Quote from Vienna:
With all due respect, I don't think this would work. First of all, there are strong currents down there. I dit quite a bit of scuba diving, sometimes you go 100 feet down and it is a fast moving river down there. Try 5000 feet. Your fabric tube would have to be weighted at the bottom and stretched up... how are you going to do that? Basically, you would create not a stable tube but a flat sail, 7850000 sft big (500 foot radius times 2 times Pi times 5000 feet height, divided into 2)... can you imagine the drag currents would create on that area? You fly a glider, you should know....would be impossible to keep this open inside to work as a funnel IMO.
Anyways, this has nothing to do with trading
Thanks for your commments.
Weighting the bottom of the tube from the onset is a natural. And doing it with a cool structural system that handles a lot of factors would be included. A system of vertical strong connections to the weighting would go far.
Drag on a cylinder that is under pressure rends to create two not one partial vacuums opposite one another. (this is how you creatd the flat surface, perhaps. BUT we always have expanding gasses and all the prssure the oil is introducing. this is kept track of so that when the overall wellhead pressure drops to the contemporary technology levels, then the well head is capped.
Think of guy wires on a tall antenna as well. Oftem all the radial guys have the same remote lower end point. Vuring each segment of the tube is bolted on with liners on both sides, guys would also be attached.
The flat sail possibility is negated in several ways. return to the basic problem of the spill: PRESSURE. tHE GASES CONTINUALLY EXPAND AND FINALLY ARE CAPTURED AND LIQUIFIED INTO LNG BY PUTTING A MEMBRANE OVER THE LIFEPRESERVER. People inside the membrane are in small floating uinits which keep the pump inlets organized to get rid of serwater mixing with the oil, tyey wear space suits during rhier shifts.
As much as I would like t, making the cylinder into a "spinner" by dealing with the bottom and top, I thought I would pass on this energy generator initially. Dropping outer cylinders around the original could be done to focus on currents and counter currents and extract energy.
It would also be possible to use under water craft to hook onto guys to counter currents. Or just install fins to handle forces the currents create.
A 5:1 ratio, structurally, is not a tough structure to handle.
Cheap solutions go quite a ways if people who are in control of the problem solving are allowed to get the job done.