[extropy-chat] FWD [PvT] Re: Anti-hurricane engineering

[J. Andrew Rogers]

On Sep 21, 2004, at 1:42 PM, Johnius wrote:
> 	A low-cost, low-energy way to eliminate the warm surface water,
> 	where it would otherwise soon be feeding a hurricane or other
> 	tropical disturbance, is to cause the water to 'turn over.'
> 	This is done by pumping compressed air down toward gulf or sea
> 	bottom and releasing it. The cooler waters come to the top and
> 	the hurricane loses its energy over them to become disorganized
> 	squalls."


Where do you dump the very substantial waste heat from the pumping 
operation?  This idea reads as thermodynamically untenable to me.

j. andrew rogers