Humbling Hurricanes: The energy
of a Category 5 hurricane..
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Humbling Hurricanes
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/atmospheres/feature/091300feature.html
The energy of a Category 5 hurricane is about the same as all the world's power plants combined. It's no wonder that when one of these beasts makes landfall, billions of dollars in damage can result.
Now scientists are researching a way of taming these wild cyclones with vegetable oil.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are experimenting with cooking oil by coming up with a procedure that would use airplanes to spread a thin layer on the surface of the ocean. The idea is to cut off the hurricane's energy source.
"Hurricanes are beautiful natural examples of what we call heat engines," said Professor Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "They take heat energy and turn it into the energy of the wind. The heat that they use to do this comes from the ocean. And the stronger the winds at the center of the hurricane, the more evaporation occurs, the more heat is added to the hurricane, which makes the winds stronger. So it's kind of a positive feedback cycle."
But why vegetable oil?
"[It has] to be biodegradable, not in any sense environmentally harmful. Because we don't want to cause as much damage in one sense as we reduce in another," said Emanuel.
The challenge is to create a layer of the stuff that will endure hurricane-force winds, thereby reducing evaporation from the ocean surface, the fuel for hurricanes.
"There's no doubt the slick would break up. The question is whether enough of it remains to have a significant effect, whether the spray droplets remain coated," said Emanuel.
By distributing a one-molecule-thick cover of vegetable oil on the ocean's surface, scientists hope to starve the hurricane, or weaken it to a less-damaging prospect.
"We don't really know what to expect," said Emanuel. "So we have built this experimental apparatus, called a wind-wave tank, in which we will test various different compounds to determine what they do to the rates of evaporation under very high wind speed conditions."
But what are the chances this experiment will succeed?
Dr. Steve Lyons, Hurricane Expert at The Weather Channel, says there are a number of factors that could be prohibitive barriers. "You'd need to put down a coat of oil across a very large area, especially given the movement of tropical cyclones, and moist air coming in from outside the treated area would keep the tropical cyclone environment very moist and continue to supply energy. Also, you can't truly simulate a hurricane in a wave tank; very large breaking waves in an actual hurricane would disperse the oil and moisten the air," he said.
Even if the odds are extremely small, "the consequences of being successful are so great for mankind that we feel we ought to give it a shot," said Emanuel.
MORE ABOUT WEATHER CONTROL:
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/atmospheres/feature/091300feature.html
Copyright © 1995-2005, The Weather Channel Interactive, In...reaty articles AGAINST WEATHER CONTROL:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Weather_control
More weather control:
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/2070.asp
Weather/Environmental Tampering with Emphasis on EMP Technology, 1935-1992 Time Line ( http://www.alphalink.com.au/~noelmcd/articles/projects.htm).
Begins with Nikola Tesla ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla)'s 1935 Earthquake Experiments.
Hurricane Katrina
Katrina weather modification investigation ( http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/indexback178.html)
Weather control, as well as "weather tampering", is expressly forbidden dating from at least December 10, 1976, when the "United Nations General Assembly Resolution 31/72, TIAS 9614 Convention (http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/enmod/text/environ2.htm) on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques" was adopted.
HARNESSING WEATHER
ALLEGATIONS SURFACE THAT U.S. & RUSSIA HAVE TECHNOLOGY TO MANAGE HURRICANES
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/harnessing_weather.html
By Mike Blair
Author Sydney Sheldon said, “The old adage that everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it is no longer valid,” in an afterword to his fascinating novel Are You Afraid of the Dark?
“Today,” Sheldon continued, “two superpowers have the ability to control weather around the world: the United States and Russia. Other countries, probably China and North Korea, are working feverishly to catch up.”
As this article was being written the aftereffects of Hurricane Katrina were still being felt in the southeastern United States, after it caused billions of dollars in damage along the Gulf of Mexico coast, and the death toll from the killer storm was still being tabulated.
Could this devastation have been avoided? Could Katrina itself have been avoided as a death-dealing hurricane?
The answers to both questions are probably “Yes.” The ability of Russia and the United States to create storms of this magnitude definitely exists.
The big question that remains is, why, then, wasn’t Katrina stopped before it devastated three states—Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi—along the Gulf Coast?
There could be any number of reasons, but all would be mere speculation, as the fact is nothing was done to stop Katrina.
Those who doubt that Katrina, or any other hurricane, could be stopped—or created—can find substantiation in a long-forgotten article by Chen May Yee in the Nov. 13, 1997, issue of The Wall Street Journal.
The article recounts an offer by the Russians to aid Malaysia to create a typhoon to dissipate a pall of smoke that hung over the country—and still does—caused by the burning of large sections of the rain forests in Indonesia and Sumatra.
To quote from the article: Datuk Law Hieng Ding, Malaysia’s minister for science, technology and the environment at the time, said his country “would use special technology to create an artificial cyclone to clean the air.”
The article went on to say that a Malaysian company, BicCure Sdn. Bhd., would sign a memorandum of understanding with a government-owned Russian company to create a cyclone that would cause torrential rains and thus cleanse the air over Malaysia of the smoke and ash.
What Russian company was the Malaysian official talking about?
On Oct. 2, 1992, The Wall Street Journal reported that a Russian company, Elate Intelligent Technologies, Inc., has weather control equipment for sale and uses the advertising slogan of “weather made to order.”
Igor Pirogoff, director of the company, said “Elate is capable of fine-tuning weather patterns over a 200-squaremile area for as little as $200 U.S. per day,” the newspaper reported.
A year before the article was written, Hurricane Andrew caused $30 billion in damages as it plowed through the South. Pirogoff said Andrew could have been turned into “a wimpy little squall.”
According to a UN pamphlet, titled Basic Facts about the United Nations, which was published in 1994, the world body negotiated the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques in 1977. This “prohibits the use of techniques that would have widespread, long-lasting or severe effects through deliberate manipulation of natural processes and cause such phenomena as earthquakes, tidal waves, and changes in climate and in weather patterns.”
Getting back to Malaysia, where the potential for creating or dissipating cyclones seems to have made its first appearance, there was never any follow-up to the stories about Elate and whether in fact the cyclone was created, although it was approved by the Malaysian government.
A call by American Free Press to the Malaysian Embassy in
Washington found no one there with any knowledge of the
subject.
However, there was more success when the Malaysian delegation to the UN was contacted in New York. There, a spokesman claimed to have no knowledge of the creation of a cyclone, but was willing to discuss weather control in his country.
The official said that, by using weather control technology, rain could be created and was being created over the nation’s capital of Kuala Lumpur.
He said that often rain was created over the city to cleanse the air of the smoke emanating from Indonesia, and particularly Sumatra.
He indicated he did not know if the technology being used had been obtained from Russia, but it would appear that such technology to create rain on demand would not have been developed in a Third World country like Malaysia.
There have been numerous reports in recent years about strange changes in the jet stream, which have created alterations in the weather.
In 1982 a report by a Pentagon researcher, identified as L. Ponte, noted that “the Soviets have made advances in bending the all-important jet stream that sweeps across Siberia to set global wind patterns. By using explosive devices in the jet stream, scientists are trying to make it dip and rise in a wave that could replace the frigid Siberian winters with milder air from the South.”
How this would affect weather in other parts of the world was not reported by Ponte, but there have been dozens of reports since his 1982 report about changes in the jet stream’s normal behavior.
In 1996, a group of seven U.S. Air Force officers, who had prepared a research paper about weather warfare, issued a report, which concluded that there was technology under development that would provide “warriors of the future” with the means to control the course of military conflicts, including through the use of weather modification.
The study also states that manipulation of precipitation, storms and fog could improve America’s own weather but could also involve controlling the ionosphere to guarantee U.S. dominance of worldwide communications.
Is major weather control really possible? Is weather manipulation a means of conducting war? If not, why in 1977 did the United States, the then-Soviet Union and dozens of other countries believe it was a good idea to enact a UN treaty banning weather manipulation as a means of conducting war?
In the afterword of his book, Sheldon concludes:
“Weather is the most powerful force we know. Whoever controls it can disrupt world economies with perpetual rainstorms or tornadoes; wipe out crops in a drought; cause earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis; close world airports and cause devastation on enemy battlefields. “We could all sleep better if a world leader said, ‘Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it, and it was true.”
(Issue #37, September 12, 2005)
Not Copyrighted. Readers can reprint and are free to redistribute - as long as full credit is given to American Free Press - 645 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Suite 100 Washington, D.C. 20003
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/atmospheres/feature/091300feature.html
The energy of a Category 5 hurricane is about the same as all the world's power plants combined. It's no wonder that when one of these beasts makes landfall, billions of dollars in damage can result.
Now scientists are researching a way of taming these wild cyclones with vegetable oil.
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are experimenting with cooking oil by coming up with a procedure that would use airplanes to spread a thin layer on the surface of the ocean. The idea is to cut off the hurricane's energy source.
"Hurricanes are beautiful natural examples of what we call heat engines," said Professor Kerry Emanuel of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "They take heat energy and turn it into the energy of the wind. The heat that they use to do this comes from the ocean. And the stronger the winds at the center of the hurricane, the more evaporation occurs, the more heat is added to the hurricane, which makes the winds stronger. So it's kind of a positive feedback cycle."
But why vegetable oil?
"[It has] to be biodegradable, not in any sense environmentally harmful. Because we don't want to cause as much damage in one sense as we reduce in another," said Emanuel.
The challenge is to create a layer of the stuff that will endure hurricane-force winds, thereby reducing evaporation from the ocean surface, the fuel for hurricanes.
"There's no doubt the slick would break up. The question is whether enough of it remains to have a significant effect, whether the spray droplets remain coated," said Emanuel.
By distributing a one-molecule-thick cover of vegetable oil on the ocean's surface, scientists hope to starve the hurricane, or weaken it to a less-damaging prospect.
"We don't really know what to expect," said Emanuel. "So we have built this experimental apparatus, called a wind-wave tank, in which we will test various different compounds to determine what they do to the rates of evaporation under very high wind speed conditions."
But what are the chances this experiment will succeed?
Dr. Steve Lyons, Hurricane Expert at The Weather Channel, says there are a number of factors that could be prohibitive barriers. "You'd need to put down a coat of oil across a very large area, especially given the movement of tropical cyclones, and moist air coming in from outside the treated area would keep the tropical cyclone environment very moist and continue to supply energy. Also, you can't truly simulate a hurricane in a wave tank; very large breaking waves in an actual hurricane would disperse the oil and moisten the air," he said.
Even if the odds are extremely small, "the consequences of being successful are so great for mankind that we feel we ought to give it a shot," said Emanuel.
MORE ABOUT WEATHER CONTROL:
http://www.weather.com/newscenter/atmospheres/feature/091300feature.html
Copyright © 1995-2005, The Weather Channel Interactive, In...reaty articles AGAINST WEATHER CONTROL:
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Weather_control
More weather control:
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/2070.asp
Weather/Environmental Tampering with Emphasis on EMP Technology, 1935-1992 Time Line ( http://www.alphalink.com.au/~noelmcd/articles/projects.htm).
Begins with Nikola Tesla ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla)'s 1935 Earthquake Experiments.
Hurricane Katrina
Katrina weather modification investigation ( http://www.cyberspaceorbit.com/indexback178.html)
Weather control, as well as "weather tampering", is expressly forbidden dating from at least December 10, 1976, when the "United Nations General Assembly Resolution 31/72, TIAS 9614 Convention (http://www.fas.org/nuke/control/enmod/text/environ2.htm) on the Prohibition of Military or Any Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques" was adopted.
HARNESSING WEATHER
ALLEGATIONS SURFACE THAT U.S. & RUSSIA HAVE TECHNOLOGY TO MANAGE HURRICANES
http://www.americanfreepress.net/html/harnessing_weather.html
By Mike Blair
Author Sydney Sheldon said, “The old adage that everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it is no longer valid,” in an afterword to his fascinating novel Are You Afraid of the Dark?
“Today,” Sheldon continued, “two superpowers have the ability to control weather around the world: the United States and Russia. Other countries, probably China and North Korea, are working feverishly to catch up.”
As this article was being written the aftereffects of Hurricane Katrina were still being felt in the southeastern United States, after it caused billions of dollars in damage along the Gulf of Mexico coast, and the death toll from the killer storm was still being tabulated.
Could this devastation have been avoided? Could Katrina itself have been avoided as a death-dealing hurricane?
The answers to both questions are probably “Yes.” The ability of Russia and the United States to create storms of this magnitude definitely exists.
The big question that remains is, why, then, wasn’t Katrina stopped before it devastated three states—Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi—along the Gulf Coast?
There could be any number of reasons, but all would be mere speculation, as the fact is nothing was done to stop Katrina.
Those who doubt that Katrina, or any other hurricane, could be stopped—or created—can find substantiation in a long-forgotten article by Chen May Yee in the Nov. 13, 1997, issue of The Wall Street Journal.
The article recounts an offer by the Russians to aid Malaysia to create a typhoon to dissipate a pall of smoke that hung over the country—and still does—caused by the burning of large sections of the rain forests in Indonesia and Sumatra.
To quote from the article: Datuk Law Hieng Ding, Malaysia’s minister for science, technology and the environment at the time, said his country “would use special technology to create an artificial cyclone to clean the air.”
The article went on to say that a Malaysian company, BicCure Sdn. Bhd., would sign a memorandum of understanding with a government-owned Russian company to create a cyclone that would cause torrential rains and thus cleanse the air over Malaysia of the smoke and ash.
What Russian company was the Malaysian official talking about?
On Oct. 2, 1992, The Wall Street Journal reported that a Russian company, Elate Intelligent Technologies, Inc., has weather control equipment for sale and uses the advertising slogan of “weather made to order.”
Igor Pirogoff, director of the company, said “Elate is capable of fine-tuning weather patterns over a 200-squaremile area for as little as $200 U.S. per day,” the newspaper reported.
A year before the article was written, Hurricane Andrew caused $30 billion in damages as it plowed through the South. Pirogoff said Andrew could have been turned into “a wimpy little squall.”
According to a UN pamphlet, titled Basic Facts about the United Nations, which was published in 1994, the world body negotiated the Convention on the Prohibition of Military or Other Hostile Use of Environmental Modification Techniques in 1977. This “prohibits the use of techniques that would have widespread, long-lasting or severe effects through deliberate manipulation of natural processes and cause such phenomena as earthquakes, tidal waves, and changes in climate and in weather patterns.”
Getting back to Malaysia, where the potential for creating or dissipating cyclones seems to have made its first appearance, there was never any follow-up to the stories about Elate and whether in fact the cyclone was created, although it was approved by the Malaysian government.
A call by American Free Press to the Malaysian Embassy in
Washington found no one there with any knowledge of the
subject.
However, there was more success when the Malaysian delegation to the UN was contacted in New York. There, a spokesman claimed to have no knowledge of the creation of a cyclone, but was willing to discuss weather control in his country.
The official said that, by using weather control technology, rain could be created and was being created over the nation’s capital of Kuala Lumpur.
He said that often rain was created over the city to cleanse the air of the smoke emanating from Indonesia, and particularly Sumatra.
He indicated he did not know if the technology being used had been obtained from Russia, but it would appear that such technology to create rain on demand would not have been developed in a Third World country like Malaysia.
There have been numerous reports in recent years about strange changes in the jet stream, which have created alterations in the weather.
In 1982 a report by a Pentagon researcher, identified as L. Ponte, noted that “the Soviets have made advances in bending the all-important jet stream that sweeps across Siberia to set global wind patterns. By using explosive devices in the jet stream, scientists are trying to make it dip and rise in a wave that could replace the frigid Siberian winters with milder air from the South.”
How this would affect weather in other parts of the world was not reported by Ponte, but there have been dozens of reports since his 1982 report about changes in the jet stream’s normal behavior.
In 1996, a group of seven U.S. Air Force officers, who had prepared a research paper about weather warfare, issued a report, which concluded that there was technology under development that would provide “warriors of the future” with the means to control the course of military conflicts, including through the use of weather modification.
The study also states that manipulation of precipitation, storms and fog could improve America’s own weather but could also involve controlling the ionosphere to guarantee U.S. dominance of worldwide communications.
Is major weather control really possible? Is weather manipulation a means of conducting war? If not, why in 1977 did the United States, the then-Soviet Union and dozens of other countries believe it was a good idea to enact a UN treaty banning weather manipulation as a means of conducting war?
In the afterword of his book, Sheldon concludes:
“Weather is the most powerful force we know. Whoever controls it can disrupt world economies with perpetual rainstorms or tornadoes; wipe out crops in a drought; cause earthquakes, hurricanes and tsunamis; close world airports and cause devastation on enemy battlefields. “We could all sleep better if a world leader said, ‘Everyone talks about the weather, but no one does anything about it, and it was true.”
(Issue #37, September 12, 2005)
Not Copyrighted. Readers can reprint and are free to redistribute - as long as full credit is given to American Free Press - 645 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, Suite 100 Washington, D.C. 20003
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