Do hurricanes cool the ocean? - eviltoast

I understand that hurricanes get their strength from warm ocean water but do they take a measurable amount of heat from the water? ('Not going anywhere with this question, just wondering.)

    • Exulion@lemmy.world
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      27 days ago

      If we just install giant heat pipes from the equator to the polls. :thinking:

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          26 days ago

          Sure sure, but what if we didn’t care about how nature did it and did it ourselves. I can’t see a way this could go wrong.

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      27 days ago

      Look up Atmospheric Vortex Engines. Think giant fire tornados driving turbines. The more realistic designs use waste heat but Popular Science or Mechanics had a story decades ago where someone proposed creating giant fire tornados in the desert.