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Recent research indicates that in order to form, a tornado needs both a cold, rainy downdraft and a warm updraft. To stop a tornado from forming, just heat this cold downdraft until it's cold no longer. And how would one do this, you ask? Simple: Blast it with beams of microwaves from a fleet of satellites. The satellites would collect solar energy, transform it into microwaves, and send a beam down to Earth. The beams would be focused on cold downdrafts, heating them like last night's leftovers. The European Space Agency has funded initial studies on building this type of satellite, though it hopes to use the satellites as high-altitude solar-power stations, not as weather modifiers.
The only problem is, microwaves don't heat air. Go turn on your microwave oven with nothing in it for a while. Does the air in it get hot? Warm even?
The satellites would collect solar energy, transform it into microwaves, and send a beam down to Earth. The beams would be focused on cold downdrafts, heating them like last night's leftovers.
Aren't tornadoes associated with thunderstorms. Aren't thunderstorms associated with heavy cloud cover?
Other ideas that might be considered might include solar mirrors reflecting and concentrating the suns energy to disrupt the tornado formation and to stop it if it has already formed.
The tornado would be sucking up a lot of earth, etc. There would be plenty of 'stuff' to heat the surrounding air.
The solar mirrors would be 'outside' the local storm and it is conceivable that the beamed heat could penetrate through the atmosphere.
Think about what you just said. "Sucking up" a lot of earth, etc.
The tornado would be sucking up a lot of earth, etc. There would be plenty of 'stuff' to heat the surrounding air.
And do what? Heat the area outside of the storm?
The solar mirrors would be 'outside' the local storm and it is conceivable that the beamed heat could penetrate through the atmosphere.
Reader R..... H.... of Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, asks: "Is there some way a small, nondeadly atomic bomb could somehow blow apart a tornado as it forms, averting any damage the storm might bring?"
While some might assume this idea to be an absurd one, we were willing to check it out (even the "nondeadly atomic bomb" part). And lo, it turns out that researchers are currently hard at work devising ways to control the weather—particularly disastrous weather systems like tornados and hurricanes—and hope to put their ideas to the test in the coming decades. Any storm depends on a host of complex, interrelated drivers, like heat flows and wind movements. The basic anti-storm strategy is to take the smallest of these factors, the one most amenable to change, and change it—in the manner, say, of throwing a wrench into the smallest cog at a factory in hopes that disrupting one part of the system will cause the entire assembly line to shut down.
Originally posted by CosmicQuest
reply to post by AlienView
How about creating an Artificial tornado , which spins in opposite direction to the original one , and colliding them ?
The only problem is, microwaves don't heat air. Go turn on your microwave oven with nothing in it for a while. Does the air in it get hot? Warm even?
Sort of depends on your point of view. Where do those billions spent on recovery come from?
The millions or billions of dollars they claim are lost every-time a tornado strikes are made up for by the billions that will be made when they rebuild it.
It is important to note that the net effect is positive because most of the recovery funds are from external sources—the federal government and insurance claims. Those funds would have gone to some other use if the tornadoes had not struck or caused the devastation. As such, from a national perspective, the combined impact is negative.
The millions or billions of dollars they claim are lost every-time a tornado strikes are made up for by the billions that will be made when they rebuild it. Sort of depends on your point of view. Where do those billions spent on recovery come from? It is important to note that the net effect is positive because most of the recovery funds are from external sources—the federal government and insurance claims. Those funds would have gone to some other use if the tornadoes had not struck or caused the devastation. As such, from a national perspective, the combined impact is negative.