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That
pesky Newton guy again: in this situation, what would happen to the waste heat?
If you use cool water to cool spaces, you'll end up with hot water. Would there
be a concern with algae blooms and other waste heat concerns as you pump all the
hot water back into the ocean? Would that continue to warm the oceans? Or am I
being naive? I know the sheer volume of the oceans could absorb a few gigaunits
of heat energy, but could it absorb, say, even half of California's
waste heat without a noticeable change in patterns or currents? Anyone want to
try numbers? (Notme!)
Limitless offshore energy - ocean water
district cooling
- the California clean energy
solution?
Building cooling with
electricity and air-conditioning should be outlawed.
All we need to do to have all the
equivalent benefit as air-conditioning is to pump the [ocean's] cooling water to the
buildings.
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