XPost: rec.arts.sf.written, rec.arts.sf.science   
   From: seawasp@sgeinc.invalid.com   
      
   On 1/16/14 5:14 PM, Dr J R Stockton wrote:   
   > In rec.arts.sf.science message , Wed, 15 Jan   
   > 2014 07:42:14, "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)"    
   > posted:   
   >   
   >>        Are there long-term reliable salt-water turbines? Salt water's   
   >> nasty on most machines, but if you were near the ocean you could use it   
   >> as a water source. IF you also had a good location to store the water   
   >> and let it out. Which would have to be very very large for good-sized   
   >> populations.   
   >   
   >   
   > That would help, a little, with the rising-sea-level problem.   
   >   
   > But the alternative is to pump air into many large bags deep undersea,   
   > and let it out through turbines.  The bags do not need to be very   
   > strong; they don't hold the main pressure, but just keep the water and   
   > the air apart.  But they do need to be well anchored.   
   >   
   > And relatively minor modifications create the world's biggest bagpipes.   
   >   
      
      
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