Posted on 08/25/2019 8:02:42 PM PDT by perfect stranger
During each hurricane season, there always appear suggestions that one should simply use nuclear weapons to try and destroy the storms. Apart from the fact that this might not even alter the storm, this approach neglects the problem that the released radioactive fallout would fairly quickly move with the tradewinds to affect land areas and cause devastating environmental problems. Needless to say, this is not a good idea.
Now for a more rigorous scientific explanation of why this would not be an effective hurricane modification technique. The main difficulty with using explosives to modify hurricanes is the amount of energy required. A fully developed hurricane can release heat energy at a rate of 5 to 20x1013 watts and converts less than 10% of the heat into the mechanical energy of the wind. The heat release is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes. According to the 1993 World Almanac, the entire human race used energy at a rate of 1013 watts in 1990, a rate less than 20% of the power of a hurricane.
If we think about mechanical energy, the energy at humanity's disposal is closer to the storm's, but the task of focusing even half of the energy on a spot in the middle of a remote ocean would still be formidable. Brute force interference with hurricanes doesn't seem promising.
(Excerpt) Read more at aoml.noaa.gov ...
We should use windmills.
I seriously just saw someone on Twitter say Trump was going to do this.
Crazy leftist I imagine.
The energy of nuclear explosion is puny comparing to hurricane.
THIS is where I saw that claim of Trump suggesting nuking hurricanes.
I call fake news!
Throw that rod with the deep diver out Harold. I’ve got the speed down to 3 or 4 mph. We’ll troll awhile maybe drill into a walleye or a pike. Anything it another dang guppie.
Yeah, because spreading nuclear fallout all over North America is q great idea.
It = but
Just what we need, a Radioactive Sharknado.
A Dingo. ...
I said a Dingo ate your baby. (:V)
? What are you talking about?
When the next major hurricane destroys Miami, New York, Houston or Cheyenne, they wish we used nuclear bombs to stop storms.
A little slow huh? Trump ain’t gonna nuk the weather. He’s screwing with the media same as I’m screwing with you can’t keep up take notes. I’d say it’s fake news anyway.
It always works in the movies,
My plan is to take 100 737 jets and fly them in the hurricane opposite of the spin direction.
How you gonna fly all them planes? Just curious.
Actually, a neutron bomb would have negligible radiation.
On Drudge, there’s a link to an article claiming Trump proposed “nuking” hurricanes to disrupt their formation.
I don’t believe it—or he was joking or taken out of context. (People use the word “nuke” to mean something as insignificant as “heating up something in a microwave oven; among other things.) No way he proposed this seriously.
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