"Who gave us the stomach to drink up the ocean?"
-- Nietzsche
This is another interesting back of envelope calculation:
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Power Required To Draw Down All 7 of the 7 Seas
Jul 01, 2016
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Sheesh, just pull the plug and let gravity do it!
Alternatively dredge artificial islands off shore.
It would wreak havoc to sea floor marine life but would bring instant relief to those flooded out of low lying coastal areas.
Every country that had a shallow off shore area would have an incentive to dredge some islands.
Something like a million dredges going 24/7 would be enough to stop SLR.
Bret Cahill
Build loads of nuclear power plants, distill seawater, sell as bottled water to landlocked cities :D
Michael
Just keep letting the snow keep piling up in Antarctica. That's free.
John Larkin Highland Technology, Inc
picosecond timing precision measurement
jlarkin att highlandtechnology dott com
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Salinity is 2X ocean level around the Arabian peninsula due to poor circulation + desalination.
Bret Cahill
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