LONG ISLAND, N.Y., Sept. 16, 2020
/PRNewswire/ -- Whether the culprit is climate change or some other
phenomenon, it's clear that hurricanes are on the rise – not only
in the amount of storms we see, but often in their severity too.
Questions continue to arise about ways to combat this new normal,
especially as more and more lives, coastal infrastructures and
billions of dollars get washed away by massive ocean waves with the
coming of each storm. Destino Rivera of New York's Atlantean Technologies seems to
have come up with the world-changing answer… a new innovative
technology he's single-handedly been developing since 2004 called
Wave Killer.
"Our patented, game-changing, environmentally safe 'Wave Killer'
system is not found anywhere else on the planet. It creates
immensely thick walls of air bubbles 10, 20, even 50 feet wide that
can span for miles on end. The system gets anchored to the
ocean floor, rises all the way to the surface and changes the
medium of the water from liquid to air," says Rivera, a master
diver with 30 years of underwater construction experience, "we
protect entire coastal infrastructures by cooling ocean surface
temperatures and stopping ocean waves from coming ashore during
hurricanes, eradicating beach erosion, containing oil spills
and dredging siltation, creating swimming areas safe from sharks,
stopping marine life from clogging nuclear plant intakes, breathing
life back into dying coral reefs and as luck would have it, saving
the lives of whales, dolphins and other marine life by creating
perimeters around seismic blasts, air bombs and sonar pings from
wind and oil drilling projects that cannot be penetrated."
Rivera also believes with the right satellite buoy alert
systems in place, that Wave Killer can potentially stop tsunami
waves from reaching shore with very little advanced notice and that
it's also possible to elevate cool water from the ocean bottom
to the warm surface, thus decreasing the surface temperature in
hurricane 'hot spots' to slow climate change and decrease the
strength of massive storms globally. "We know strong storms can be
a necessary evil in terms of healthy aquatic ecosystems and the
natural development of the earth, but if we can take a Category 5
and reduce it to a Category 1 storm just by making the ocean's
surface temperature cooler in geographic storm tracks, we could
save lives, coastlines and billions of dollars' worth of damage in
the process," suggests Rivera.
How does it work? Ocean energy travels in waves through water
very efficiently because water is incompressible, and it allows the
power to travel through it with very little loss of momentum. The
innovative Wave Killer system is so dense with air bubbles that it
degrades energy waves because the air content of its two-phase flow
compresses, absorbs and diffuses that energy – so it literally
kills ocean surface waves because they simply can't travel on
air.
Wave Killer comes in modular 20-foot sections with air being
pumped into a system of environmentally safe tubes, which then gets
delivered to strategically positioned air dispersal heads with tiny
holes releasing intermingling bubbles. The air gets supplied by
centrifuge fans, compressors, or even the bypass of jet engines
which can run on natural gas – depending on how many miles of
coastline are being protected. It is also a sealed air system, so
it always has air in it even when it is turned off. The system can
be activated in mere seconds and only when needed—no storms, not
active; no oil spills, the same.
There are other scientists around the globe working on similar
concepts, but the Wave Killer system is not only far more effective
because of its ability to be as long and wide as necessary, but
it's also the only patented system in the world. Other systems that
have been tested typically include just one thin hose with air
pumped in to make bubble walls only about 6 inches in width, but
the Wave Killer System includes millions of bubbles mixing together
per second that create impenetrable walls of air with far more
game-changing applications than any other system being tested.
So why hasn't this been put to use right away? Rivera says he's
spoken with over 30 senatorial and congressional offices to alert
them this technology now exists, as well as the Department of the
Interior, the US Navy, NOAA and other agencies who can use this
system to help save the environment from storms, oil spills and
other disasters. "We know the system works," Mr. Rivera said, "and
what we need now is the funding to build an updated prototype and
run final tests on the system before deploying in the most
vulnerable environments."
It's not inexpensive to put these systems in, but considering
how North and South Carolina
invested over one billion dollars to
rebuild their beaches, only to see 100% of their investment get
washed away in 2019 from Hurricane Dorian, a Wave Killer system 200
yards offshore killing those massive ocean waves that eroded their
coastlines would have been a fraction of the cost. The same can be
said for containing oil spills and other costly disasters.
There is more yet to be learned on how this technology can help us
all weather future storms. Their website
is www.wavekiller.net and Mr. Rivera promises to share
test results with the public as soon as their next round of
demonstrations is complete.
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