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Date: October 22, 2024 at 00:58:31
From: EQF, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Renewable Energy Research |
URL: Earthquake Forecasting Research |
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Hi Mr. Bopp and all,
As you, Mr. Bopp, have a degree in physics you should probably like a report on my newest Earthquake Forecasting Internet Web site.
https://eq-forecasting.webnode.page/index/
I dumped my original Web site because it kept getting increasingly expensive to run. Another free Web site that I created dumped me after a month because they said that there were not enough people visiting my Web site.
Talk about insults!
Anyway,
A fairly good amount of the Renewable Energy Research that is being done by governments and various groups around the world is actually based on research that I have done myself over the years.
There are several ways that I could prove that. This present note discusses one of them.
At my new Web site there is at the moment just one large Web page. Its name is Energy-Islands.
That report proposes that we should be building giant barges that would travel around on the ocean collecting wind, wave, and solar energy along with other types of energy. The barges would eventually return to a port and dump their stored energy cargo onto a country's energy grid.
This subject matter will, if time permits, be discussed in a letter sent to President Biden and whoever gets elected next month. Also, if time permits, that information will be sent to the 4 presidential and vice-presidential hopefuls some time later this week.
Finally,
When President Obama was in the White House I contacted his administration personnel and told them that if they wanted to learn how to deal with all of the gun violence that we constantly see here in the U.S. they should start with a concept called:
SMART WEAPONS
Smart Weapons are actually firearms that are appropriate for the environment in which they exist.
So, a shotgun in a farmer's barn would have a dramatically different construction than a firearm that a homeowner with children had in his or her residence.
In hindsight, what I should have added when I contacted them is that:
SMART WEAPONS need to be created by SMART PEOPLE!
With humor intended, SMART PEOPLE were apparently in short supply during the Obama administration along with most other U.S. Government Administrations!
These are personal opinions.
Regards to all,
EQF
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Date: October 25, 2024 at 15:33:46
From: EQF, [DNS_Address]
Subject: How To Control Hurricanes - Oct. 25, 2024 |
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Posted by EQF on October 25, 2024
Hi folks,
If you did not look at the Energy Islands Web page on my new Web site because you are not interested in that subject matter, you might still want to look at the Web page in order to see what I proposed regarding controlling hurricanes.
The proposed procedure involves creating areas of cooler water in the expected path of a hurricane. As hurricanes rely on warm water, cooling the water in their expected path could, in theory, deprive them of energy, possibly causing them to quickly vanish.
That hurricane control subject matter will be discussed in a separate Web page if when I have time to prepare it.
Could that proposed hurricane control method actually work?
Weather forecasters and other technical people could do some theory work to get an idea regarding the possibility of it working. Then, some government or research group would actually have to try it.
Finally,
My new Web pages usually ask people if they will accept cookies on their computer. That is the Web provider's question, not mine. You can just ignore the question and my Web pages should still load.
These are personal opinions,
Regards to all,
EQF
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Date: October 25, 2024 at 21:24:26
From: Skywise, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: How To Control Hurricanes - Oct. 25, 2024 |
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I honestly think you grossly underestimate the amount of energy involved
in a hurricane. Some quick google research and number crunching I come
up with a typical hurricane releasing the equivalent energy of 10 Hiroshima
sized bombs.... every second!
As you correctly stated, hurricanes derive their energy from the heat of
the ocean. It is then released as condensation. That energy I mentioned is
released as latent heat in the form of rain.
It seems to me that in order to affect a hurricane's development, the amount
of water cooling required would have to be a significant fraction of the
energy that would otherwise be released by said hurricane. In other words,
a cooling system on the order of several atomic bombs worth of energy every
second.
That would be one very massive water chiller.
Oh, and then that system would have to be powered. And that means that the
cooling system would have to consume at least that same several atomic
bombs worth of energy every second.
Further, thermodynamics being what it is, no energy conversion is 100%
efficient, it would take EVEN MORE energy.
Then, that's only for one second of cooling. Multiply by 86,400 seconds
per day, and multiply again for how many days a hurricane.... Now we're
talking about millions of megatons of energy. Perhaps more.
And where are we going to get all that energy? I don't think even a million
of your energy islands would suffice. Keep in mind, that a typical hurricane
releases about 200 times the world's electricity capacity per day.
Mother Nature plays with truly phenomenal amounts energy. Anything we
humans do are but a match compared to the Sun. Sure, we're causing global
warming, but how many years did it take us to do that? At least a hundred
years of concerted polluting to get where we are now. And that is just to
raise the air temperature about 0.5 C. Water has over 4 times the heat
capacity of air, and we'd need to cool a heck of a lot of water more than
0.5 C to even think of affecting a hurricane.
Just based on the energy numbers involved, it seems to me your idea is a
nonstarter.
But, I'm open to hearing of solutions.
Brian
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Date: October 25, 2024 at 23:59:37
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: How To Control Hurricanes - Oct. 25, 2024 |
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and besides, hurricanes are nature's way of cleaning and protecting the environment...they are natural! why would man think he needs to fuck with that? so he can protect his beach houses with his misguided interference? bah...
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Date: October 26, 2024 at 00:41:25
From: ryan, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: How To Control Hurricanes - Oct. 25, 2024 |
URL: https://www.wunderground.com/article/storms/hurricane/news/2024-09-06-hurricane-benefits-good-things |
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5 Things Hurricanes Can Do That Are Actually Good
Peyton Galyean
We often look at the destruction that comes along with hurricanes and tropical storms – and for good reason – but there are benefits that come along with these storms as well.
Here are five things hurricanes can do that might be beneficial:
1. Bring Rainfall to Areas That Need It
Tropical cyclones are extremely efficient at rainfall production, and thus can also be efficient drought busters.
In areas of drought, such as parts of the Southeast and Northeast, rain from a tropical cyclone can be beneficial.
Moisture from decaying tropical cyclones in the eastern Pacific occasionally gets caught up in the west-to-east flow of the United States and reaches the Desert Southwest. California and much of the Desert Southwest are desperate for rain, so an influx of moisture from a tropical system could be good news for that region.
Of course, often tropical cyclone rain is "too much of a good thing" for any drought area.
Tropical Storm Debby in 2012 erased a drought in the Deep South, but also triggered major inland flooding in those same drought areas of north Florida and south Georgia.
2. Break Up Bacteria and Red Tide
As tropical cyclones move across the ocean, winds and waves toss the water's contents. This mixing breaks up patches of bacteria that lurk in the water and can bring an earlier end to the red tide, which can occur along the Gulf Coast and the West Coast.
Winds can also oxygenate the near surface waters, helping return life to areas where the red tide once existed.
3. Provide a Global Heat Balance
One of the main purposes for hurricanes around the globe is a temperature balance between the poles and the equator.
This imbalance of temperatures will always exist due to the orientation of the polar axis of our planet. Earth’s equator receives more solar energy, called insolation, than any other latitude on a yearly average. This insolation warms the ocean temperature, which in turn warms the air above it and keeps it warmer long into the autumn.
Earth is always trying to spread this warm wealth around the world, and hurricanes are one of the ways this is done. Mid-latitude storm systems and oceanic currents are others.
Hurricanes, due to their size and interactions with the upper levels of the atmosphere, are very efficient movers of equatorial heat.
The equator would be considerably warmer and the poles could be significantly cooler if tropical cyclones did not exist.
In 2016, Blas used the warm waters of the eastern Pacific to become a major hurricane and produce very heavy rainfall far from land. After the storm passed, it left cooler water behind.
This oceanic heat is not simply extinguished after being removed from the ocean – it is slowly wrung out in thunderstorms as hurricanes move poleward. The cold water left behind in hurricanes can weaken new hurricanes that pass over that same area.
Article imageCooler water is often left behind by hurricanes, as seen here. Ocean temperature (red is warm and green is cooler) overlaid by rain rate. Overlay: Yellow and red indicate higher rainfall rates while purple indicates light rain.
4. Replenish Barrier Islands
Although most images we see of barrier islands after hurricanes show beaten-up swaths of land, barrier islands often get replenished as a hurricane moves through.
Hurricanes have the power to pick up substantial amounts of sand, nutrients and sediment on the ocean’s bottom and bring it toward those barrier islands. Storm surge, wind and waves will often move these islands closer to the mainland as sand is pushed or pulled in that direction.
Without tropical cyclones or artificial restoration, barrier islands would eventually shrink and sink into the ocean.
Hurricanes can do immense barrier island damage, as Charley did in 2004, but even that storm brought some beneficial sand to the coast.
5. Replenish Inland Plant Life
What isn’t blown around on the ground during a hurricane can sometimes be carried hundreds of miles downstream.
As hurricanes make landfall, their wind blows spores and seeds further inland from where they would normally fall; this effect can be seen a thousand miles inland as storms move away from the shoreline. These seeds can replenish lost growth after fires and urbanization.
Tropical systems often thin out tree foliage, which can be beneficial in firefighting efforts. The act of pruning trees as to mitigate damage can also help.
One study said that the loss of foliage in hurricanes and other natural disasters aids long-distance seed dispersal.
Fresh nutrients and sediment brought in by hurricanes can spawn growth spurts in new plant life, which can later lead to upticks in animal life.
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