Maybe I am just stupid, but how do you deploy 1.6m pumps in 24 hrs or less? Storms could change course at any time. Look at the one headed for Tampa, FL and ended up making a hard right turn and hit way south of Tampa. Also, once the storm passes and spreads these pumps all over the ocean, who is going to collect them? This is stupid and I hope our tax dollars DON\’T pay for it. If anyone thinks it\’s not stupid, then please, please explain this to me.
That would mean each ship would have 1.5 minutes to deploy each pump. (1000 pumps divided by 24 hours (1,440 minutes)= 1.44 minutes for each pump. That is not going to happen unless they are running full speed and just dropping them overboard. Also, again, who is going out to pick them up after they have been scattered by the storm??
Also how powerful would a pump have to be to churn water from 400 feet down? Wouldn\’t said pump cost thousands of dollars? Wouldn\’t then 1.6 million pumps cost several billion? Not to mention the vast amount of resources both human (hundreds of ships = thousands of pump operators essentially floating in the path of a severe hurricane) but also cost of ships, cost of coordination, cost of adminstration…
The article calls it a \”billion dollar Idea\”. I call it a \”$10 billion idea with tons of risks\”.
My idea is to just put a bunch of large fans along the US coastline and turn them on to blow the hurricane in a different direction. Where do I apply for a government grant for my research?
A few words about science. Just about everything we take for granted today was referred to as \”crackpot\” science by people like you at some point in the past. Airplanes, cell phones, personal computers. Whether or not the this idea is ultimately what is used to defuse hurricanes is irrelevant. It is important to fund this at the research level to see where it leads. The technology developed and lessons learned can lead to great things. Entrepreneurs will take over when the time is right.
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Maybe I am just stupid, but how do you deploy 1.6m pumps in 24 hrs or less? Storms could change course at any time. Look at the one headed for Tampa, FL and ended up making a hard right turn and hit way south of Tampa. Also, once the storm passes and spreads these pumps all over the ocean, who is going to collect them? This is stupid and I hope our tax dollars DON\’T pay for it. If anyone thinks it\’s not stupid, then please, please explain this to me.
Would have to be ship-based — i.e., picture 100 ships each operating 1000 pumps.
That would mean each ship would have 1.5 minutes to deploy each pump. (1000 pumps divided by 24 hours (1,440 minutes)= 1.44 minutes for each pump. That is not going to happen unless they are running full speed and just dropping them overboard. Also, again, who is going out to pick them up after they have been scattered by the storm??
Also how powerful would a pump have to be to churn water from 400 feet down? Wouldn\’t said pump cost thousands of dollars? Wouldn\’t then 1.6 million pumps cost several billion? Not to mention the vast amount of resources both human (hundreds of ships = thousands of pump operators essentially floating in the path of a severe hurricane) but also cost of ships, cost of coordination, cost of adminstration…
The article calls it a \”billion dollar Idea\”. I call it a \”$10 billion idea with tons of risks\”.
My idea is to just put a bunch of large fans along the US coastline and turn them on to blow the hurricane in a different direction. Where do I apply for a government grant for my research?
Brewster\’s Millions
Dont let congress get involved – all that hot air would cause a Cat 3 to become a Cat 5 in no time.
What we need is 2,000 parasols the size of Tampa, on bouys off the ocast.
A few words about science. Just about everything we take for granted today was referred to as \”crackpot\” science by people like you at some point in the past. Airplanes, cell phones, personal computers. Whether or not the this idea is ultimately what is used to defuse hurricanes is irrelevant. It is important to fund this at the research level to see where it leads. The technology developed and lessons learned can lead to great things. Entrepreneurs will take over when the time is right.
Why don\’t we just get like 100 atomic bombs and set them off in the path of the storms.
Cooling pumps…this is ridiculous. Oh, and lets research this in a pool too. That is close enough gallonage as the Atlantic ocean.