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 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michel Jullian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 11:47 AM Subject: [Vo]:Re: Eye of the Gyre Indeed Vorts we can do better than this: zero ship time! We already found how to seed/fertilize directly from land (e.g. from the Azores, cf quoted post below). But _even harvesting_ could be done without any ship: we could install a fixed harvesting robot, or cluster of harvesting robots, at the Eye (where the crop converges automagically by vortical effect, remember?), connected to an underwater Sea Line (not necessarily resting on the deep ocean bottom: with an ad hoc anchoring scheme it could be arranged to float in midwater say at 100m depth to save on total length) which would convey the harvest, whether raw or pre-processed of fully processed to biofuel, to the nearest land (e.g. Bermuda). Michel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michel Jullian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <vortex-l@eskimo.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 16, 2008 12:46 AM Subject: [Vo]:Re: Eye of the Gyre I wrote: > We seed the appropriate algae species directly off an island coast somewhere > upstream > e.g. in Azores, the field widens by diffusion and grows while it gyres > clockwise in > subtropical temperatures and insolation, and it concentrates again by > vortical effect in > the eye of the gyre SE of Bermuda a few hundred days later for harvesting... > plausible? ...
