Caught the last part of a CNN report the other day about the US sending fighter jets to fly through (above?) the hurricane to try and dissipate the force, how does this work? Or did I misinterpret?
During a recent trip to jolly Texas, I saw a news article featuring a mad boffin type who was proposing to use a series of jet engines pointing skywards, mounted on a raft, to
in theory create mini-hurricanes in order to dissipate the latent atmospheric energy that would have the potential to allow stronger hurricanes to develop a la Ivan, Katrina etc.
In practical terms it seems to be akin to playing Russian Roulette with Mother Nature. What's to stop one of the mini-hurricanes developing into a Cat-5 state-buster?
As ever the sheer impracticality of the scheme will no doubt be seen as a challenge to the prowess of the US, making it all the more likely that such a hare-brained scheme be adopted.
