Weather Banter - View Single Post - We could have now eliminated Hurricane Katrina & Ophelia with Aluminium Sequin in orbit, if we had prepared

AJ

writes:

And it is curious that Katrina headed for a fresh water entry onto land
where the Mississippi is the largest fresh water entry. Now Ophelia is
repeating that entry in the Carolinas, seeking a entry of fresh water.
Why fresh water is a magnet is a mystery. A few days ago it was the
Savannah River of Savannah Georgia. Today it is the rivers around
Wilmington North Carolina.

How dumb. There are lots of rivers along the east coast so saying that a
hurricane striking the east coast is attracted to rivers is kind of like
saying that if someone fired a shotgun at the broad side of a barn, the
shotgun pellets are attracted to cracks in the barnboards. No matter
where they hit, a crack is nearby. (Katrina crossed the Mississippi at a
right angle anyway)

If we had been prepared, we would have set up rockets with cargo of
aluminium sequin and as the hurricane season approached, we would have
readied ourselves for launches and that as Katrina formed we would have
launched a rocket and put aluminium sequin in orbit above Katrina path
and the resulting cooling by starving of sun rays would have downgraded
Katrina and spared the coast of destruction.

Hurricanes are powered by the heat of the warm water they're over. That's
why they grow stronger in tropical water and fall apart over land.
In fact, aluminum sequins might cool the upper atmosphere and (because
hurricanes are a giant heat engine) the cooler atmosphere might make
the hurricane MORE powerful by increasing the temperature difference that
powers them.

Not to mention all the other problems with orbiting aluminum sequins
that others have mentioned, which you ignore.

acj