Bill Gates targets hurricanes

[weathernsm]

Microsoft's Bill Gates, one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution, has now set out on a new venture, to fight hurricanes.

Bill Gates wants to control the strength of hurricanes.

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-5...ets-hurricanes

[seadawg]

better yet.. tow a "few hundred " icebergs into the GoM to chill off the hurricanes!!

[Capt_Anonymous]

Microsoft's Bill Gates, one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution, has now set out on a new venture, to fight hurricanes.

Bill Gates wants to control the strength of hurricanes.

http://www.examiner.com/examiner/x-5181-Jackson-Weather-Examiner~y2009m7d17-Bill-Gates-targets-hurricanes

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[mtskier]

Lofl..........

[Capt Leigh]

No matter what you think of the idea,this smells of money!

Sounds like work will be picking up in the GOM!

[Hobie]

"hundreds of barges used to cool the water"... and just think when these break loose and ram the coast, drill rigs, ships, lost at sea!

I like the iceberg towing idea better

[Jeffrox]

JOBS!! operating, manning, moving the barges. Maybe even a special "endorsement" in your MMC, Officer-in-charge of MicroSoft Hurricane Snuffer.
Maybe get the Oil Companies to back-fit a device on the rigs to do the upwelling of chilly water.
(I can't believe I even bothered commenting; it's a slow day)

[fredwx]

I suspect it would take quite a large number of barges and who wants to volunteer to tow these things towards an on-coming major hurricane anyway? Imagine the lawyers that would get involved if a storm veered off cource after being cooled off and hit another area nearby.

[SubGuy]

Is anyone else bothered by the fact that one minute these people are worrying about man-induced climate change and the next minute they are proposing changing weather patterns?

I'm pretty sure that there would be unintended (negative) consequences to mitigating the strength of hurricanes!

[Mikey]

Here's a new one... A japanese company is developing a fleet of submarines to do the same for typhoons in the Western Pacific. Cool the surface temp = weaken storms.