A'isha
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And, in the most amusing part of the Ventura episode about HAARP, this was darkly implied to be exactly why everyone who went to these open houses never had anything bad or suspicious to say about the project.
HAARP: Storms Across 18 States
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And, in the most amusing part of the Ventura episode about HAARP, this was darkly implied to be exactly why everyone who went to these open houses never had anything bad or suspicious to say about the project.
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INRM - I did some digging for you, and it looks like the magic storm machine theory is DOA.
A ten megaton nuclear weapon every 20 minutes. That's the amount of energy that HAARP needs to pump out in order to cause the effects you claim it is capable of.
If the staggering level of energy required wasn't difficult enough to come up with, your magic radio antenna would have to find some way to deal with waste heat. If your magic HAARP was the most energy efficient device in history and lost an unparalleled 1% of its energy to waste heat, then the waste heat it released would be equivalent to 5 times the Fat Man bromb dropped on Nagasaki every 20 minutes.
Your magic storm-making machine would blow itself up along with 100 square miles of surrounding countryside just from turning it on.
Why don't we try to destroy tropical cyclones by nuking them?
Now for a more rigorous scientific explanation of why this would not be an effective hurricane modification technique. The main difficulty with using explosives to modify hurricanes is the amount of energy required. A fully developed hurricane can release heat energy at a rate of 5 to 20x1013 watts and converts less than 10% of the heat into the mechanical energy of the wind. The heat release is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes. According to the 1993 World Almanac, the entire human race used energy at a rate of 1013 watts in 1990, a rate less than 20% of the power of a hurricane.
Now for a more rigorous scientific explanation of why this would not be an effective hurricane modification technique. The main difficulty with using explosives to modify hurricanes is the amount of energy required. A fully developed hurricane can release heat energy at a rate of 5 to 20x1013 watts and converts less than 10% of the heat into the mechanical energy of the wind. The heat release is equivalent to a 10-megaton nuclear bomb exploding every 20 minutes. According to the 1993 World Almanac, the entire human race used energy at a rate of 1013 watts in 1990, a rate less than 20% of the power of a hurricane.
A ten megaton nuclear weapon every 20 minutes. That's the amount of energy that HAARP needs to pump out in order to cause the effects you claim it is capable of.
If the staggering level of energy required wasn't difficult enough to come up with, your magic radio antenna would have to find some way to deal with waste heat. If your magic HAARP was the most energy efficient device in history and lost an unparalleled 1% of its energy to waste heat, then the waste heat it released would be equivalent to 5 times the Fat Man bromb dropped on Nagasaki every 20 minutes.
Your magic storm-making machine would blow itself up along with 100 square miles of surrounding countryside just from turning it on.
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It's in Alaska, is federal goverment funded and was built back when Ted Stevens was Senator. What do you think it is?
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You guys think you are funny, but the National Weather Service had not only noted that this storm would be Number 2, versus Number 5 (The Edmund Fitzgerald Storm), but had NAMED it (The Great Lakes Cyclone) a day BEFORE it struck. Okay, it's more pathetic than funny, but I fear they have gone all show-biz on us, relating ratings to federal funding.
Have I ever told you of my friend on the Edmund Fitzgerald? No? Won't this time, either.
