[injin]

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 '

[Halgr]

Splendid Idea....now to talk the President into trying it....

Cause thats the only way it will happen

[Rippin]

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

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Yep, it will reorganize quickly if it takes just a sudden shock. But at least you are thinking about it. Someone needs to invent the hurricane dissolver.

[COEXERJ145]

Even a high yield nuclear weapon wouldn't do much to stop a hurricane. Storms like Rita generate more energy every minute than the largest nuclear device ever detonated (50 Megatons).

[metmom]

Actually the eye walls do disintigrate and reform in the hurricanes life. There have been several hurricanes recently that almost completely broke apart and reformed. I believe Ivan was one of them.