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   From: nognog@adelphia.net   
      
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   >   
   > Cardinal Chunder wrote:   
   >> How does a laser light keep a hurricane from moving please o wise one.   
   >   
   > She didn't suggest the laser light would keep the hurricane from   
   > moving, but rather break it up. You can break something up while it's   
   > still moving - witness a thrown glass bottle hitting a wall, or a   
   > hurricane crossing cold water.   
   >   
   > The outstanding problem with Barbara's idea is the lack of suitably   
   > powerful lasers, not the basic idea.   
   >   
   > 1) Hurricanes are heat engines that are sustained with specific air and   
   > moisture flow patterns.   
   > 2) Lasers can heat air, and can definitely heat water vapor (as found   
   > in clouds), thereby causing expansion and flow.   
   >   
   > If you started generating hot spots where a hurricane needed cold areas   
   > for proper hurricane-type circulation then, yes, you might break it up.   
   >   
   > But then rude reality intrudes: the most powerful available lasers   
   > might as well be laser pointers compared to the amount of energy   
   > required to heat cubic kilometers of air and megatons of water vapor.   
   > Nuclear bombs may not be adequate (and they'd annoy the EPA more, too).   
   >   
   > Mike Miller   
   You need to dump millions of tons of Jello under the storm to stop the storm   
   generator.   
      
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