Hurricanes rapidly degrade from a category 3, 4 or 5 after making landfall. The same dynamic that forms the hurricane draws up dirt, dust, debris with then changes the energy dynamic and causes rain to fall.
Killing Hurricanes – A Lesson From Fire Sciences
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Joan_McKenna]Joan McKenna
Introduction for the Non-Scientist
Hurricanes are weather phenomena that begin with the rotation of warm air masses over water. The rotation is in a counterclockwise direction as viewed from above looking down into the hurricane. This counterclockwise rotation Is referred to as “cyclonic” rotation.
Under the laws of physics, the phenomena draws more warm air and moisture up into the rotating air mass (cells), and in this way the size, power and force of the hurricane grows.
When a hurricane makes landfall, however, the same process by which the hurricane grew is the cause of its death.
That is, the phenomena over the ocean that drew warm air and moisture into the cells, over land draws dust, dirt, leaves and other solid materials up into the cells. This material is heavier, denser and takes more energy to move around such that the energy that drives the movement of the cells is suddenly transferred to the materials and the power driving the hurricane is quickly diminished.
Also, what goes up, must come down. As the energy driving the air masses diminishes, the dust, dirt, leaves and other debris start falling earthward and as this occurs, it triggers the release of moisture with resulting rain and also, as objects fall toward the earth, they create a force that causes the air in their wake to rotate in a clockwise direction. The movement of the debris downward and the change in air rotation behind the debris acts like a series of “brakes” that disorganize the hurricane air mass. Like punching holes in it; or shooting buckshot through it; or using an opposite motion to “brake”.
What over water was a Category 3, 4 or 5 hurricane becomes downgraded to a tropical storm.
Historic efforts at killing hurricanes grew out of the use of cloud seeding technology. This involved attempts to seed the moisture filled clouds of the hurricanes with the same chemicals that had been used to seed rain clouds over land. The problem was that the warmth and energy of the hurricane cells dissolved the chemicals making them ineffective as “seeds” to pull the moisture down.
What I propose is to bring the land to the hurricane while it is over water.
Scientific studies of hurricanes involve flying into hurricanes either from above or up through the eye from a lower level. A military or cargo transport plane would serve this application.
Fly into the eye of the hurricane with one or more planes carrying one thousand tons* or more of compressed sawdust logs. Achieve an altitude at least half the height to the cell. Fly from the eye into the rotation of the cells, then turn back toward the eye and release the logs into the moving cell. The planes should be banked for a slightly increasing altitude during the release. This will move the planes out of range of being hit with the logs.
The cell will scatter the logs which will fall, (causing the clockwise wake behind them) , and as they fall, the warm air and moisture along with the force of the fall will break the logs up thereby dispersing the sawdust. The sawdust will absorb water and become heavier and cause rapid release of rain. The mass of the logs and the sawdust will degrade the intensity of the cells. The falling of the logs will disrupt the airflow of the hurricane. The hurricane will collapse.
This will take place over the ocean avoiding the flooding of massive rain over land.
This can be repeated if cell mass is still significant.*
The use of untreated pressed sawdust logs is the most ecological approach.
In those areas where other debris may be more abundant (shells that can be compressed, coconut husks, palm leaves, charcoal bricks) the same process can be used. The advantage of the sawdust logs is the initial density and ease of transport of the material.
*One three pound pressed sawdust log will disperse to a minimum of fifty square feet of sawdust fiber. The proposed volume would disperse over a minimum of six square miles within the hurricane in proximity to the core. The rate of rotation could expand the impact to hundreds of square miles.
How the Hurricane is Disrupted August 15, 2007
While some may think that the full scope of the hurricane is not affected by this procedure, they fail to understand the energy dynamic of the hurricane. Much like the brakes on a car, this procedure shuts down the energy movement that is feeding the speed and growth of the hurricane.
The thermodynamics of a growing hurricane are generally seen as cyclonic moving cells over warm water. Warm water is more easily evaporated
While true, this does not accurately describe how the hurricane continues to grow.
More accurately, we would say that the thermodynamic patterns of the core of the hurricane is creating an updraft of warm, moist air which feeds the cyclonic action of the cells.
Warm air rises. As it rises, it turns in a cyclonic direction. This movement causes a lower pressure underneath and within the air mass. This lower pressure causes faster evaporation of the already warm surface waters. If this updraft does not meet cooler air causing precipitation, the cells continue to grow in size. The increase in cell mass further decreases the pressure which increases the rate of rotation within the hurricane and the strength of the updraft resulting in more rapid evaporation.
In putting out a fire, one does not attack the smoke but seeks the source that is causing the combustion. The vulnerable point for intervention in a cyclone or hurricane’s dynamic is by disrupting the lower portion of the core.
By disorganizing the cyclonic flow in the lower one third to one half of the hurricane nearest to the surface waters, the energetic feeding of the system is interrupted.
Depositing the pressed sawdust longs in the lower half of the hurricane in proximity to the core, disrupts the updraft by transferring energy to the more massive material, causes precipitation in the lower half of the cells thereby changing the pressure over the water and cooling the surface waters The mixture of sawdust and surface water requires greater energy to uplift into the hurricane and, if uplifted, creates another secondary cycle of energy transfer from the cell to the sawdust mass, the sawdust again triggers precipitation, which then creates a change in pressure and cooling of surface waters.
Joan McKenna is a reseach scientist who has specialized in thermodynamic phenomena for thirty years.
She hold the first “life suspension” patents for freezing living materials without damage; she has developed controlled mutation to allow for true genetic adaptation to extreme environments; known for her research in cancer and in optimizing immune competence. Her training in Fire Sciences enabled her to recognize the thermodynamic phenomena that would put out and keep down a hurricane.
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