On 09/09/2016 07:20 AM, Tim Cutts wrote:
2. Surely, we heat up
the oceans regardless of whether it's directly by cooling with the
sea or indirectly by cooling in air, and atmospheric warming slowly
warming the oceans. Ultimately it will all come to equilibrium (with
possible disastrous consequen
A few years ago one of the fission reactors in Minnesota had to abruptly go
down for unscheduled maintenance. This happened in the middle of the
winter, and the part of the Mississippi river where the cooling water
discharge entered rapidly dropped temperature (assuming dT~25degF). There
was a la
1. We already do this for nuclear and other power stations. I remember
visiting Fawley, an old oil fired power station in the UK, back in about 1982.
Its cooling water was taken from and returned to the Solent. The increased
temperature of the water made it ideal for growing oysters, and a co
Or a 'boiling the seas and killing every living being on the land' point of
view.
Remember:
* the law if unintended consequences
* we are in the Anthropocene era
* Global data centres draw as much power as he entire country of Italy.
This would be like throwing an electric fire the size of Ital
Listening in on the heated discussion of immersive cooling while I was
sitting on the shores of Lake Superior this summer, I was reminded of a
recent NYT article on Microsoft's Project Natick:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/technology/microsoft-plumbs-oceans-depths-to-test-underwater-data-ce
