Energy From the Gulf Stream

Georgia Tech ^ | 05-12-05 | Michael Hoover

[mission9]

Now that oil is 75 dollars a barrel, and it costs fifty bucks to fuel the SUV, what about tapping the gulf stream for inexhaustable power? This nation's energy needs are growing, and national security demands that we free the electricity producers from the oil economy. Florida has ALL the free new energy it needs in the form of the Gulf Stream. This moving current of water is one thousand feet deep, twenty miles wide and three miles off Broward County. A moving current of water is 832 times more energy dense than wind. There is many times more energy in the Gulf Stream than there is found Colorado River when harvested by the Hoover Dam. Additional research is not needed; pilot programs have been tested and are viable. The state should establish a contract for an offshore energy development area then lease the zones at favorable rates. The income from the leases and electricity will help balance the national debt. The harvesting of tropical ocean heat could potentially help to reduce global warming and the intensity of hurricanes. Check out the link.

[mission9]

If the environmentalists don't want to drill for oil offshore, how about harvesting the energy for electricity directly, pollution free?

[FormerACLUmember]

mega-bump!

[Revolting cat!]

Georgia Tech ^ | 05-12-05 | Michael Hoover

Damn, Hoover, you're onto something!

[RJS1950]

Probably not, they will come up with some lower form of sealife that will be harmed by the turbines.

[Daus]

I'm sorry, but a manatee might be inconvienced so this is a non-starter. Sorry.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

If the environmentalists don't want to drill for oil offshore, how about harvesting the energy for electricity directly, pollution free?

Gee.....what if it interferes with a seagull or a fish?

[Ben Mugged]

I saw an article recently that predicted with the influx of fresh water from the polar ice caps the Gulf Stream would shut down and trigger another ice age in Europe.

Just build nukes and drill......

[Sarastro]

There is no free lunch. The gulf stream is not free energy. In the first place, it would cost a great deal to harvest the energy. In the second, every erg withdrawn from the gulf stream off Florida is not available further downstream, e.g., in Northern Europe. Result: colder Europe and political opposition.

[Mr. Jazzy]

I live in Florida and I WANT OIL RIGS off the coast with AMERICAN flags, NOT CUBAN flags!!!

I am so angry with Jeb Bush and Mel Martinez about this issue I could spit nails!!!

The Cubans are going to put up the nastiest, leaking oil platforms that will get the oil up and out the fastest and don't give a hang about the enviroment!!! They will use old Russian designed rigs ( that were American designs of the '40's and '50's!!!) and will throw them up and down the Gulf, with the aid of Chavez!

I want oil rigs and refineries with American jobs, American workers and American citizens recieving the benifit of our natural resources!!!

[litehaus]

"how about harvesting the energy for electricity directly, pollution free?"

Because, doncha know, diverting the atream will cause the UK to "freeze over." Lowering the temp of the revolving current will cause the 'far end' recipients of the stream to get COLD WATER!

Get it? The envirowhackos are right! LOL....

[mission9]

That's why you throw out there that it will reduce global warming (no joke) and balance the budget at the same time. Unassailable arguments. I just visited the Hoover Dam. If that project was possible in the 1930's (inexhaustible pollution free energy) imagine what we can do 2day!

[litehaus]

"how about harvesting the energy for electricity directly, pollution free?"

Because, doncha know, diverting the stream will cause the UK to "freeze over." Lowering the temp of the revolving current will cause the 'far end' recipients of the stream to get COLD WATER!

Get it? The envirowhackos are right! LOL....

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

I saw an article recently that predicted with the influx of fresh water from the polar ice caps the Gulf Stream would shut down and trigger another ice age in Europe.

Aerial spraying of black dust particles onto ice fields or glaciers will engineer the climates.

Some so-called experts claim soot from European industry has done that to the glaciers on that continent.

[saganite]

It will kill the fishies caught up in the turbines. Shame on you for putting our energy needs ahead of the fish!

/sarcasm/

[mission9]

To shut down the gulf stream in this target region, you would have to shut down the sun. The possibility you mention would affect the higher latitudes only, if it were ever to occur. This is similar to those who argued against the Hoover Dam because someday there may be a drought. I support Drilling and Nukes, but I also support free energy, and building a societal consensus for a progressive future.

[mission9]

I'm with you brother, let's lock arms and stage a Tallahassee sit-in.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

I want oil rigs and refineries with American jobs, American workers and American citizens recieving the benifit of our natural resources!!!

Who do you think you are anyway?

Government doesn't give a damn about you unless you're a Mexican.

Real Americans would not want to work on an oil rig and get their hands dirty.....besides it's wet out there.

Perfect jobs for Cubans and Mexicans.

[satchmodog9]

Can't wait for the first hurricane to take that sucker off line. It would of course happen during a republican administration if we ever have another.

[doorgunner69]

Clear thinking. Among other unpredictable consequences, disruption of weather patterns would occur. Same thing with massive solar power generating fields: they would reduce the temperature locally and raise havoc with weather.

[CROSSHIGHWAYMAN]

To shut down the gulf stream in this target region, you would have to shut down the sun.

Let's stop playing games here!!

The sun created all fuels...oil,gas, coal and wood from photosynthesis.

I say let's stop whining about who drills where and when.

Let's hire Burt Rutan and some Chinese and Russians to fly a ship to the sun and bring back a hunk of it.....go to the prime source!!