The Golden Gate Textile Barrier: Preserving California Bay of San Francisco from a Rising North Pacific Ocean

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Climate change in California may require construction of a barrier separating the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco Bay and the Sacramento River-San Joaquin River Delta simply because Southern California is remarkably dependent on freshwater exported from the Delta. We offer a new kind of salt barrier, a macroproject built of impermeable textile materials stretched across the Golden Gate beneath the famous bridge. We anticipate it might eventually substitute for a recently proposed San Francisco In-Stream Tidal Power Plant harnessing a 1.7 m tide at the Bay entrance if future climate conditions Statewide is conducive. First-glance physics underpin our macroproject.
13 pages, 9 figures

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General Physics, Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics, Physics and Society

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/123352

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https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0702030
 http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0702030

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