Current Events > Can we stop or disrupt a hurricane through extreme engineering and technology?

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Here's my proposal. Hurricane's need warm water and low pressure. If you look across the country and around the world, we see many man-made wonder-like structures that no one ever thought we'd ever be able to build, like bridges, skyscrapers, ships and aircraft carriers, etc.
Is it possible (though it might take years) to build a system of frigid coils out in the gulfs that would cool down the water and air temperatures when a hurricane approaches in order to mitigate it's formation and impact? The cooling coils would not have to run all year long, just when a hurricane begins to form. Could we build like a series of huge monoliths that can become very cold when a storm approaches?

it would cost alot of money. it might work. but it would be really hard to convince the government to spend that money. someone would say "it won't work!" and they would cancel it

If we built some type of barrier, we could keep the hurricanes out.
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what if hurricanes are a necessary part of nature? the way forest fires are

Huge monoliths out in the middle of the ocean? That's not in our capabilities at the moment, and probably wouldn't work as well as you are thinking.

But yeah we will be getting more and more powerful hurricanes going forward due to the oceans warming since more evaporation powers up the storms. The coasts are less and less appealing as time moves on.

FLUFFYGERM posted...

what if hurricanes are a necessary part of nature? the way forest fires are

I was thinking about that too. SHOULD we do such a thing.

NYmasajista posted...

Huge monoliths out in the middle of the ocean? That's not in our capabilities at the moment, and probably wouldn't work as well as you are thinking.

But yeah we will be getting more and more powerful hurricanes going forward due to the oceans warming since more evaporation powers up the storms. The coasts are less and less appealing as time moves on.

They make big ass oil rigs out there. How much harder would it be to put a monolithic coil?

Cocytus posted...

NYmasajista posted...

Huge monoliths out in the middle of the ocean? That's not in our capabilities at the moment, and probably wouldn't work as well as you are thinking.

But yeah we will be getting more and more powerful hurricanes going forward due to the oceans warming since more evaporation powers up the storms. The coasts are less and less appealing as time moves on.

They make big ass oil rigs out there. How much harder would it be to put a monolithic coil?

Those big ass oil rigs drill for expensive ass oil to sell for big ass money
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weapon_d00d816 posted...

Cocytus posted...

NYmasajista posted...

Huge monoliths out in the middle of the ocean? That's not in our capabilities at the moment, and probably wouldn't work as well as you are thinking.

But yeah we will be getting more and more powerful hurricanes going forward due to the oceans warming since more evaporation powers up the storms. The coasts are less and less appealing as time moves on.

They make big ass oil rigs out there. How much harder would it be to put a monolithic coil?

Those big ass oil rigs drill for expensive ass oil to sell for big ass money

Yeah but look at the costs of multiple hurricanes. It might very well make sense financially.

Could we disrupt Tsunamis by detonating a nuclear device in the middle, causing it to collapse in on itself like a house of cards?
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Could we build a giant robot that punches hurricanes?
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I feel like something with that sort of power would raise as many problems as it solves
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I've been studying this for a while now. I don't think we could destroy the hurricane itself but harnessing its own power to open up a wormhole and sending it elsewhere is absolutely feasible.
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DreadedWave posted...

Could we build a giant robot that punches hurricanes?

Someone hire this man
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Cocytus posted...

weapon_d00d816 posted...

Cocytus posted...

NYmasajista posted...

Huge monoliths out in the middle of the ocean? That's not in our capabilities at the moment, and probably wouldn't work as well as you are thinking.

But yeah we will be getting more and more powerful hurricanes going forward due to the oceans warming since more evaporation powers up the storms. The coasts are less and less appealing as time moves on.

They make big ass oil rigs out there. How much harder would it be to put a monolithic coil?

Those big ass oil rigs drill for expensive ass oil to sell for big ass money

Yeah but look at the costs of multiple hurricanes. It might very well make sense financially.

Or it might not.

Leaders are reluctant to spend almost equal money on something that may not work when you could just do what actually works.

I'm also going with "we don't have the technology".
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I've heard about that one military facility in the states that screws around with weather -related tech. Wouldnt be surprised it if was already possible on smaller levels
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Cocytus posted...

Yeah but look at the costs of multiple hurricanes. It might very well make sense financially.

even if you could run the numbers on this theoretical project and say, "this would cost the country less than 1 year of cleaning up after [hurricanes]", you're still not going to get anyone to fund it.
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