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thermobarics are amazingly powerful , work on pressure principles and are not radioactive . hurricanes are all about pressure , we should at least experiment .

There are two ways to measure the energy released in a hurricane. The first looks at the total amount of energy released by the condensation of water droplets, while the second delves into the amount of kinetic energy generated to maintain the strong swirling winds of the hurricane.

Using the first method, the energy therein is equivalent to 200 times the world-wide electrical generating capacity.

And using the second it is equivalent to half the world-wide electrical generating capacity.

In essence thermobaric bombs would not even register within the hurricane. As for nuclear weaponry the result would merely be a hurricane that has radioactive suspension in it. These things are beasts! Literally. The energy within them is mind boggling.

You don't have to attack the entire hurricane. That is the point. You don't have to put power against power, you just have to disorganize the eyewall. If you have a 25 mile eyewall the circumference is 78.5 miles. If a BLU-82 puts out a 6 mile shock wave, 7 of them detonating simultaneously near the eyewall would have overlapping effects. all you need to overcome is a pressure gradient of about 1.5 psi. Anybody who tells you that you cannot disrupt the eyewall with a pattern of 15,000 pounder thermobaric explosions is an idiot. There is a good way to settle the dispute---try it. Cost of a BLU-82 is $27,000. Cost of not trying it is what? Maybe $100 billion dollars per city and a thousand lives at a time. These guys are going to look pretty bad if somebody decides to try this sometime in the future and find out it works. By then we will have lost New Orleans, Houston, Miami, etc.

Does anyone dispute that when the eyewall disintegrates the hurricane falls apart?

Somebody should suggest to the nay sayers that you don't have to blow a hurricane apart to have a beneficial effect on it. Suppose you hit it ten miles off shore, and it takes the winds down to 90 mph instead of 150 mph. Before there can be a reorganization it will be over land. Big difference. Isn't it worth trying. This whole thing kind of reminds me of the Space Shuttle. Don't bother to try and fix the problem. Let everybody die first, then we'll talk about what went wrong later.

'this from a gentleman who won the USAF Geller top science officer award for two yrs running '