How do you stop a mile in diameter bag of fresh water

stahrwe · Fri Mar 05, 2010 2:19 pm

This one is really for RT.
I am curious how you would stop and drain a bag of water a mile in diameter floating in the ocean?

thanks

Interbane · Fri Mar 05, 2010 3:54 pm

I like this game.

How about; hire 10,000 thirsty australians and give them very long straws.

Or tie a rope to it and make sure it loops around the continent as it's traveling. 'lasso the landmass'

stahrwe · Sat Mar 06, 2010 2:22 pm


	Interbane wrote: I like this game. How about; hire 10,000 thirsty australians and give them very long straws. Or tie a rope to it and make sure it loops around the continent as it's traveling. 'lasso the landmass'

The problem with the rope idea is that the weight of the water in the container is 4.6 trillion pounds or 2 billions tons, that is the equivalent of 16,000 QE2's. Tell me you have a rope that will hold that. No such thing.

Robert Tulip · Sun Mar 07, 2010 4:15 am

The patent drawings at http://rtulip.net/ocean_based_algae_pro ... nal_patent include a tidal pump. Sitting on the continental shelf, such pumps can use the gravitational energy of the moon and sun to shift water from an ocean mile wide bag into the reticulation system on land.

Large bags in the ocean would not stop, but would continue to move in the currents, which in the case of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current has 600 times the water volume of the Amazon River.

Waterbags, such as those described at http://www.waterbag.com, can transfer water from a mile wide sphere at sea using wave energy, and take it to tidal pumps near shore.

The first step is to send a three foot wide spherical bag of fresh water from New Zealand to Chile only using ocean current, along the lines of the current DIMES scientific study of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. This test will help ascertain best material, regulatory status, and other requirements. As test bags scale up, use of SkySails will enable steering and wind propulsion.

See also transporting-fresh-water-through-the-ocean-t7949.html

stahrwe · Mon Mar 08, 2010 8:41 am


	Robert Tulip wrote: The patent drawings at http://rtulip.net/ocean_based_algae_pro ... nal_patent include a tidal pump. Sitting on the continental shelf, such pumps can use the gravitational energy of the moon and sun to shift water from an ocean mile wide bag into the reticulation system on land. Large bags in the ocean would not stop, but would continue to move in the currents, which in the case of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current has 600 times the water volume of the Amazon River. Waterbags, such as those described at http://www.waterbag.com, can transfer water from a mile wide sphere at sea using wave energy, and take it to tidal pumps near shore. The first step is to send a three foot wide spherical bag of fresh water from New Zealand to Chile only using ocean current, along the lines of the current DIMES scientific study of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. This test will help ascertain best material, regulatory status, and other requirements. As test bags scale up, use of SkySails will enable steering and wind propulsion. See also transporting-fresh-water-through-the-ocean-t7949.html

Interesting stuff. I will be curious to see how the scale up works.

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