That is actually what I was thinking. I posted some info about previous attempts to do this on one of the hurricane threads. I'll see if I can come up with it.
What he is attempting, does make sense.
I think this fellow may be a nut - but in theory - when we do gain the capability of shaping weather or modifying the environment in ways which are favorable to human habitation and safety - you are really going to have a nice train wreck among and between environmentalists who don't want even benign modification of the natural world.