You can see it is a joke by inspection if the claim is 100 sq yards of ocean raised from 47 degrees to 82 degrees. That is a change of 19.4 degrees C for an area of 83 sq meters. Assuming an average depth of 1m or 83 cubic meters or 83,000,000 cc and that is 4.18 * 19.2 * 83000000 joules. Or 6.7 gigajoules over 7200 seconds (2 hrs) is just about a megawatt of power.<p>It would work if that device on the beach was a compact nuclear explosive :-)
I'm actually a little bit confused by this - is this serious? It all seemed normal (well, normal being relative) until the last bit about ex-drug smugglers and cash-lined suits.<p>Maybe I'm just not rich enough to fall into this kind of R&D mindset where these things even warrant consideration by sane humans.
That made me think of Nauthólsvík in Reykjavík:
<a href="http://visitreykjavik.is/nautholsvik-geothermal-beach" rel="nofollow">http://visitreykjavik.is/nautholsvik-geothermal-beach</a>
Not sure if this is real but I don't think its good for the ocean.<p>I don't think something the size of an ATM can heat 100 square yards of ocean.