[ExI] how to tame hurricanes

[Mike Dougherty]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 6:03 PM, spike <spike66 at att.net> wrote:

> Each wave that hits the tube circulates cooler water down only 20 meters
> below, which is about 5 to 10 C cooler.  You make jillions of these things
> that can be deployed rapidly: you stack them on the deck of a repurposed
> aircraft carrier (or any other retired warship for that matter, we don't
> need them anymore), then roll them off the deck into the water in the
> predicted path of a hurricane.  The outside would be just a straight 20
> meter long tube made of anything, polystyrene for instance, something that
> can flex a little.  Floatation devices inside the tube on one end, ballast
> if necessary at the other.  With the dimensions given, they could come in
> at
> 4 tons each, so a carrier could easily haul a few thousand of them.
>

That will be a nice recycling of your old warships.  I had a much more
aggressive recycling project in mind though:  use the various so-called
"garbage islands" as feedstock for a floating fabber to make these
devices.  Perhaps that won't populate the ocean with jillions quite as
quickly... but it puts the existing junk to better use than throwing more
plastic [and polystyrene(?!)] into the ocean.
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