Erudite scientist Bowie Keefer\u0027s vision includes diverting warm currents from Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets to slow rising sea levels
“It has the advantage of no traffic lights, no parking meters, and the stop signs are purely advisory,” he said from his home on the island.
Svante is a spinoff of QuestAir Technologies, which Keefer founded in 1998 — Jonathan Wilkinson, the MP for North Vancouver and minister of natural resources, was CEO for a time — and which designed technology for clean energies such as hydrogen purification, biogas upgrading and natural gas dehydration.Article content
Keefer and his wife Anna’s Galiano home is a beautiful cedar-beamed work of art their son Sam built aboveThe Keefers’ third son, Mike, is lead visionary atIf the “COVID disaster” had any benefit, Keefer said, it was proving remote work in almost any field that didn’t require hands-on manipulation was possible from almost anywhere, even a Gulf island with traffic suggestions rather than laws.
Paddling his kayak through a bed of kelp off Galiano back in 2009, he came up with the idea of a water curtain anchored to the sea floor that would divert deep warm water while allowing shallower cold water, sea animals and even glaciers to slide over it.Canadian freelance journalist Gwyn Dyer, “The engineers laughed at us … said ‘Don’t be so stupid. You don’t want to have bulldozers or something on the sea floor.
Even eliminating CO2 emissions, then, will mean a slower rise in sea levels but a continuing rise nonetheless.Advertisement 7“The idea is to basically place a gigantic tarpaulin attached to the sea bed stopping that warm water flow,” he said.
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