>From: "Ross A. Finlayson" <raf@tiki-lounge.com>
>Reply-To: extropians@extropy.org
>To: extropians@extropy.com
>Subject: Weather Control
>Date: Wed, 09 Aug 2000 15:52:54 -0400
>
>Hello,
>
>I would like to ask other peoples' ideas about weather control. Can
>rain, hurricanes and lightning be organized?
>
>I think there are technical methods that could be explored to see how to
>do some of those kinds of things in terms of altering weather patterns.
>
>There are almost certainly researches about this kind of thing.
>
>Ross
>
>--
>Ross Andrew Finlayson
>Finlayson Consulting
>Ross at Tiki-Lounge: http://www.tiki-lounge.com/~raf/
>
>
It was posted here recently that cities effect weather patterns. They soak
up heat during the day (black rooftops and pavement) and release it at
night, so extreme weather patterns - I think I'm getting this right - tend
to move around them.
How about "paving" large tracts of land with a material which can change the
rate at which it gives off/soaks up heat. It would be like a national
highway system, with the highways being miles long. By changing the
temperature properties at key points in space and time, you could steer a
weather pattern wherever you wanted it to go, or at least play an influence.
Maybe steer all the hurricanes into a winmill-populated plane.
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