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On 20 Sep 2005 19:28:13 GMT, Ian Stirling
wrote:
Ice?



Ice wouldn't last long enough and would be too heavy. We would need
something :
1.lighter than water, perhaps hydrophobe enough to slow evaporation
of the surface water underneath.
2.opaque, light-colored, preferably white, to change the surface
albedo as much as possible.
3.bio-degradable after, say 72 hours
4.cheap, 'cause we'd need A LOT OF IT


Combining this with an "albedo attack" from above (darkening the tops
of the circling, white, hurricane clouds with a dark smoke or haze
would warm them from above, thus lessening the funnel action in the
middle, or eye of the storm.

During one experiment the former USSR dumped one whole tanker of oil in the
Pacific in an effort to stop a hurricane. The experiment failed.



USA experimented with silver-iodine dispersing it on a large scale from an
aeroplane. There was no mathematically provable success.



And as with Jello... ok, do you have enough Jello to cover a large piece of
Mexican Gulf? And what happens when that nice thick Jello gets accelerated
to 200 mi/h?? A lot more damage than from water droplets at the same speed.