental impact may not be any worse than existing "green" energies.
Title: Re: 20,000 megawatts under the sea: Oceanic steam engines
Post by: GLW on Mar 04, 2014, 08:34
Quote from: Marlin on Mar 04, 2014, 07:25
  We have blenderized birds with wind-farms and cooked them with death rays on solar-farms what's a little algal bloom or extinction of yet to be discovered species.

  It's a long article but some of that is addressed, the environmental impact may not be any worse than existing "green" energies.

oh yeah I forgot, thanks for the reedumication,...

if it's green and kills birds that's okay,...

if it's black and kills birds that's bad,...

and yet the birds wonder,.....

or do they ?!?!?!?!?

 [coffee]

(sic)
Title: Re: 20,000 megawatts under the sea: Oceanic steam engines
Post by: SloGlo on Mar 05, 2014, 01:31
knot two mention getting a primary fluid leak.... ammonia astrewn at see, aye can the head lines now.
Title: Re: 20,000 megawatts under the sea: Oceanic steam engines
Post by: GLW on Mar 05, 2014, 03:22
Quote from: SloGlo on Mar 05, 2014, 01:31
knot two mention getting a primary fluid leak.... ammonia astrewn at see, aye can the head lines now.

naaah,...it's already there, the urea from the whales and the otters, and the seals and the manatees and the dugongs et al,....
Title: Re: 20,000 megawatts under the sea: Oceanic steam engines
Post by: SloGlo on Mar 07, 2014, 12:55
Quote from: GLW on Mar 05, 2014, 03:22
naaah,...it's already there, the urea from the whales and the otters, and the seals and the manatees and the dugongs et al,....
your sew write. why,eye can nearly remember last time the media flubbed a situational reality. aye believe tricky dick lost his job over it.  ;)
Title: Re: 20,000 megawatts under the sea: Oceanic steam engines
Post by: Marlin on Mar 07, 2014, 01:53
   There are two ideas in the article that are at least interesting. There is one being built to tow out to a oil drilling rig that is happening. The other is using it on a ship to harvest hydrogen from the ocean moving to conducive areas of delta-T. It seems like it is usable now for shoreline production but only in the tropics that could shift energy demand on the global market but that is not projected for a decade or two.