[B]Microsoft’s Bill Gates, one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution, has now set out on a new venture, to fight hurricanes.
Bill Gates wants to control the strength of hurricanes.[/B]
better yet… tow a "few hundred " icebergs into the GoM to chill off the hurricanes!!
[quote=weathernsm;15809][B]Microsoft’s Bill Gates, one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution, has now set out on a new venture, to fight hurricanes.
Bill Gates wants to control the strength of hurricanes.[/B]
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Lofl…
No matter what you think of the idea,this smells of money!
Sounds like work will be picking up in the GOM!
“hundreds of barges used to cool the water”… and just think when these break loose and ram the coast, drill rigs, ships, lost at sea!
I like the iceberg towing idea better 
JOBS!! operating, manning, moving the barges. Maybe even a special “endorsement” in your MMC, Officer-in-charge of MicroSoft Hurricane Snuffer.
Maybe get the Oil Companies to back-fit a device on the rigs to do the upwelling of chilly water.
(I can’t believe I even bothered commenting; it’s a slow day)
I suspect it would take quite a large number of barges and who wants to volunteer to tow these things towards an on-coming major hurricane anyway? Imagine the lawyers that would get involved if a storm veered off cource after being cooled off and hit another area nearby.
Is anyone else bothered by the fact that one minute these people are worrying about man-induced climate change and the next minute they are proposing changing weather patterns?
I’m pretty sure that there would be unintended (negative) consequences to mitigating the strength of hurricanes!
Here’s a new one… A japanese company is developing a fleet of submarines to do the same for typhoons in the Western Pacific. Cool the surface temp = weaken storms.