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

[Hara Ra]

"big whirls have smaller swirls
  with ever decreasing velocity
  and so on to viscosity"

Air at 10 atm is still 1/50 the density of water. Water has a very large 
specific heat, so the effect of warming is slight. The adiabatic expansion 
of the air will cool, to about the same degree.

>You are forgetting something:
>
>a) heat will be transferred to water by the bubbles, which will assist
>in its rising.
>b) as the water rises, it will decompress, which will cool the water
>back down.
>
>=====
>Mike Lorrey

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