In article , anoldfart2
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Hurricane Rita will destroy the USA

Goodbye everyone

Just drop a 100 MT nuclear bomb, like the "Tsar Bomba", in the center of
Rita, and she would be history immediately :-)


http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Russia/TsarBomba.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsar_Bomba



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Lars

Lars wrote:
In article , anoldfart2
@invalid.com says...
Hurricane Rita will destroy the USA

Goodbye everyone

Just drop a 100 MT nuclear bomb, like the "Tsar Bomba", in the center
of Rita, and she would be history immediately :-)

A cat 5 hurricane releases energy (in the form of latent heat of
evaporation) at a rate equivalent to a 10 Megaton detonation every 20
minutes or so.

Rita would swallow your Tsar Bomba, belch appreciatively, wipe her
mouth, then proceed to distribute radioactive fallout across the entire
southeastern US...

In article ,
says...
Rita would swallow your Tsar Bomba,
And vanish :-)

First, take my hypotetical suggestion with a smile.
Such nuclear detonation would damage much more than the hurricane, in
all aspects. So it was only as a hypotetical solution :-)

You can't compare the energy release from a hurricane with a 50 MT
nuclear bomb, very far from (read below)

"Because the Tsar Bomba is the highest energy device ever detonated, it
also represents the highest power device ever used by humans. Since 50
Mt is 2.1x1017 joules, the average power produced during the entire
fission-fusion process that took place in around 3.9x10-8 seconds or 39
nanoseconds was around 5.3x1024 watts or 5.3 yottawatts.
This represents a power just greater than one percent of the average
power output of the Sun (383 yottawatts)."

and also

"atmospheric irregularities caused blast damage up to 1,000 km away (due
to atmospheric focusing, where localized regions of destructive blast
damage can be created many hundreds of kilometers away);"

As far as I remember Rita is only 300 km in radius.
The effect from a 50 MT detonation, would even destroy wooden houses
outside the hurricane perimeter. It sound like you dont imagine what is
going on a closer range :-)



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Lars

Lars wrote:

Such nuclear detonation would damage much more than the hurricane,
in all aspects. So it was only as a hypotetical solution :-)

Putting aside the radioactive fallout issue -

Wouldn't the detonation shock of such a blast create enough of a
disturbance to the inner vortex of the eye-wall such that the
hurricane would lose it's rotational organization?

It's not as much a matter of trying to release as much energy in a
blast to equal the amount of heat energy that's driving a hurricane.
It's a matter of trying to disorganize the circulating vortex air
pattern of the eye wall (which is acting like a "worm hole" that is
connecting areas of high and low pressure). If you can blast the
eyewall away, then the entire moving weather pattern will probably not
have enough ocean left to re-organize itself into another hurricane
before it hits land.

And if it did, and if it was done far enough away from land, then
perhaps the loss of rotational organization would result in less
dramatic and wide-spread distribution of fallout (which might just
rain down into the water and settle on the sea floor).

See also:

http://www.usatoday.com/weather/reso...k/wfaqhurm.htm

http://www.20six.co.uk/Heraldblog/ar...v2dv50fgxh.htm

In article , says...
It's a matter of trying to disorganize the circulating vortex air
pattern of the eye wall (which is acting like a "worm hole" that is
connecting areas of high and low pressure). If you can blast the
eyewall away, then the entire moving weather pattern will probably not
have enough ocean left to re-organize itself into another hurricane
before it hits land.

I would certainly say that the eyewall + much more would be blasted
away.
I saw on a web-site that a full-developed hurricane produces 20x10^13
watt of heat energy, from where 10% or 2x10^13 is the mechanical energy.

Compare that to the 50 MT detonation which produces 5.3x10^24 watt,
which is a factor 26,5 billion over the hurricane, this is also nothing
less than 1,3 % of what our sun produces.

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


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Lars