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How about a Giant Space Mirror?

LJK — 9/23/2005 12:02:10 PM (archived)

Reflect all the sunlight in an intense beam on the hurricane and evaporate it.

Then we use the mirror to aim sunlight at power receiving stations on Earth and say goodbye oil crisis!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_Power_Satellite

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How about detonating a H-Bomb in a HURRICANE? - carl - 9/22/2005 5:24:15 PM
- Here is a link. - DFM - 9/23/2005 3:11:32 AM
  - Sure you can...Just build an undersea pipeline... - Scott Evil - 9/26/2005 3:53:00 PM
  - Rita's radar with very strange returns on the image loop - Eric - 9/25/2005 3:55:28 PM
    - It's not "radar", but still, that's pretty weird. - jms - 9/26/2005 3:09:27 AM
  - Messing with hurricanes might not be a good idea anyway. - Tom Brosz - 9/24/2005 9:51:21 PM
    - re: Messing with hurricanes might not be a good idea anyway. - grassbur - 9/26/2005 6:42:09 AM
- The only thing that we could do to reduce the intensity of a hurricane - David F Mayer - 9/23/2005 3:08:34 AM
  - I think you just gave about fifty enviromentalists heart attacks. - Tom Brosz - 9/23/2005 4:36:23 PM
    - re: I think you just gave about fifty enviromentalists heart attacks. - grassbur - 9/26/2005 6:44:42 AM
    - Ever hear of pouring oil on troubled waters? - David F Mayer - 9/23/2005 8:35:48 PM
      - Would vegetable oil work? - Lee - 9/25/2005 12:02:15 AM
        
        It occurs to me... - Tom Brosz - 9/26/2005 6:09:06 PM
        
        Fatty acids form mono-molecular films over water. - David F Mayer - 9/25/2005 2:20:06 AM
        
        They said the same about going to the Moon 60 years ago. (n/t) - Lee - 9/25/2005 7:46:34 AM
      - That's it! - Tom Brosz - 9/23/2005 11:01:12 PM
        
        You're alomost there, Tom! - DL - 9/24/2005 7:23:48 AM
- REPOST: Energy of a hurricane - R.L. - 9/22/2005 9:15:38 PM
  - Not exactly dwarfs our arsenals - dtb - 9/24/2005 4:45:15 AM
  - But if we took one nugget of plutonium and dropped it in the eye - Davinhannes - 9/22/2005 9:24:12 PM
    - re: But if we took one nugget of plutonium and dropped it in the eye - grassbur - 9/26/2005 6:50:18 AM
      - Which we could then use to fund major research - DL - 9/26/2005 2:35:38 PM
    - LOL - R.L. - 9/22/2005 9:32:14 PM
- Detonating a H-Bomb in a HURRICANE would have the same effect as peeing on it -- NONE! - David F Mayer - 9/22/2005 6:59:29 PM
  - But if everyone on Earth drank a lot of water and got together and... - LJK - 9/23/2005 11:58:45 AM
- Set the way-back machine for about 3 weeks ago :-) - McFly - 9/22/2005 5:31:20 PM
  - never mind - carl - 9/22/2005 5:42:44 PM
    - No problem... - Tom Brosz - 9/22/2005 7:32:36 PM
      - How about a Giant Space Mirror? - LJK - 9/23/2005 12:02:10 PM
        
        Evaporation is what fuels it! - Scott Evil - 9/23/2005 1:55:56 PM
        
        re: Evaporation is what fuels it! - LJK - 9/23/2005 1:59:40 PM
        
        Use it to terraform mars. - Scott Evil - 9/23/2005 2:33:22 PM
        
        Just terraform? - LJK - 9/23/2005 2:55:48 PM
        
        Meanwhile, some people are making serious-ly crazy comments - LJK - 9/23/2005 2:32:36 PM
        
        The funny thing is that Hurricanes aren't necessarily bad! - Scott Evil - 9/23/2005 2:38:05 PM
        
        re: The funny thing is that Hurricanes aren't necessarily bad! (n/t) - grassbur - 9/26/2005 8:11:18 AM
        
        It's the same with prairie and forest fires. - Mary Anne - 9/24/2005 10:11:31 PM

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