[extropy-chat] FWD [PvT] Re: Anti-hurricane engineering

[Johnius]

Re:
>Texas Tech has engineered safe rooms for houses that can withstand a F5
>tornado (it was proved to be so in Moore OK in 1999) and thus should also
>be able to withstand a Cat 5. 


	Another strategy in Anti-hurricane engineering is to stop the
	hurricanes while they're still out in the ocean:

	http://winwenger.com/hurrican.htm

	"Nearly all the energy which drives a tropical disturbance comes 
	from warm surface water. Eliminate the warm surface water in the 
	immediate path-or in the breeding grounds-of a hurricane, and 
	you eliminate the hurricane. 

	A low-cost, low-energy way to eliminate the warm surface water, 
	where it would otherwise soon be feeding a hurricane or other 
	tropical disturbance, is to cause the water to 'turn over.' 
	This is done by pumping compressed air down toward gulf or sea
	bottom and releasing it. The cooler waters come to the top and 
	the hurricane loses its energy over them to become disorganized
	squalls."