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Is it possible to steer the weather by heating the atmosphere with power beaming microwaves? Is it possible to cancel the vortical formation of a tornado or a
by westurner 1y ago
Is it possible to steer the weather by heating the atmosphere with power beaming microwaves?
Is it possible to cancel the vortical formation of a tornado or a hurricane with microwave power beam(s)?
Does heating the atmosphere with microwaves change the weather, or the jet stream, or the cloud cover?
What sort of a fluidic weather simulator could answer this question?
Is there a fluid simulation device that allows for precise wireless heating of certain points in the fluid?
If so, there could be international space law to study and control for the known and presumed risks of space-based microwave power beaming.
- gus_massa 1y agoNuking a hurricane would not break it because nukes are not big enough https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/26/weather/hurricane-nuclear-bomb-noaa-wxc-trnd https://edition.cnn.com/2019/08/26/weather/hurricane-nuclear... I think it's possible to nuke a tornado, but if someone does it to try to save a city, I expect even more destruction. I don't expect the beam to be energetic enough to change anything. The closest method I can think of is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_seeding but it doesn't distribute energy, just tiny crystals to condense oversaturated vapor.
- westurner 1y agoTheoretically there is at least one point where a butterfly flapping its wings sufficiently affects seemingly nonlocal global weather. Presumably it's easier to prevent formation of vortices far before visible formation. A "cancel vortices" sim table might be more useful than the average CFD simulation.