This seems hare-brained on a number of levels. Firstly, a hurricane involves an absolutely phenomenal amount of energy and area. The typical hurricane is 300 m

This seems hare-brained on a number of levels. Firstly, a hurricane involves an absolutely phenomenal amount of energy and area. The typical hurricane is 300 miles wide, covering an area of 280,000 square miles. Even the core (100 miles wide) is 30,000 square miles. How big are these tubs? How much of that area are you going to cover? How many of these things do you need to do that? The idea goes even further off the rails when they start discussing non-hurricane uses, in two paragraphs saying the tubs "could stir up nutrient-rich sediment on ocean floors to promote plant and animal growth in environmentally-degraded areas" but then also "moving nutrients and other material from the ocean floor to the surface to promote growth of algae to trap carbon as a tool in fighting global warming." Stirring up muck from the bottom is either going to feed fish (unlikely) or promote huge algal blooms (much more likely). But not both -- algal blooms pull oxygen from the water, killing fish. It seems more like a crazy scheme drunken students would come up with at 3am than a real invention.