[gt1370a]

200 turbine engines are supposed to make a difference? Remember those satellite images showing Katrina taking up the whole Gulf of Mexico? 200 freaking barges? Come on. This is like the idea to just blow up the hurricane with a nuclear bomb, it's trivial compared to the size and force of a hurricane.

Also, has anyone thought through the business model? Revenue sources, who is going to pay for this? (probably the stupid f'ing government, they'll do anything as long as it doesn't make any sense). Success factors, how do you even measure success? If there are no major hurricanes like the last couple of years you claim it's working? If there is a major hurricane you claim it would have been much worse without this?

This is idiotic.

[frankthetank]

Let me know how it turns out bill. The guy must really like pissing money away.

[ian807]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jbrovont', 'W')arm water is denser than cool water, thus the pumping to exchange them will expend energy. In order to exchange enough water to alter surface temperatures enough to remove the energy that drives a hurricane, you'd have to expend roughly the same amount of energy to overcome the difference in buoyancy...unless the atmospheric conditions were cool enough you didn't need to...in which case they wouldn't support a hurricane anyway.

How much oil would we have to burn to equal the energy released during Katrina anyway? Or is the idea to deploy nuclear powered ships to an explosive hot zone for treacherous seas?

Fault me if I'm wrong here, please. Otherwise this seems like a contender for a complete waste of time. Why not just stop building where hurricanes are apt to make landfall? Seems like that would be a lot cheaper.

[jbrovont]

Right yeah - I do have that backwards - sorry I was pretty tired
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Tanada', 'A')ctually you have that backwards, cold water is denser that is why it sinks to the bottom and stays there on its own. --snip-- A few tens of thousands of those all driven by waves and you will create a cold patch on the surface without using artificial energy to do so.

[joewp]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'M')icrosoft founder, Bill Gates, has turned his attention and deep pockets to controlling hurricanes with a new invention.

[bodigami]

hasta la vi$ta window$hit, courte$y of microviru$

note: I use Mac OS X and live in a country that doesn't have had any serious hurricanes...

how many Katrinas do U$Army needs to pay for its karma of Climate Change and the BLOOD 4 OIL program they got back in the Middle East. Not that I$lam is any different, assasin are specialist muslim human predators.

to all APEX Predators: you got pwned by someone who doesn't even need weapons... well, besides controlling the wheather (or being in synch with it)

i will travel in a gondola to italia, passing through the bahamas but without passing to U$A.

[pablonite]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('joewp', 'D')o we really want the man responsible for Windows '95, '98 Millennium Edition Vista, and all those other atrocities messing with our weather?

[vaseline2008]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('The Article', 'T')he patents describe a system that would place as many as 200 turbine engine barges in a path of a raging hurricane, and designed to then pump chilled water from its depth to the ocean’s surface negating the hurricane’s source of strength. The Vessels could be towed, dropped by planes or submerged in the ocean until needed.

[bodigami]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vaseline2008', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('The Article', 'T')he patents describe a system that would place as many as 200 turbine engine barges in a path of a raging hurricane, and designed to then pump chilled water from its depth to the ocean’s surface negating the hurricane’s source of strength. The Vessels could be towed, dropped by planes or submerged in the ocean until needed.

[deMolay]

Now we know what Bill Gates does with his days off. Bill;s a DOOMER. http://www.marketwatch.com/story/wwiii- ... 2009-09-29

[timmac]

As stated in article >> Our leaders need "the courage to practice long-term thinking, and to make bold, courageous, anticipatory decisions at a time when problems have become perceptible but before they reach crisis proportions."


Yea like that will ever happen..

[Ludi]

Problems have been "perceptible" since the 1960s.

http://www.rachelcarson.org/

[vaseline2008]

Just thought that I would throw this out here. He doesn't address Peak Oil, however it is energy related.

Bill Gates TED2010

[Plantagenet]

BIll Gates, founder of Microsoft, now heads up a company designing small nuclear power plants that Bill Gates says will solves our energy problems.
Bill Gate's new nuclear power plants run on nuclear waste

One of the big knocks on nuclear power is that they produce high level radioactive waste. BIll Gate's new design runs on high level nuclear waste. You would no longer have to store dangerous nuclear waste---you would use it as fuel.

Fuel these little puppies up nuclear waste, bury them underground, seal them in with concrete with only two wires coming up out of the ground, hook it up, and power your factory/home/hospital/university/whatever. For a hundred years. No maintainance needed. No bugs. No problems.

Bill Gates has a proven record of success. He is bringing us our new nuclear future---if we want to win the energy future we would be wise to listen to Bill Gates and his ideas.

[Carlhole]

+

[mos6507]

Yay! We're saved! I knew "they would think of something."

Does that mean you'll be leaving us now, Planty, since doom is no more?

[vision-master]

Also, there are numerous patents being filed outside of the USA on these 'cold fussion' TYPES of energy systems. Once they are put into production (note the production part), otherwise they are just hype. BUT, then yeah, if this happens oil will be a non-issue. Oh, I know peakers have a hard time with this, but maybe, just maybe it will happen within 10 years time.

[hcholm]

Great! Now how do you make fertiliser and plastic with this stuff, and what does it take in money (another QE?) and fossil fuel to rebuild the world's energy infrastructure so that it can use this instead of oil and NG?

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('mos6507', 'Y')ay! We're saved! I knew "they would think of something.".... doom is no more?

[Plantagenet]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('hcholm', 'G')reat! Now how do you make fertiliser and plastic with this stuff,