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It is returned to the shallow water at 65 degrees f and mixed with an equal volume of 85 degrees f water near the bottom = 75 degrees f, which is cooler than average for the creatures that dwell near the bottom. Neil
You may wish to review my educated guess. I said nothing about mixing the discharged water with warmer water around the discharge point. I was advocating a location where the surrounding water is at the same temperature as the discharge. We know the surface water around Hawaii is warm and that the bottom water at great depths is cold. It should be simple in principle to find a level at which the temperature matches that of the discharge.
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After doing some rough number crunching, I have concluded that the heating of the ocean would be a drop in the bucket, if that much.
Yeah, I agree. As I said earlier, I thought of a constant use in worldwide scale. But then it occurs to me that the system is only applicable in special cases, with favorable conditions, like Hawaii.

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