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Is it possible to form a "hurricanebuster" company with this idea?

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richardycc

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are there any research done on how to stop a hurriance? I am wondering if dumping a bomb into the eye of the hurricane can disrupt the formation of the twister, since the bomb can temporarily such the air out of the hurricane's surrounding, so no air = no air movement = no hurricane. Good idea? stupid? any meterorologist on here? 😉
 
And what's to stop the hurricane from pushing the bomb right back up towards the plane before it explodes, killing all people on the plane?
 
Yeah lets detonate a nuke in the center. If it doesn't destroy the hurricane...I'm sure the 86+mph windows won't do anythin to the fallout.
 
I hope you don't think a few pounds of dynamite would do anything 🙂



for the matter...even a semi truck full of c4.

no no..i think we need some plutonium for this one.....
 
You'd need an atomic bomb to do anything to a hurricane. And even then, it'd probably need to be a big one. Then you'd wind up killing more people than the hurricane would have.
These storms are incredibly powerful things. From here:
At its peak, a severe storm may have a total power near to 10^15 Watts: about 3,000 times the total electrical power generated in the world. This is equivalent to exploding 500,000 atomic bombs per day (the little ones that were used at the end of WWII).
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I guess that a hurricane might hiccup at a hydrogen bomb, laugh, and continue on its merry way.
 
Even if it would work, what would be the affect on weather patterns around the world? Would it be worth the lawsuits from India because half the country died from starvation because your bomb stopped the rain?
 
Originally posted by: DurocShark
Even if it would work, what would be the affect on weather patterns around the world? Would it be worth the lawsuits from India because half the country died from starvation because your bomb stopped the rain?
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Why would killing a hurricane a few hundred miles off our coast have any impact on rain in India?

Considering how many above ground nuclear detonations have already taken place, a few more couldn't hurt too much.

Hell, even the Bikini Atoll is inhabitable, isn't it? We'd be talking about killing them LONG before they were a threat to us, so I would think the fallout effects would be minimal.

Viper GTS
 
As has been cited, the force of a hurricane is several times over stronger than our most powerful nukes.

The power is spread over a much wider area however.
 
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.
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i heard somewhere that storms such as hurricanes/tornadoes helps maintain the balance of nature. mess one up and ur gonna throw the entire climate into chaos. i dunno where i heard this...but i think discovery channel once
 
First off, what would be your expected sales from this scheme. Who would you contract with, when most hurricanes would be in international waters.
 
Originally posted by: Savij
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From that link:
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.
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Sweet, lets fly over and hang some huge-ass windmills in there! Fossil fuels, who needs 'em?
 
Rather than getting paid to stop hurricanes, you could get paid to harvest energey from them 🙂 Or paid to start them by contruction unions 🙁
 
My money is on the hurricane. By the way, a hurricane isn't exactly small. Isabell, for instance, was larger than several states. You just can't stop something that big without an equal amount of force. Your bomb would create just as much devastation (if not more) than the hurricane itself.

Dave
 
LMFAO!!!!

This thread is hilarious. 😛

You people suggesting dropping nukes on them are insane! :Q

The American Cancer Society says that the number of cancers a year caused from the nuclear fallout of all the nuclear bombs ever detonated on the planet is undeterminable. You have to be ignorant or high to think that the fallout just.. goes away. 😛

I don't even think fallout is the main issue. Disrupting such a huge weather pehnomenon like that.. Again, you'd have to be pretty naive to think that it wouldn't do anything to the climatology of the planet. We know very little in this area..

For the fun of discussion, I bet dropping a powerful nuke in the center of the hurricane would probably disrupt it considerably, but that doesen't mean it wouldn't re-form.

These storms are like 400 miles wide.. Even our best nukes wouldn't even take the whole hurricane out.

Hmm.. I have a better idea.

These storms create that much power on their own?

Have we tried to re-create a hurricane on a much larger scale? Is that possible? Or is the space the storm takes up required for it to form, or something?

Even still, that much power :Q it would be worth it. We need to research this area more. Set aside a 500 square mile area somewhere in the country.. and start trying to make a stationary hurricane. 😀
 
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