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		pjc50 on Oct 30, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Close Encounter with a Gigantic Jet Yup. That's really the only way to take energy out of the ocean. If we could somehow fill the surface of the Atlantic with turbines and wave-energy machines, perhaps we could end destructive tropical storms. But the amount of energy involved is astonishing and difficult to reason about.

novok on Oct 30, 2019 | [–]

Maybe you could use it to power ocean cleanup drones, which could use harvested material to manufacture more cleanup drone hulls.

mrfusion on Oct 30, 2019 | [–]

Not the only way. There’s been research into passively driving deep cold water up got the surface to slow down tropical storms.

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