Scientists Want to Steer Hurricanes with Industrial Slag and Directed Energy Systems
October 21st, 2007What could possibly go wrong?
Via: Telegraph:
Scientists have made a breakthrough in man’s desire to control the forces of nature – unveiling plans to weaken hurricanes and steer them off course, to prevent tragedies such as Hurricane Katrina.
The damage done to New Orleans in 2005 has spurred two rival teams of climate experts, in America and Israel, to redouble their efforts to enable people to play God with the weather.
Under one scheme, aircraft would drop soot into the near-freezing cloud at the top of a hurricane, causing it to warm up and so reduce wind speeds. Computer simulations of the forces at work in the most violent storms have shown that even small changes can affect their paths – enabling them to be diverted from major cities.
But the hurricane modifiers are fighting more than the weather. Lawyers warn that diverting a hurricane from one city to save life and property could result in multi-billion dollar lawsuits from towns that bear the brunt instead. Hurricane Katrina caused about $41 billion in damage to New Orleans.
Hurricanes form when air warmed over the ocean rises to meet the cool upper atmosphere. The heat turns to kinetic energy, producing a spiral of wind and rain. The greater the temperature differences between top and bottom, and the narrower the eye of the hurricane, the faster it blows.
Moshe Alamaro, of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), told The Sunday Telegraph of his plans to “paint” the tops of hurricanes black by scattering carbon particles – either soot or black particles from the manufacture of tyres – from aircraft flying above the storms. The particles would absorb heat from the sun, leading to changes in the airflows within the storm. Satellites could also heat the cloud tops by beaming microwaves from space.
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“If they’re done in the right place at the right time they can affect the strength of the hurricane,” Mr Alamaro said.
The theory has so far been tested only in computer simulation by Mr Alamaro’s colleague, Ross Hoffman. Mr Alamaro said: “With small changes to this side or that side of the hurricane we can nudge it and change its track. We’re starting with computer simulations, then will hopefully experiment on a small weather system.”
The Maori claim to have their own weather modification system, sometimes wielded in a retaliatory fashion: http://www.twm.co.nz
What causes the hurricanes over cold water? Attributing warm water as the cause of hurricanes is like looking at a car going down the street and believing it is moving forward because of the gases exiting the tailpipe. There is not enough energy there to do it. Hurricanes are electrical storms much like thunderstorms. The electricity is trying to find a path to the ground. Over water it forms a hurricane until it gets grounded out {there is a hint about how to disapate one} over land when the clouds reach a certain hieght the electricity can find a path down as lightening. Hurricanes {and weather} are being steered. http://www.jmccsci.com
Hey Pookie, I’ve seen that guys site and the after events of the last week I’m wondering if he’s about to begin a little more retalation. Mind you the weather’s been so bad lately I don’t know how we’ll tell the difference 🙂
Yo, Aaron. The dude claims to have generated the Northland floods that Kevin and Becky experienced — whoah! But ain’t there a high percentage of Maori living up that way and presumably suffering in the floods along with the hapless non-indigenous? hmmmm. All this weather stuff is above my head — ha.
Those who’ve read my posts to Cryptogon know I have some strange views. But weather wars? I am a true believer. I was sent to this site shortly after Hurricane Katrina. (much changed, numerously times hacked (picture of AC/DC album cover on the site once) but found it again tonight.
http://www.weatherwars.info/
Used to be a whole section of the site that showed the total weirdness of the track of Hurricane Katrina – yeah, just jog that baby of a storm over a few inches and you destroy a city composed PRIMARILY of U.S. government federal aid recipients. HooHah! And that was before the storm really took its toll. The site had a map down to the zip codes of the majority of federal aid recipients. And guess where the storm “jogged” too?
I spent hours and days totalling weeks reading all of the information that used to be on the weatherwars site.I can’t spend the time looking tonight for better links for your reading pleasure.
Since then, I can’t get it out of the back of my mind anymore that when the weather truly turns weird – the droughts in the U.S. south (starve more of those cotton pickin farmers who vote Democratic by sending them a drought)and the fires in California today (lets get the mortgage providers off the hook by destroying the properties that they all gave ARM and other bum-fucked mortgages to) aren’t part and parcel of the same type of gig – weather manipulation. For that matter, the tsunami in Indonesia was most likely caused by sonar soundings re oil exploration on the tectonic plate ridge. No one ever talks about all the whales that beached the week prior. Sigh.
But really, everythings fine. No one in their right mind thinks these thoughts. Actually, they don’t. I think it is the left side of the brain that allows creative, out of the box thinking.
Kevin, I Hope all is well with your family in California.
Eileen, I may joke about weather modification (one has to retain some sort of sense of humour these days, “or the terrists have won” – heh), but I don’t think your views are the least bit strange. I had come across the weatherwars website a few years ago, when I was researching scalar weaponry (i.e., when I was scaring myself shitless, or, for you intellectual types, getting the “heebie jeebies”). The older I get, the less I really KNOW, and the more gobsmacked I am by the strength and numbers of The Evil out there and the myriad ways They can act. I often feel like an ant that’s about to get crushed by a juggernaut, and that’s why, I suppose, it’s a comfort to read sites like Cryptogon, because for me it’s the only way of connecting with like-minded individuals. In short, I believe we’re freakin’ doomed, but historically speaking, doom is not so uncommon. Just keep the chirpy, kumbaya-singing, “there is no evil, just misunderstanding” twerps outta the way, or Pookie can lose her cool and steer her derision into a hurricane of invective at warp speed.