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May 27, 2005
Unlimited power, water and AC?
In a new bizzare article at Wired, The Mad Genius from the Bottom of the Sea, they interview Jown Craven. Craven was a ocean engineer, lawyer, and a lead scientist in the navel weapons programs. Now he wants to pump cold water from the bottom of the ocean, run through big outdoor radiator-like structures on tropical islands, to provide cheap air conditioning, water from condensation (much cheaper than reverse osmosis or distilation, and power through a vacum evaporation turbine. The article makes him sound like an insane and easily bored genius, but this could be big in spite of him
Posted by OneEyedMan at May 27, 2005 7:13 AM
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