Figuring that the project could actually be plausible following research and feasibility studies, their passion grows as they realize that they could revolutionize our perception of what is achievable in the fishing world.
The purpose of the meeting in Lima tomorrow is NOT whether to discuss actually doing any of these things, but rather whether to support research on the feasibility of doing so in the worst-case scenarios of climate change.
The Swedish government is funding research into the feasibility of using a wind-turbine driven oxygen pump in the Baltic, following studies carried out last year by the University of Gothenburg, which looked at the effect of pumping oxygen-rich surface water to the bottom of two Swedish fjords.
Johns Hopkins University's Applied Physics Laboratory, a leading space research center, recently conducted feasibility studies into junk-zapping lasers and garbage-collecting rockets.
Much research has been undertaken toward creating Harry Potter-style "invisibility cloaks" since the feasibility of the idea was first put forward in 2006.