to late we have been doing it for thousand of years.
Bill Gates has a hurricane stopping device...
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to late we have been doing it for thousand of years.
He is giving some of it away, primarly for tax purposes.
When he dies, he's donating the whole lot to charity, and leaving his kids with $10 million, or so I heard.
I guess he don't like the American government much! That's a lot of inheritence tax they will be missing out on.
As with all these billionaires their money isn't liquid. It is stock. When Gates gives to charity, is basically giving them MSFT stock. I guess Bill has a lot of stock to get rid of before his death.
Fair play to the fellow though, rather than pay the goverment capital gains tax or inheritence tax (which the government, being governments, would probably waste half of in red tape) he is giving it to charities.
I do have issues with charities in third world countries however. Most of the time the money goes to corrupt governments or gets siphoned off by corruption and crime lords. This is the reason I don't give to Oxfam or any other charity that operates in a third world country.
Charity begins at home. Gates' money would be better spent in America in my humble opinion.
This also reminds me. This is exactly the same idea people have got to reduce co2 levels. Pump cold nutrient water up to the surface and you will get massive algae blooms.
I Still can't see how you could pump enough water for cooling though.
I Still can't see how you could pump enough water for cooling though.
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A lot less that what it costs after a hurricane hits.
Well that would cool the sea by 4.5c, two birds with one stone?
then the sane answer would be to stop building cities in the path of hurricanes. At least stop developing the existing cities...
Reminds me of all the houses in the UK built on flood planes... Duh!
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Sane?
considering the volume of water that would have to be cooled i expect it would cost a lot more. How many thousands of ships would they need? how many cubic miles of water would they actually need to cool?? The whole idea seems beyond our technology.
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And what of the lives that would be saved?
Is that not more important?
This isn't just something to be built because it may blow their potted plants over.
This is what I'm thinking. Doesn't a hurricane/weather system form over a huge expanse of seas.
It's one of those things that would probably save money over a very long time period. But the set up cost would be astronomical.
I certainly wouldn't say beyond are technology.many many things are totally within are technology. But not with in budget.
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A lot of things we have today have been beyond our technology.
and if it cost $100 billion, $1 trillion, more???
very few people die in hurricanes.
maybe i'm missing some subtle detail but saying 'oh all we have to do is cool the ocean 4.5 degrees' is easy - doing it, even in a local area, is next to impossible.
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Deaths that don't need to happen if this comes into effect.
If it was next to impossible, it wouldn't be happening.
You've missed his point entirely. At one point, all we have now was beyond our technology. It is only when we push the tech we have now and develop it further that we can develop new tech.
Obviously, but a lot of things were beyond our technology, just think of now, and think of cavemen. A huge change of technology, yeah that was a lot of many years ago, but look at recent technology. Although what Bill Gates and his team are trying to plan to do maybe an enormous task. So were many other things which us humans have achieved.
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Unfortunately lifes do have a value and it's not a huge amount. Otherwise it would destroy economies.
It is only being protected. So they obviously think in principle it would work. But scalable or financially viable is a different matter.
no new technology is being suggested, only ships with pumps. I'm saying that, due to the enormous energies involved, there probably aren't enough pumps or ships in the world to actually make a meaningful difference.