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| ghost7584 |
 Posted: Sun Apr 15, 2007 8:50 am Post subject: How to stop a hurricane ? |
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Get several ships loaded with 55 gallon drums of vegetable oil, and dump this oil in the sea directly in the path of the hurricane. The oil should spread out to cover the surface of a large area of ocean just before the hurricane arrives in that area.
Hurricanes get their energy from water evaporation carrying the sun's energy into the air to produce the winds. The oil slick caused by the vegetable oil should cut down the amount of water evaporation in the hurricane's path and prevent the hurricane from getting enough energy to sustain itself. So the hurricane should die out.
The vegetable oil should also be bio degradable and enter into the ocean's ecology in a short time, doing no permanent damge. |
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| Gablo51 |
| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 4:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Jellyologist |
| Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2007 10:14 pm Post subject: Re: How to stop a hurricane ? |
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| ghost7584 wrote: |
Get several ships loaded with 55 gallon drums of vegetable oil, and dump this oil in the sea directly in the path of the hurricane. The oil should spread out to cover the surface of a large area of ocean just before the hurricane arrives in that area.
Hurricanes get their energy from water evaporation carrying the sun's energy into the air to produce the winds. The oil slick caused by the vegetable oil should cut down the amount of water evaporation in the hurricane's path and prevent the hurricane from getting enough energy to sustain itself. So the hurricane should die out.
The vegetable oil should also be bio degradable and enter into the ocean's ecology in a short time, doing no permanent damge. |
should? do some math. 
Same logic as how to stop an 18 wheeler doing 70mph down the hiway...send out a mosquito to crash full speed into the windshield and stop the truck dead in it's tracks.
I hope you were kidding. If not, so much for science in school. |
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| shiva108 |
| Posted: Fri Apr 27, 2007 2:34 am Post subject: |
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Won't work, tried in small scale, the top layer of the oil gets sucked up straight away, exposing the water.
Good toughts though 
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