Hurricane Disasters To Be Avoided With Bill Gates' Ocean Pumps

[DeathscytheX 9,732]

http://gizmodo.com/5561028/hurricane-disasters-to-be-avoided-with-bill-gates-ocean-pumps

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Hurricane Disasters To Be Avoided With Bill Gates' Ocean PumpsBill Gates, since leaving the helm of Microsoft, has been busy plowing his money into well-deserved environmental issues such as the artificial clouds project, and ocean pumps which could (almost) halt hurricanes in their tracks.

While Gates didn't come up with the idea (instead, it was Stanford University's Ken Caldeira), the investment is sure to make a huge difference to the project, which could have major benefits to the whole world—not just the hurricane-stricken coastal areas of the US.

The pumps work by cooling the surface temperature of the ocean down, which makes hurricanes less volatile. Rather that stopping hurricanes completely, Caldeira's work should see hurricanes fizzle out sooner, and be less serious than previous titans of Mother Nature's.

[Myk JL 1,731]

I'll wait for the Apple version... bad joke...

Edited June 12, 2010 by Myk JL

[Ladywriter 7,783]

7.o ne?

be great if they could get it up n running

[Khellendross 1,260]

my only worry is if they're cooling off the surface temps, that heat has to go somewhere, they'll be warming up the bottom layers of the ocean, melting the frozen methane located at the bottom of the ocean would be rather bad (methane is ALOT better than Carbon Dioxide at trapping heat)

Global warming in high gear should that happen

[Sledgstone 8,672]

Interesting concept. I could see it working, but I wonder about what impact there could be to underwater currents. I wonder if oil would clog the pumps too.