Will we ever harness the weather?

[RedRooster]

As I'm sure many of you have done before, I've often wondered if someday it'll be possible to somehow capture and retain weather and temperature. Now hold on, hear me out. 500 years ago if anyone suggested the idea of an airplane they'd think the same thing you are.

I don't have any idea how it could be done, but to have large quantities of +40C heat in the wintertime to disperse without a furnace or -40C cold in the summertime to expell into your house without using an air conditioner.

Concentrated containers of "weather", could be bought and sold like any other commodity, shipped over seas. Antarctica would have a commodity worth something, as would poor hot continents like Africa. Homes around the entire Earth would be 20C all the time!

I guess Star Trek never talks about such a brilliant invention, so it'll probably never happen.

 

[UnatcoAgent]

I hope so

 

[K1052]

I guess Star Trek never talks about such a brilliant invention, so it'll probably never happen.

They had weather control in Star Trek.

 

[DnetMHZ]

I'm sure you could buy a can of winter on Ebay right now!

 

[dighn]

if we can completely harness solar energy then we can probably achieve the same

 

[Ogg]

we can control the weather and when finally developed and used overtly as a weapon of war, watch out!!!!:evil:

 

[Jzero]

Too dangerous. I hope we never figure it out.

 

[K1052]

Originally posted by: Ogg
we can control the weather and when finally developed and used overtly as a weapon of war, watch out!!!!:evil:

Actually, I think that is outlawed by international treaty.

 

[Ogg]

Originally posted by: K1052

Originally posted by: Ogg
we can control the weather and when finally developed and used overtly as a weapon of war, watch out!!!!:evil:

Actually, I think that is outlawed by international treaty.

awww shucks

 

[Isla]

Nope.

Think about it. The weather is a woman.... Mother Earth. Just when you think you've got it all figured out, she'll throw you a loop that you never saw coming.

 

[AccruedExpenditure]

You think we could make it warmer in the winter without serious fvcking everything up.
HA

 

[RedRooster]

Originally posted by: Gnote
You think we could make it warmer in the winter without serious fvcking everything up.
HA

There's one thing I hadn't thought of, and that is if these containers were to burst or leak. A giant spill by a cargo ship in the middle of the ocean, or worse yet near land, of concentrated "cold" or "hot" could conceivably damage that areas climate for quite a well.

I guess we'd have to capture and immediately store everything outside the atmosphere.

 

[Atomicus]

You can't control weather because for the most part it is affected by the sun

Originally posted by: dighn
if we can completely harness solar energy then we can probably achieve the same

Not far from the truth; with the most abundant renewable resource known to man, an unlimited energy source such as the sun (but will burn out in a few billion years) can lead to anything since energy is what continues to drive our technology.

 

[Ausm]

Your subtitle is debateable.


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[eigen]

But what about terraforming that is were the money is to be made.