Doug Jones wrote:
> "Ross A. Finlayson" wrote:
> >
> > Perhaps it is possible to modify wind currents using various methods. If that
> > is so, then perhaps water also, if not because it is a gaseous versus a liquid
> > medium.
>
> That doesn't parse well. Do you mean to modify ocean currents? Since
> they are driven by very massive salinity and temperature variations
> across thousands of kilometers, it would be difficult to influence
> them. Air is a thousand times easier to work with (literally, by
> density) and convection has a vertical scale of only 11 km or so.
>
My idea here was to use generated sonic environment cues to effect pressure. An
alternative might be the use of focussed radio waves. The way I see it is that
these produce cavitation in the areas of existing gas or liquid flow, or otherwise
generally just do what it can. It's a pretty broad concept.
>
> > The cell tower you describe sounds like a lightning rod for hurricanes.
>
> Yes, intended to dissipate the energy continuously rather than
> catastrophically. Ya gotta admire the sheer scale of the megaengineering
> concept- hundreds of miles-tall towers, whirring with wind and hydro
> turbines, vacuuming up all flying creatures near the base and hurling
> them skyward. (This would also include small aircraft and wayward
> pedestrians.)
>
> On the gripping hand, suppressing hurricanes could be as bad
> ecologically as suppressing fires in the forests of North America has
> been- the current system is evolved not just to accommodate storms, but
> likely requires them.
>
> --
> Doug Jones
> Rocket Plumber, XCOR Aerospace
> http://www.xcor-aerospace.com
Yeah, the weather isn't that bad.
-- Ross Andrew Finlayson Finlayson Consulting Ross at Tiki-Lounge: http://www.tiki-lounge.com/~raf/
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