Why not just fly a very large fleet of jumbo jets and military aircraft
stacked at intervals in the right direction. Their 1800+ exhausts and condensible
water vapor from a million barrels of jet fuel ~ 5.5 trillion BTU plus it's kinetic energy might make it. ????
Small investment compared to the oil used for evacuating the coastal cities.
Frederick
"Regarding the beginning and growth of hurricanes, there is another consideration. The energy estimate mentioned above is roughly 1015 BTU of kinetic energy. Current hurricane research seems to assume that the development and growth of a hurricane occurs due to energy conversions (from heat to kinetic energy) within the eye area. A rough energy audit suggests that this approach must be incorrect. Even a substantial sized "eye" (for an early storm) of a ten-mile diameter, receives a TOTAL solar energy input of around 6 * 1011 BTU/hour. If ALL of that energy was somehow converted into kinetic energy, around 1500 hours of sunlight (or over 150 days) would be required to supply all the kinetic energy in the mature storm. No physical process has perfect efficiency, so even much longer time would be required. In addition, there is always the frictional energy loss at the perimeter of the circulation that constantly dissipates energy. However, from genesi!
s to maturity, hurricanes tend to take less than 1/10 of that time. This suggests that either something is wrong in this logic or the storm somehow uses a lot of pre-existing kinetic energy (of air motion) or uses a larger solar-energy-capture area. The premise being explored here is the middle one, that pre-existing wind movements are "tuned" by resonance actions into developing concerted actions or rotary motion. If anyone has ever watched a "dust devil" appear almost instantly in a field due to gusty winds might agree with that, as it both appears and disappears extremely quickly. "
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