Hurricane Katrina killed over 1000 people and cost our government billions. A few years before that happened, I drew for my cable TV program something I call a pumper vessel.
A pumper will use compressed nitrogen and oxygen out of the air to chill warm ocean water that will be sucked up into the vessel. The chilled water will be fed into the tropical storm to weaken it. This was suggested years ago. My pumpers would be the size of oil tankers that will possibly be nuclear-powered.
Each vessel would cost over $1 billion and could chill over a million gallons of water every minute. When you have a fleet of maybe 20 pumpers attacking tropical storms, they could go out toward Africa where the storms form and start pumping the chilled water into the storms.
Let's say the hurricane season has been predicted to be especially bad. With a fleet of pumpers able to handle the storms, the season shouldn't pose such a problem. Since hurricanes take so long to form, the fleet could follow a storm for days until it is destroyed.
If we had had a fleet of pumpers the year Katrina hit New Orleans, the vessels would have gone out into the ocean and prevented it from forming. Rain would have been the result because if all the moisture weren't allowed to evaporate, there would be droughts.
A smaller version of the pumper would be a device I call a wasp. It would be a flying tornado buster that would be the size of a door. It along with maybe 100 or more wasps would be launched into the air to attack tornado clouds. By using flash freezing with compressed nitrogen and oxygen, a swarm of wasps could cause a cloud to freeze.
In my book THE MADHOUSE PROJECTS a team of researchers in Indiana followed the Weather Channel to determine where tornadoes were coming through the area. They sent up a swarm of wasps and did such a good job of freezing the cloud they were sent into that it formed a spike of ice that collapsed onto crops, fences, and the roads.
Some devices called bees would boil the clouds out of existence. They would be the same size as wasps and would use plasma to heat up the tornado cloud. In my book, the cloud that the swarm was sent up into evaporated away.
Both the bees and wasps might cost as much as a cheap used car, if that little. A swarm may cost less than a pumper costs to build. But they would be busy longer since tornadoes occur for months longer than the hurricane season is.
If pumpers, bees, and wasps become a reality in the future, billions of dollars in storm damage could be saved and the cost of the devices would be more than made up for in savings. The National Weather Control Service may come into existence in the future to manage the weather.
The old saying everyone talks about the weather but no one does anything about it will be an old statement that has no meaning once we have bees, wasps, and pumpers.
