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Old July 18th, 2009, 06:21 AM
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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
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better yet.. tow a "few hundred " icebergs into the GoM to chill off the hurricanes!!
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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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Lofl..........
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No matter what you think of the idea,this smells of money!

Sounds like work will be picking up in the GOM!
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"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
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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.
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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.
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Old July 22nd, 2009, 07:23 AM
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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!
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