Text 7381, 57 rader
Skriven 2005-10-01 15:48:34 av Rich Gauszka (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 7380 av Geo (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: Dial down the Sun?
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From: "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com>


"Geo" <georger@nls.net> wrote in message news:433ee3eb$1@w3.nls.net...
> "Rich Gauszka" <gauszka@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:433ec51b@w3.nls.net...
>
>> I've always wondered about the risks involved in beaming that energy
>> down.
> "
>> Oops we didn't really mean to incinerate your city" Bush's newly
>> appointed
>> energy czar Mike Brown said today <g>
>
> Do don't beam it down that way, use a laser that's 1000 ft wide when it
> hits
> the surface and sell lighting services to night time sporting events and
> search operations.
>
> Use it to evaporate storms like oh say a hurricane that's approaching New
> Orleans while it's still out in the ocean.
>
> Cheap power might get mankind moving into space..
>
> Geo.
>
>

The hot air beamed by the laser would probably intensify a hurricane as would
the atom bomb idea someone had a while back.

The Russian idea of using an oil spill to dilute the effects seems interesting.
Dolphins wouldn't appreciate it though

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20050927/sc_afp/usweatherstormideas

In the 1970s, the Soviets intentionally leaked oil into the Pacific Ocean in an
attempt to stifle the droplets of water spray that help feed the violent winds
of a hurricane.

Presumably the attempt failed but the results of the experiment have yet to be
revealed, say researchers at the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological
Laboratory (AOML).

For some who dream of halting hurricanes, seeding clouds is merely child's
play. Long papers have been written advocating using giant tubes to direct cold
air or even detonating an atomic bomb in the middle of a storm. Scientists have
pointed out that an atomic explosion would merely make the hot center of a
storm even hotter, not a particularly effective approach. There is also the
problem of unleashing massive radiation near coastal cities.

The atomic bomb idea, like some other ambitious proposals, underestimates the
sheer power of a serious hurricane, which generates thousands of times more
energy than a nuclear bomb or power plant, Willoughby said.

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