I understand that hurricanes get their strength from warm ocean water but do they take a measurable amount of heat from the water? ('Not going anywhere with this question, just wondering.)

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        56 months ago

        They’re already installed. We call them ocean currents, and climate change is about to wreck them.

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          26 months ago

          Sure sure, but what if we didn’t care about how nature did it and did it ourselves. I can’t see a way this could go wrong.

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      26 months ago

      Look up Atmospheric Vortex Engines. Think giant fire tornados driving turbines. The more realistic designs use waste heat but Popular Science or Mechanics had a story decades ago where someone proposed creating giant fire tornados in the desert.