From: CurtAdams@aol.com
Date: Thu Sep 16 1999 - 22:35:29 MDT
A friend of mine mentioned an idea he'd seen once. Hurricanes move heat from
water to the upper atmosphere - that's their main source of energy. The idea
is to deliver the heat to the upper atmosphere yourself, so the hurricane has
nothing to use.
The proposal was to build 6-mile high vents and move air through them. The
dynamics apparently cause this to be an energy-producing process.
Essentially, it works rather like a controlled thunderstorm. The article
claimed to have worked through the economics and the technical details of
building something so enormous. The energy production would not be enought
to pay for the cost of production, but if you added the energy produced to
the insurance benefits to preventing hurricances, you have a winner. As a
side benefit, air at the ground gets cooler. I suspect they did *not*
address the issue of climate change from delivering such vast amounts of heat
to the upper troposphere.
I'm sorry I can't provide a reference; I got this second-hand.
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