Antarctica-to-Western Australia Liquid Freshwater Shipments Using Stauber Bags in a Paternoster-Like Transfer System: Inaugurating a Southern Ocean Antidrought Action Sea-Lane

Cathcart, Richard B.; Finkl, Charles W.; Badescu, Viorel

doi:10.2112/11a-00014.1

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“…The outflow harvested for shipment overseas via pipeline is insufficient to cause any meridional dipole ocean surface temperature anomaly from developing in the equatorial North Atlantic Ocean [27]. Large-volume freshwater carriers generally referred to as Stauber Bags [28] can be used also and these have the practical and preferential advantage of mobility: for instance, such massive towed plastic water-barges may be used during the 21st Century to supply freshwater to Sao Paulo, Brazil and Cape Town, South Africa [29]! Both commercial fresh-water transport systems are innovative, environmentally sound ways of salvaging much-need freshwater, a valuable resource that would otherwise be lost by dilution in the world-ocean.…”

Section: Trans-atlantic Ocean Brazil-africa Trade Routementioning

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Galvanic Tripartite Amazon River Basin Macro- Imagineering

Cathcart¹

2018

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Referencing basic statements on macro-engineering’s innovation-phase organization penned separately by Panero and Davidson, Team Geographos offers a new global commerce enhancing tripartite transportation macro-project, the postulated Trans-Pacific Brazil-Peru-China Trade Route. The latitudinal TPB-P-CTR may become an economically feasible substitute or supplement to a 21st Century China-supported trans-American railway designed to connect Peru’s Pacific Ocean coast with Brazil’s Atlantic Ocean coast. In effect, a New World-originated concept that could globalize the developed infrastructure of the entire Amazon River Basin. Whilst certainly remarkably speculative, technically, the suggested TPB-P-CTR could create common destinies (yet still multi-national) for tropic zone of Peru and Brazil, operationalized by substantial financial and technical inputs mainly from China’s temperate zone seaport-based communities.Key words: Global commerce, macro-engineering, tripartite transportation macro-project. ===========================================================================Fazendo referência a declarações básicas sobre a organização da fase de inovação da macroengenharia, escritas separadamente por Panero e Davidson, a Team Geographos oferece um novo macroprojeto de transporte tripartido que fortalece o comércio global, a postulada Transpacífico Brasil-Peru-China. A latitudinal TPB-P-CTR pode se tornar um substituto ou suplemento economicamente viável para uma ferrovia transamericana com suporte da China do século 21, projetada para conectar a costa do Oceano Pacífico no Peru com a costa do Oceano Atlântico no Brasil; com efeito, um conceito originado no Novo Mundo que poderia globalizar a infraestrutura de toda a bacia do rio Amazonas. Ainda que em grande medida especulativo, do ponto de vista técnico o CTR-TPB sugerido poderia criar destinos comuns, mas ainda multinacionais, para a região do Peru e do Brasil, operacionalizados por substanciais insumos financeiros e técnicos, principalmente das comunidades baseadas em portos da zona temperada da China.Palavras-chave: Comércio global, macroengenharia, macroprojeto de transporte tripartite.

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Section: Trans-atlantic Ocean Brazil-africa Trade Routementioning

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Galvanic Tripartite Amazon River Basin Macro- Imagineering

Cathcart¹

2018

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Wind-energy based path planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Markov Decision Processes

Al-Sabban

Gonzalez

Smith

2013

2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation

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Polar Ice as an Unconventional Water Resource: Opportunities and Challenges

Karimidastenaei

Kløve

Sadegh

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Global water resources are under pressure due to increasing population and diminishing conventional water resources caused by global warming. Water scarcity is a daunting global problem which has prompted efforts to find unconventional resources as an appealing substitute for conventional water, particularly in arid and semiarid regions. Ice is one such unconventional water resource, which is available mainly in the Arctic and Antarctic. In this study, opportunities and challenges in iceberg utilization as a source of freshwater were investigated on the basis of a systematic literature review (SLR). A search in three databases (Scopus, Web of Science, and ProQuest) yielded 47 separate studies from 1974 to 2019. The SLR indicated that harvesting iceberg water, one of the purest sources of water, offers benefits ranging from supplying freshwater and creating new jobs to avoiding iceberg damage to offshore structures. Economic considerations and risks associated with iceberg towing were identified as the main limitations to iceberg harvesting, while environmental impacts were identified as the main challenge to exploiting this resource. Assessment of trends in ice sheets in Arctic and Antarctic across different spatiotemporal scales indicated that the main sources of icebergs showed a statistically significant (p < 0.01) decreasing trend for all months and seasons during 2005–2019.

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Antarctica-to-Western Australia Liquid Freshwater Shipments Using Stauber Bags in a Paternoster-Like Transfer System: Inaugurating a Southern Ocean Antidrought Action Sea-Lane

Cited by 3 publications

References 78 publications

Galvanic Tripartite Amazon River Basin Macro- Imagineering

Galvanic Tripartite Amazon River Basin Macro- Imagineering

Wind-energy based path planning for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Markov Decision Processes

Polar Ice as an Unconventional Water Resource: Opportunities and Challenges

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