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Originally Posted by ericthered
With a free hand to place the city at whatever latitude was desired, the designers of Youtopia aimed for "Tropical Paradise". Which is to say the city is the right temperature if you want to lounge about in swimwear on an artificial beach or private pool, but oppressively hot and muggy if you actually want to do anything or are required to wear real clothing. People talk about a hot season and a rainy season, but both seasons are both hot and rainy.
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Actually, tropical waters are necessary for OTEC-style power plants to work very well, with a higher temperature differential between the surface waters and deep water, but we get the same result.
Also, I was curious about whether gyres have a particularly 'boring' climate, as I couldn't find anything suggesting that in reading about them on Wikipedia. And it seems that tropical gyres are not as strong as ones in higher latitudes, due to Coriolis, so the garbage patch effect may not be so severe, but we can handwave that with not being on Earth.