The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-01-02
Details of the Scheme.

Details OF the Scheme.
In book, "Power and Control of
the Gulf Stream" Mr.. Riker discusses
the problem of preserving to the uni
verse the benevolent warmth of the
gulf stream for the destruction Of the
sterilizing cold of the arctic. He goes
into details to prove that the Great
Bank jetty will do what he claims for
it by preventing the destructiveameet-
ing of the great frigid and warm ocean
streams. He shows that the, material
for the jetty is ready at hand, that the
Labrador current will itself build up
with it's sand secured from its arctic
course the barrier to it's confictewitb
the gulf stream, and he has exact fig
ures and other data for all the a1naz-
ing results he declares must Inevitably
follow the construction of that ocean
dam. s-...-. Z lt08E9T
Ocean currents. he recites,, control
the distribution of tropical. solar heat,
the waters heated about the equator
bearing away toward the ipoles the
heat there absorbed and modifying
warm flood of the gulf stream, forty
miles in width and 1000 feet deep,
with temperature above 73' degrees
F., is like hot water pipe warming
the Atlantic coast and, adjoining re-
gions as it flows northward. ~oc;
The Labrador current. $50 miles wide
and 200 feet deep, sweeps down from
the arctic with a temperature below 80
degrees. or freezing. Is It meets and
robs the gulf stream of its. heat in the
meeting on the Grand bank. The shoal
on the Great bank where the cold and
warm world arteries meet is "a princi-
pal cause Of their naturalization of
each others effects. E1s.,szs
Jetty Would Divert Meeting.
Mr.. Riker declares that the jetty
would divert this meeting at great
depths to the eastward of sthe. Grand
bank and by the time the Labrador
current was running there it would be
taking course with its heavy saline
cold mile below the surface permit
ting the warmer, lighter and less sal
line gulf stream to sweep above it,5car-
rying a message of warmth and sun
light and fertility to the >snowbound.
ice clad acres of the polar circles
Even after it's destructive conflict on
the Grand bank with the Labrador cur
rent the gulf stream now survives. and
rolls onward. giving to the British Isles
and northern Europe the warmth with
out which Scandinavia would be unin-
habitable and England as sterile as
Labrador se@c4 4
No more icebergs in the steamship,
lanes, no more Of such fogs as. now pre-
vail about the meeting of the cold and
warm currents. storms reduced to a
minimum. and the whole of eastern
North America a garden Of paradise
with no great cold or heat ARE some of
the results Mr.. Riker foresees5- from
building the jetty Cape Hatteras. he
believes. would disappear through the,
increased speed of the gulf Stream.
which he estimates would flow closer
to the Jersey coast and incidentally re-
deposit along the coast about 6.O0O.OO0t
acres of land.
The melting Of the arctic ice cap. he
estimates. would shift the lequalizing
balance of the globe. and the then pre-
ponderating weight of the antarctic ice
cap would make what is now the north
pole point shift toward northern Eu-
rope. with the result Of producing a.
nightless summer in the area of Scot
land without dayless winter:!'i