Re: [Vo]:Re: Eye of the Gyre
Michel wrote: Back on topic, talking about unedible things, you don't happen to have Sir Branson's ear by any chance? Think he might be interested in this Bermuda based N.A. Gyre cultivation nonsense? Richard Branson's ear? If only... As far as the Sargasso seaweed cultivation goes isn't it just a larger, more elaborate version of the Planktos idea? It would be great if a full and proper environmental risk/benefit assessment was carried out in advance and gave it a clean bill of health. Sometimes schemes like this, designed to be a solution to one problem, can have deleterious effects that outweigh the benefits. In short, they can cause more problems than they solve.
Re: [Vo]:Re: Eye of the Gyre
Michel, are you absolutely sure that you are French? You don't want to eat your horse and your English is better than that of most native speakers... I think the point was that the *water* began to run out and horses drink a lot of it so, to conserve supplies, they get thrown over first...
Re: [Vo]:Re: Eye of the Gyre
At the risk of stirring up another Hundred Years' War, let me opine that the British Taboo on horse meat seems to be fairly recent, or else ignored in Yorkshire, and now has evolved into an item of jealous yearning ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1551693/The-merits-of-horse-meat.html I seriously doubt that any uneaten horse was ever tossed overboard - in the entire history of the Admiralty ... However, with our beloved Kentucky Derby set to begin in a few hours, I will refrain from any culinary review of this gourmet delicacy ... --- Nick Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michel, are you absolutely sure that you are French? You don't want to eat your horse and your English is better than that of most native speakers... I think the point was that the *water* began to run out and horses drink a lot of it so, to conserve supplies, they get thrown over first...
RE: [Vo]:Re: Eye of the Gyre
Hmmm...would that be fast food? Lawry -Original Message- From: Jones Beene [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, May 03, 2008 10:39 AM To: vortex Subject: Re: [Vo]:Re: Eye of the Gyre At the risk of stirring up another Hundred Years' War, let me opine that the British Taboo on horse meat seems to be fairly recent, or else ignored in Yorkshire, and now has evolved into an item of jealous yearning ... http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1551693/The-merits-of-horse-meat.html I seriously doubt that any uneaten horse was ever tossed overboard - in the entire history of the Admiralty ... However, with our beloved Kentucky Derby set to begin in a few hours, I will refrain from any culinary review of this gourmet delicacy ... --- Nick Palmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michel, are you absolutely sure that you are French? You don't want to eat your horse and your English is better than that of most native speakers... I think the point was that the *water* began to run out and horses drink a lot of it so, to conserve supplies, they get thrown over first...
Re: [Vo]:Re: Eye of the Gyre
Michel Speaking of getting the Eye of the Gyre concept into full-motion, hurricane style, have you pushed the idea to that other famous Frenchman named Michel: Jean-Michel Cousteau is of course the famous, environmentalist, educator, film producer and son of ocean explorer Jacques-Yves Cousteau ... In 1999, He launched Ocean Futures Society which ought to be the perfect sponsor for harvesting the bounty of the oceans to help mitigate global warming ... http://www.oceanfutures.org/ BUT which organization, unfortunately, seems to be far more concerned with buttering-up to celebrities and raising capital for lame PR projects - than doing real work- like saving the oceans. I have a feeling that Jacques Cousteau, even though himself a PR man at heart (and self-promoter), would be greatly disappointed in the real work being done today by his namesake Jones
Re: [Vo]:Re: Eye of the Gyre
Howdy Michel, I wouldn't want to be suspended way out there on a guywire when a catagory 5 hurricane comes visiting. Richard Michel wrote, Even better, let's close the loop! Instead of far away (e.g. Azores) seeding, we could use a second sea line (underwater pipeline) to reject seeds, process residues with fertilizing value, and any additional fertilizer, from the processing station (e.g. Bermuda, or a floating platform not unlike a deep sea oil platform) to a nearby seeding point which will ensure a complete spiral orbit of the crop. In the case of the NA gyre this would be some point between the US Atlantic coast and Bermuda, or even on the US coast, or even on the Bermuda coast. The processing station would be advantageously somewhere between, or at any extremity of a straight line between the harvesting point (the Eye) and the seeding point... What do you think, fellow Gyre Farming enthusiasts? Michel
Re: [Vo]:Re: Eye of the Gyre
In reply to Michel Jullian's message of Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:58:17 +0200: Hi, [snip] Good point Richard, neither would I, nor would any robotic platform... Maybe we could envisage sufficient flexibility in the mooring scheme (maybe some kind of semi-dynamic mooring, static most of the time, dynamic=motorized when needed) to move out of the way of the hurricane? [snip] It just needs to be submerged enough to get it out of the way. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk The shrub is a plant.
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--- Michel Jullian wrote: So, how do you like this place for our North Atlantic operations headquarters: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=qhl=engeocode=q=bermuda+islandjsv=107sll=32.324276,-66.796875sspn=43.078993,56.953125ie=UTF8ll=32.301063,-64.786377spn=21.796966,28.476562t=hz=5 ... only one or two things not to like about Bermuda. Here is one of them- also very vortexian: http://daac.gsfc.nasa.gov/oceancolor/images/Sep62003_FabianErodesBermuda.jpg
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In reply to Michel Jullian's message of Tue, 15 Apr 2008 02:02:43 +0200: Hi, [snip] I have a vague recollection of the Sargasso see being a protected marine environment. That may restrict what you can do. Regards, Robin van Spaandonk The shrub is a plant.
