Patent Application
20200317303
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The disclosure and prior art relates to mitigation devices and more particularly pertains to a new mitigation device for reducing the surface temperature of the ocean to mitigate developing oceanic weather systems.
An embodiment of the disclosure meets the needs presented above by generally comprising a buoy that is floated on the ocean. An air pump is coupled to the buoy and a plurality of tethers is each coupled between the buoy and the ocean floor for keeping the buoy in a selected spot. A network of bubble pipes is each laid along the ocean floor. A supply pipe is fluidly coupled between the air pump and the network of bubble pipes. In this way the air pump can pump air into the network of bubble pipes. Each of the bubble pipes releases air bubbles upwardly toward the surface of the ocean urge cool water on the ocean floor upwardly toward the surface of the ocean. In this way the surface of the ocean can be cooled thereby reducing thermal energy available for developing weather systems.
There has thus been outlined, rather broadly, the more important features of the disclosure in order that the detailed description thereof that follows may be better understood, and in order that the present contribution to the art may be better appreciated.
There are additional features of the disclosure that will be described hereinafter and which will form the subject matter of the claims appended hereto.
The objects of the disclosure, along with the various features of novelty which characterize the disclosure, are pointed out with particularity in the claims annexed to and forming a part of this disclosure.
The disclosure will be better understood and objects other than those set forth above will become apparent when consideration is given to the following detailed description thereof. Such description makes reference to the annexed drawings wherein:
With reference now to the drawings, and in particular to
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A network of bubble pipes 28 is provided and each of the network of bubble pipes 28 is laid along the ocean floor 34. Each of the bubble pipes 28 has an outer wall 30 and the outer wall 30 of each of the bubble pipes 28 has a plurality of air apertures 32 extending into an interior of a respective one of the bubble pipes 28. The air apertures 32 are spaced apart from each other and are distributed along an entire length of the bubble pipes 28. Moreover, each of the bubble pipes 28 is oriented on the ocean floor 34 having the air apertures 32 being directed toward the surface of the ocean 36. The network of bubble pipes 28 may be arranged to radiate outwardly from a common central point or in any other geometric arrangement.
A supply pipe 38 is fluidly coupled between the air pump 20 and the network of bubble pipes 28 for directing air into the network of bubble pipes 28. The supply pipe 38 is fluid coupled to the exhaust 24 of the air pump 20 and each of the air apertures 32 in each of the network of bubble pipes 28 releasing air bubbles 40 upwardly toward the surface of the ocean 36 when the air pump 20 is turned on. Moreover, the air bubbles 40 released by the bubble pipes 28 urges cool water on the ocean floor 34 upwardly toward the surface of the ocean 36. In this way the surface of the ocean 36 can be cooled thereby reducing thermal energy available for developing weather systems.
A power supply 42 is coupled to the buoy 12 and the power supply 42 is electrically coupled to the air pump 20. The power supply 42 comprises a plurality of solar panels 44 that is each directed upwardly from the top side 18 of the buoy 12. In this way each of the solar panels 44 can be exposed to sunlight. Additionally, the power supply 42 may include at least one battery for storing power generated by the solar panels 44.
In use, the buoy 12, the network of bubble pipes 28 and the supply pipe 38 are positioned on the ocean 14 proximate a location that is commonly threatened by oceanic weather systems. The air pump 20 is turned on when a potentially threatening oceanic weather system is developing. Thus, the air pump 20 pumps air downwardly through the supply pipe 38 to subsequently be released through the air apertures 32 in the network of bubble pipes 28. Thus, the air bubbles 40 released from the bubble pipes 28 urges cool water at the ocean floor 34 upwardly toward the surface of the ocean 36 to cool the surface of the ocean 36. In this way the thermal energy at the surface of the ocean 36 that is available for the oceanic weather system is reduced, thereby causing the oceanic weather system to weaken prior to making landfall. The air pump 20 is turned off when no oceanic weather system is developing.
With respect to the above description then, it is to be realized that the optimum dimensional relationships for the parts of an embodiment enabled by the disclosure, to include variations in size, materials, shape, form, function and manner of operation, assembly and use, are deemed readily apparent and obvious to one skilled in the art, and all equivalent relationships to those illustrated in the drawings and described in the specification are intended to be encompassed by an embodiment of the disclosure.
Therefore, the foregoing is considered as illustrative only of the principles of the disclosure. Further, since numerous modifications and changes will readily occur to those skilled in the art, it is not desired to limit the disclosure to the exact construction and operation shown and described, and accordingly, all suitable modifications and equivalents may be resorted to, falling within the scope of the disclosure. In this patent document, the word “comprising” is used in its non-limiting sense to mean that items following the word are included, but items not specifically mentioned are not excluded. A reference to an element by the indefinite article “a” does not exclude the possibility that more than one of the element is present, unless the context clearly requires that there be only one of the elements.
