> From: "Jones Beene" <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, June 6, 2013 10:20:07 AM > Subject: RE: [Vo]:Rossi in Florida ... > Anyway - some time ago we talked about a possible remedy to nip a > tropical storm in the bud, so to speak, using Pentagon technology … which is > actually available now. ... > http://www.space.com/businesstechnology/technovel_darpa_lasers_050830.html > while using the airborne laser beams to continually ionize a > conductive path to ground (or water) in order to cancel charge accumulation > all along > the storm front?
> In the end - bureaucratic inertia. Get used to it. Once a month I travel a road which is susceptible to landslides. (They've even installed gates at each end, which they close while it's blocked). I stopped one time to take some photos of a slide, and chatted to the Caltran (California Transport Authority) guy in charge. I asked him why they didn't just take a bulldozer up the cliff and clean out a section which is likely to fall in the next couple of years. Liability, he said. If they leave it alone, it's an "act of god". They meddle with it, they own it, and the liability of not doing it right.
