New Idea! Let's pump cold water to stop hurricanes.
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Ok...my thoughts...
1) We will never find a plausible solution to weaken hurricanes with...why would Mother Nature allow it to be that simple?
2) Hurricanes transport heat to the more northern latitudes...so wouldnt that cause bad affects by shutting these heat carriers down???
3) Just drop the subject...
1) We will never find a plausible solution to weaken hurricanes with...why would Mother Nature allow it to be that simple?
2) Hurricanes transport heat to the more northern latitudes...so wouldnt that cause bad affects by shutting these heat carriers down???
3) Just drop the subject...
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Matt-hurricanewatcher
How about nuclear waste? See I'v heard that salt water is what fuels hurricanes(Fresh water can't) I don't know why fresh water can't but it has something to do with the salt. Lets say we dump 50 thousand gallons of nuclear waste into the gulf of Mexico. Which will burn all the salt out of it...Still I don't know why fresh water can't power a hurricane. But the nuclear waste will cut off the fuel from reaching the hurricane.
How do you like my idea. Or maybe more then 50 thousand gallons as much as needed.
How do you like my idea. Or maybe more then 50 thousand gallons as much as needed.
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MiamiensisWx
Matt-hurricanewatcher wrote:How about nuclear waste? See I'v heard that salt water is what fuels hurricanes(Fresh water can't) I don't know why fresh water can't but it has something to do with the salt. Lets say we dump 50 thousand gallons of nuclear waste into the gulf of Mexico. Which will burn all the salt out of it...Still I don't know why fresh water can't power a hurricane. But the nuclear waste will cut off the fuel from reaching the hurricane.
How do you like my idea. Or maybe more then 50 thousand gallons as much as needed.
I can see you're really desperate. Are you, Matt?
Nuclear waste into the Gulf of Mexico? That would SERIOUSLY disrupt the marine ecosystem and would have COUNTLESS other problems with it.
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MiamiensisWx
Matt-hurricanewatcher wrote:We sure do have alot of nuclear waste to use. In it would stop the water from trasporting into the hurricane. Like a layer like thing across the gulf of Mexico.
I think it will work lets try it
I think I'll nominate this for "silliest post of the year so far". Here is your reward - a good trout-slapping.
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as far as I* know...freshwater can fuel hurricanes...it has nothing to do with salt water or fresh...it is actually that there isnt a freshwater bodied of water big enough for a hurricane...what you would need to lower is the temp of the body of water...not how much salt is in it...if the oceans were fresh water...it would still power massive hurricanes provided the heat content remained the same...Matt-hurricanewatcher wrote:How about nuclear waste? See I'v heard that salt water is what fuels hurricanes(Fresh water can't) I don't know why fresh water can't but it has something to do with the salt. Lets say we dump 50 thousand gallons of nuclear waste into the gulf of Mexico. Which will burn all the salt out of it...Still I don't know why fresh water can't power a hurricane. But the nuclear waste will cut off the fuel from reaching the hurricane.
How do you like my idea. Or maybe more then 50 thousand gallons as much as needed.
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I propose a levee system between Florida and the Yucatan that would totally isolate the Gulf of Mexico. Then, when a hurricane approaches, a series of pumps would completely drain the Gulf into the Atlantic ocean.
With the shallow water depth in that area of the Gulf, the levee system could be constructed economically.
The gulf is approximately 1 million square miles, so at an average depth of 2,500ft, there would be 2.5 x 10^47 gallons of water to be pumped. Assuming complete drainage to the lowest depths through supplemental floating pumps tethered to concrete pylons, it would take 22,766,000 pumps (+/- 1%) an average of 42,777 years to completely drain the Gulf of Mexico. Of course, all this assumes each pump will pump 400 gallons/minute and require no maintenance for 42777 years.
Granted, this is a long term solution, but by the year 44783, windstorm insurance would be available to hundreds of thousands of gulf-coast residents. Not to mention the fact that an additional 1 million square miles of prime land will be added to the gulf coast region. Sales of this additional real estate would generate the revenue needed to sustain the project.
In fact, at current Florida real-estate market prices per acre, the project will actually net a profit of $112.50 for each acre produced, after taxes. After adjustment for inflation, this figure is even more impressive.
Collateral gains would be realized at every step of the project. Hundreds of sunken ships once forever lost to the sea will be exposed by the draining, yielding valuable scientific and archaelogical data as well as quantities of gold and silver.
The fishing industries would benefit greatly. As the water drains, the sea life in the gulf too large to pass through the pumps would be concentrated in a much smaller area, reducing costs.
Deepwater oil and gas exploration could be accomplished with traditional drilling techniques as thousands of square miles of new oil fields become economically exploitable.
Surely this idea is worthy of a government study somewhere, eh?
With the shallow water depth in that area of the Gulf, the levee system could be constructed economically.
The gulf is approximately 1 million square miles, so at an average depth of 2,500ft, there would be 2.5 x 10^47 gallons of water to be pumped. Assuming complete drainage to the lowest depths through supplemental floating pumps tethered to concrete pylons, it would take 22,766,000 pumps (+/- 1%) an average of 42,777 years to completely drain the Gulf of Mexico. Of course, all this assumes each pump will pump 400 gallons/minute and require no maintenance for 42777 years.
Granted, this is a long term solution, but by the year 44783, windstorm insurance would be available to hundreds of thousands of gulf-coast residents. Not to mention the fact that an additional 1 million square miles of prime land will be added to the gulf coast region. Sales of this additional real estate would generate the revenue needed to sustain the project.
In fact, at current Florida real-estate market prices per acre, the project will actually net a profit of $112.50 for each acre produced, after taxes. After adjustment for inflation, this figure is even more impressive.
Collateral gains would be realized at every step of the project. Hundreds of sunken ships once forever lost to the sea will be exposed by the draining, yielding valuable scientific and archaelogical data as well as quantities of gold and silver.
The fishing industries would benefit greatly. As the water drains, the sea life in the gulf too large to pass through the pumps would be concentrated in a much smaller area, reducing costs.
Deepwater oil and gas exploration could be accomplished with traditional drilling techniques as thousands of square miles of new oil fields become economically exploitable.
Surely this idea is worthy of a government study somewhere, eh?
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