Is it possible to "slow down a hurricane?" asks MIT's Moshe Alamaro. His answer, given to *The Economist* in June 2005: you build "a chain of offshore barges adorned with upward-facing jet engines." These would create preemptive micro-hurricanes, dispelling future storms. A competing idea? Artificial reefs of weather-influencing "islands" built throughout the equatorial Atlantic.
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Yeah, that's exactly what we should do. Keep building ourselves into even more trouble.
Brilliant ideas, guys!
How about preventing hurricanes through the reduction of global warming. There is a link between ambient sea temperature and the energy absorbed by hurricane forming overhead.
Jet engines will be powered by non sustainable sources and will utimately exaserbate the problem in the long term.
From the article you're discussing: "The creation of manmade tropical micro-storms, using heavy, greenhouse gas-burning jet engines towed through the waters of the equatorial Atlantic on what are, for all intents, artificial islands... is really a pretty ridiculous idea."
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