PHOTO GALLERY: Schemes for Stopping Tropical Storms
NOAA's Hurricane Research Division has studied numerous ideas for disrupting tropical storms over the years. Some have even been tested in the field (see "Storm Beaters: Can Hurricanes Be Stopped?"). Here's what the division's top researchers have to say about some of the most oft-suggested:
Scheme No. 1: Coat the ocean with oil or another substance
A promising idea that could stop a storm from absorbing water vapor, thus weakening it. But scientists have yet to find a chemical that can stay together in the rough seas of a tropical storm.
Scott Dodd is the editor of OnEarth.org. He has more than 15 years of experience in newspapers, magazines, and digital media and is an adjunct professor at Columbia University, where he earned a master's degree in science journalism. Visit his online... READ MORE >
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All of these "solutions" would be ecological disasters, the nuclear option belongs in the minds of severely restricted mental patients, at best. Wise up nuke dupes, there is no positive use of atomic energy, it is all bad and the sooner we admit the experiment was a failure the better. But using nuclear explosions to try and dissapate hurricanes shows just how insane some people are , and how sociopathic some can be. The arrogance necessary to dismiss the health and lives of others is something I will never understand.