> If you try to modify the weather without permission
I had to laugh at your wording :) I am picturing someone with a drone carrying a sack of silver iodide suddenly having a very bad day.
I had to laugh at your wording :) I am picturing someone with a drone carrying a sack of silver iodide suddenly having a very bad day.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28491494
Are they only outputs, or could they be GPIO? What would happen with a giant prism above a cloud?
A very pretty cloud, for sure, Somewhere Over the Rainbow. I just wonder whether the ice crystals could be persuaded to melt quicker, and drop their rain. Cheaper than silver iodide for cloud seeding. I have no idea who to talk to about this, or any clue how to simulate it in a lab.
It's quite unlikely that it would disrupt cyclone, but someone with better fluid mechanics knowledge can probably do such calculation.
So, what is the real answer? I'm not advocating the idea, but why is it not feasible?
2. The heat energy used by a hurricane is roughly equivalent to one Hiroshima per second, which at least reduces the impact of 1., but tells you how large the scale difference is
3. Explosions produce shockwaves which only change instantaneous pressure, and are totally ineffective at changing barometric pressure, the one thing you want to increase, because barometric pressure is the weight of all the air above the ground
4. The storm is now radioactive
I was thinking that a powerful enough explosion may disrupt the winds. And it seemed to be that a disruption of the winds may dissipate a storm. I suppose that the concept of "what a storm is" may not be very clear to the layman, including myself. Until a few minutes ago it seemed to me that a hurricane is just winds going around in a circle.
Ahh got it