Sunday, November 11, 2012

Taming Hurricanes

Hurricanes are another force that have to be dealt with every year. My original idea that I started with a couple years ago centers around placing cooling grids in the oceans. With the global warming the rising ocean temperatures are the leading factor to feeding more frequent and more powerful hurricanes each year. I figured that a system of large buoys that housed solar powered cooling units which would have coils going into the water in four directions. A network of these buoys and coils would be placed as numerous grids in the hot spots where the storms normally generate from. It would have to be a large network which would have to be large to affect the vast amount of water. It will take a lot to change the temperature of that much water but if the surface temperature could be lowered a few degrees it would sap the power source of the storms.

Or it might be easier to attack the hurricane from above. I just started of thinking about this approach this week. One possibility would be to fit our satellites with sonic cannons and the sound waves would force the developing storm downward until it dissipates into the ocean water. Ideally the diameter of the sound pulse could be adjusted to account of various sized storms. We'll concentrate on the peaceful applications here. A possible approach that could be used now would be to detonate explosives above the storm. The force of the blast could have the same effects to force the storm downward. 

Those are a couple ideas.

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