Dolphin Address 04
January 14th 2007
In the last edition we have undertaken the not small endeavour to guard Holland from the caving in and progressing ice from the Polar caps. I take it that, although usually the melt-down is attributed to the North Pole, also the ice that, contrary to the North Pole, at the South Pole largely covers land, will not be excluded from the global warming.
I believe to be entitled by my bi-polar expertise to fully qualify as experienced professional.
In the last Dolphin Address I have proposed to counter the cause of rising waters by caving in melt ice by calming it by ever larger floating islands before the coast, that can be inhabited by people with sea legs or mixing industries, whereby the muffling of the waves might be exploited by winning energy.
Here I would like to propose a different source of energy to brave the rising water. It is generally known what only exceptionally is visible, namely that an elevator has a counterweight. Thereby heavy weights can be vertically transported with relatively little energy.
I would propose to utilise this principle to the very bottom.
If one images a heavy curtain that from the bottom vertically can be opened and closed, than constructions are feasible by which the ‘curtain’ for instance at springtide by counterweight and the drainage of the hollow curtain at least until the surface can be raised and as an artificial riff take the destructive force out of the raging waves.
Here too the thought arises to win water out of the energy of the water, for instance by, under more tranquil weather conditions close the curtain at high tide and at low tide let it flow back through generators. This project also will not score high in ecolophyle eyes, but in the next ‘Dolphin Address’ I hope to finally get my feet up comfortably.
Jan Ploeg, Eindhoven, January 14th 2007
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