Hurricane Damping and Prevention

SwissInvents Project Idea for Google's 10^100 Challenge. Hurricane Damping and Prevention by cooling down the sea surface. Reducing number and strength of hurricanes impacting coastal regions through wind powered pumps distributing cold deep sea water on the ocean surface.
The project aims to control formation and strength of cyclones by cooling the sea surface with 6 °C cold water from depths, less than 1000m, pumped up by floating, mobile and steerable offshore platforms with tubes, reaching down to the required depth and importantly, using the same platforms also to produce clean, renewable energy.

In future, some of the fleets would evolve into sea based, floating cities, using some of the locally produced energy, living on aqua culturing and fish farming. Properly built, the growing islands could enhance cyclone control and strengthen the albedo effect to reduce global warming.

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[astrialkil]

I just love how ego maniacs think they can micro manage every thing! Jerseytropics comments are right on ! Safer houses that can deal or rise above storm surge covered with solar "paint" would be far more cost effective and safer.

[SwissInvent]

@astrialkil Building safer houses is certainly a good thing at least for people who can afford it. But you will need also to protect the economy around your houses - agriculture, industry and infrastructure.

[SwissInvent]

I'd love to see the project having such a quantitative impact :-) Investing in renewable energies is very important, but there's a long way to go from today's fossil energy usage to a point, where global warming is reversed. What is the humanitarian and ECOLOGICAL toll of tropical storms yearly damaging coastal regions? It's huge - yet we will have such destruction for many years to come. Producing clean energy while caring for people and resources (land!) wisely is just the core of the project.

[listen2meokidoki]

@SwissInvent What a load of twaddle. 1. The design is NOT cylone-proof. Rough seas will DESTRY it. 2. The quantity of cold water would be huge. 3. Cold water sinks. You cold H2O would soon sink and be covered by warm H2O on a LOCAL scale smaller than a Cyclone. 4. DO NOT go back to the drawing board. Move to within 8 degrees of the equator where there are no Cyclones.

[SwissInvent]

@listen2meokidoki The clip is an artist's visualization of a concept - I like it very much. It has little to do with technical design. The way cold water has to be introduced on the surface would need research to optimize damping. It occurs naturally, when cyclones pass through an area, where the sea surface was cooled by rain. Finally, don't worry, about me wasting time on the drawing board, there is no funding. Maybe all money is going in to your huge population relocation project :-)

[jerseytropics]

What will happen with the algae bloom that comes from the nutrient rich water being pumped up from the deep? It could help with global warming by sequestering co2 but it could also acidify the water killing reefs, and eventually fish. Another thing that could happen is an enhanced bloom of Caulerpa taxifolia aka "killer algae" I think it would be better if you tried to increase the albedo of the earth above the water, which will bounce energy back into space and cool the surface at the same time

[SwissInvent]

Pumping up cold seawater would only be done when tropical storm conditions indicate it. If geothermal energy would be produced too, close circuits could re-insert the water at the respective extraction site. Coastal regions (Caulerpa taxifolia) are not affected, the platforms would operate offshore. When dispersing water to damp tropical storms, a lowered surface temperature would mean slower algae growth too. Albedo enhancing would be a future side effect if thousands of platforms are deployed.

[astrialkil]

@SwissInvent Your assuming man has caused all these storms, they had bad storms in the 1500 before industrial pollution. the storms happen in-spite of man not because of him.

[jerseytropics]

You can't really say coastal regions will not be affected, the water picked up into the storm will be deposited through the area affected by the storm, including coastal regions. Not to mention the affect the storm has on currents and tides.

I just think that this project is too immense to be practical when some simple architectural reform and investment in nanosolar technologies can solve all the problems in a more affordable way than this would attempt to solve in a largely experimental way.