Re: A weird power generation idea

You would need a whole lot bigger area that a fabric tube to get enough
energy to bother. If you want to take advantage of temperature differental
for energy production it's a lot easier to go reverse. Lay some pipes into
the deep ocean where the water temp is low.

"Dan J.S." <me@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> <dbohara@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Maybe I've been thinking about hurricanes too much but:
>>
>> Hurricanes are powewred by the release of energy stored in water vapor
>> as latent heat. Water vapor can store a huge amount of energy even
>> though the temp increase may be small. Condesning the vapor releases
>> that energy. So......
>> In a place like Fl where the atmosphere even at considerabel altitude
>> can have very high relative humidity, raise a very tall hollow
>> cylinder, basically a smokestack in reverse. It could just be fabric
>> lifted by balloons. A few hundred feet below the top opening, we have
>> cooling coils through which we pump cool seawater. This condenses
>> water vapor that then falls as rain within the tube turning a turbine
>> at the bottom. The flow of air down the tube sucks more air in like a
>> smokestack in reverse.
>>
>> Maybe I've just worked too much this week.
>>
>
> Someone recommended that we drag a big glacier and plant it in the middle
> of the gulf. Just a 3 degree water change would drastically decrease
> hurricane strength... there are many wild ideas... one of them will have
> to be implemented...
>


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