Will Al Gore Melt?

[Xavier_Onassis]

It seems to me that Global Warming would be a boon to our friends in the Great White North. Lower heating bills, and the breadbasket of North America moves several hundred miles north to Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Tar sands could be mined more of the year, and less expenditure on icebreakers.

I doubt that it would give Labrador nice beaches, but perhaps they could enjoy a nice wine industry on Vancover Island and the Queen Charlottes.

[Amianthus]

That was not the statement. I said that there is a recent technology that allows DIFFERENCES in heat contained in water to be used to generate electricity. This would not work if the entire planet were warmer.

It's not recent. And it requires a larger difference than the 1-2 degrees of difference that is a result of thermal pollution by nuclear power plants.

The technology suggests that the difference between the temperature of water in the deep ocean and the surface be used to generate electricity. Global warming was not mentioned, but logically raising the temperature of the planet would not result in a useful application of the this technology.

Sure it would. A larger difference between the deep parts of the ocean and the surface (caused by global warming) would  result in a larger yield of usable power. Remember - the yield is based on the temperature differential, not the actual temperatures.

[Amianthus]

You got it, plane.  SELLING island property.  Not buying, selling.

Real estate agents rarely buy the property themselves.

[Plane]

You got it, plane.  SELLING island property.  Not buying, selling.

Real estate agents rarely buy the property themselves.

It seems that some quite welthy peopl are still buying and developing beachfrount and island propertys.

This may or may not demonstrate the iffrence between wealthy and wise.