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| 2005/9/22-23 [Science/Disaster, Science/GlobalWarming] UID:39817 Activity:high |
9/22 Ok, so we've established that the nukular option against the
hurricane is lame. How about effective ways to HARNESS the
awsome energy from the hurricane? What are some things that
could be effective? Portable windmills? Wave energy collection?
\_ I'd post my idea for a giant blimp array, but you guys will just
make fun of me.
\_ Think of it like harvasting lightning for power. The key word
is substainability.
\_ Windmills might work if they are rigid enough, since they can work
with other winds when there is no hurricane. Another approach I can
wildly imagine is to build a large array of smaller and somewhat
flexible windmills so that they don't break in a hurricane.
\- given that hurricanes generate more energy than the all of
humanity needs at that moment, how would you store it ... or
would you just run high energy physics experiments durning
hurricanes?
hurricanes? --psb
\_ Pump water from lower ground to higher ground. It's not like
windmills can tap anywhere close to 100% of the hurricanes'
energy output anyway.
\- remind me why were are using hurricane power instead of say
wave power?
\_ I'll remind you that we aren't actually using
either.
\- remind me why were are using hurricane power instead
of say wave power? --psb
\_ No one has developed a working large scale model for
chaging wave power to something more useful. The large
models that have been tested have been very
disappointing.
\_ Somehow, the image of Igor waiting for a hurricane to make
landfall before raising the platform just lacks poetry. -gm
\_ A gigantic propeller! The size of the whole huricane! That
floats along with it! Yeah!
\_ Just use solar power. The amount of energy from sunshine on
a city in a day is about equal to an atomic bomb.
\_ Igor, fetch me an atomic bomb. Or we could just use...
HAMSTER POWER. -John
\_ Lighting rods hooked into your zed-pm.
\_ Just don't ground them into the ocean by accident. |
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