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   From: marko@somewhereovertherainbow.hr.retro.com   
      
   br wrote:   
   > "Michael Gray"  a écrit dans le   
   > message de news:n7f1j15q1tooo0fh61gagkk47fp9h91o1k@4ax.com...   
   >> On 20 Sep 2005 19:28:13 GMT, Ian Stirling    
   >> wrote:   
   >> Ice?   
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   > 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.   
      
   During one experiment the former USSR dumped one whole tanker of oil in the   
   Pacific in an effort to stop a hurricane. The experiment failed.   
      
      
      
   USA experimented with silver-iodine dispersing it on a large scale from an   
   aeroplane. There was no mathematically provable success.   
      
      
      
   And as with Jello... ok, do you have enough Jello to cover a large piece of   
   Mexican Gulf? And what happens when that nice thick Jello gets accelerated   
   to 200 mi/h?? A lot more damage than from water droplets at the same speed.   
      
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