a mixture of gravity, drift, and strong winds stirred up the warm waters of the Gulf Stream. The temperature in this gyre (which transports 10 million cubic meters of water per second) would rise only .3OF if the heated waste water from 1,000 power plants of 1,000 megawatts each were released into it.
Csanady concludes that the daily waste heat of one large power sta- tion (equal, he says, to the heat emptied into the ocean "during a sum- mer day by a medium-size lagoon"), pouring out...