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   From: brandall@wanadoo.fr   
      
   "Michael Gray"  a écrit dans le message   
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   > On 20 Sep 2005 19:28:13 GMT, Ian Stirling    
   > wrote:   
   > Ice?   
      
      
      
   Ice wouldn't last long enough and would be too heavy. We would need   
   something :   
   1.lighter than water, perhaps hydrophobe enough to slow evaporation of the   
   surface water underneath.   
   2.opaque, light-colored, preferably white, to change the surface albedo as   
   much as possible.   
   3.bio-degradable after, say 72 hours   
   4.cheap, 'cause we'd need A LOT OF IT   
      
      
   Combining this with an "albedo attack" from above (darkening the tops of the   
   circling, white, hurricane clouds with a dark smoke or haze would warm them   
   from above, thus lessening the funnel action in the middle, or eye of the   
   storm.   
      
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