“Conventional pipes are very thick and very heavy,” Ehsani explains. “If you have these massive pipes that you try to bring onsite and try to put them together in the middle of the ocean, it’s undoable. Even if you find a way to do it, it would be cost prohibitive.”
He anticipates that critics of his proposal will point to the acidification and high temperatures of shallow water as potential drawbacks to implementation.
“My belief is that acidification of the shallow water is because you have a smaller volume of water, so the presence of CO2 in the air is going to have an adverse effect over [those areas],” Ehsani says. “If you go further out in the ocean where the water is deeper, we might not have those issues.”
Ehsani says, though, that he believes InfinitPipe is a “doable, economic solution” that merits further investigation. For more information, visit QuakeWrap.com.
