Weatherlawyer wrote:
How much power is there in ths air mass known as an huricane?

There is a sliding scale of diminishing returns with them, as these
systems are not stationary. What is the heat cost or energy value to
the system to do all the above on the move.

"Even though turbulence is an everyday experience it is extremely
difficult to find solutions for this class of problems. A $1,000,000
prize was offered in May 2000 by the Clay Mathematics Institute to
whoever makes substantial progress toward a mathematical theory which
will help in the understanding of this phenomenon."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Navier-Stokes_equations