A junior engineer would call BS ... you cant put enough energy into an antenna to ionize the atmosphere.
The Doppler radar towers put in a couple of decades ago have ten times the power going to them required for weather forecasting.
So instead of a 1kw radar you have a 10kw radar ... totally irrelevant from a power perspective ... radar doesn't work like that
The order of magnitude of power is for weather control.
Nope, its just to track storms at a farther distance from the tower. To see twice as far, you would need 16x the power.
“Nope, its just to track storms at a farther distance from the tower. To see twice as far, you would need 16x the power”
I agree, plus you want extra power to penetrate the storm to get a more accurate return. With less power, you look at the front of the storm and conclude that it is X miles wide, when in truth, the storm might be masking more weather behind it and the storm is much bigger.
“A junior engineer would call BS ... you cant put enough energy into an antenna to ionize the atmosphere.”
Not just energy. Frequency.
There ya go throwing cold water on a perfectly fun fantasy thread by bringing actual math and science into it.
Next thing ya know you will bring up stuff like dB’s, reflectivity, and clutter. ;-)
Do you know if Tractor Beams can pull a plow?
Now we know why the Northern Lights are creeping southward. /s