A New Approach to Hurricane ReductionAn

An entirely unique method might be effective in either stopping hurricanes from first forming or reducing their power once they exist, or both. A method based on the Physics principle of Resonance, and specifically a second order Quadrupole Resonance seems certainly worth investigating! The concept is very similar to using a constant pitch musical note to induce internal natural vibrations in a wineglass WHERE THE WINEGLASS THEN SPONTANEOUSLY SHATTERS!
The significant factors here are that the musical note is provided from an external, distant location, and that it has nowhere near enough acoustic power to actually shatter the structure of a glass.
That parlor trick only works with a wineglass if the glass is "fine enough" to have well defined internal resonant frequencies, where an external "forcing" vibration can cause an effect often referred to as a magnification factor, in causing a consequence far in excess of the causative force being provided.
It has long been my belief that the circulations of hurricanes contain pure enough resonant frequencies to take advantage of this sort of approach. One is obviously the rotation rate of a particular portion of the hurricane, but there appear to be smaller (and therefore faster) resonant structures inside each hurricane.
It has long been known that once a hurricane goes over land, its strength rapidly degrades and also that a lot of tornadoes are reported. No one seems to have ever connected these two facts, but I believe they are intimately related. Each tornado that spawns off of a hurricane immediately carries away a good deal of the rotational energy of the hurricane (as kinetic energy of rotation of the spawned tornadoes), which then rapidly locally dissipates as the tornado disperses. Hurricanes over land dissipate remarkably rapidly, and simple friction with the ground cannot explain the massive reduction in kinetic energy, while the spawning of multiple tornadoes seems to provide such an explanation. It seems relatively obvious to me that this specific process is a primary one in why hurricanes can lose so much of their strength so very quickly after moving over land. Otherwise, the hurricane should have retained much of its massive kinetic energy for a far longer period of time. Any analysis of the frictional losses with the land surface show that the energy degradation should be far slower than actually occurs. I believe this spawning of multiple tornadoes is critically important in the ending of a hurricane.
I see it as a valuable study to do an energy accounting analysis to determine the real-time energy content of a hurricane as it moves over land, and also the energy content of the multiple tornadoes that appear at the fringes of the dissipating hurricane. I believe it will be found that this explains the Integral diminution of a hurricane over land.
I believe that this relationship is a potential key to dealing with hurricanes. Those spawned tornadoes can only begin as a result of some resonant feature of the hurricane. It would then only be necessary to determine WHAT TRIGGERS that multiple tornado formation. I believe that it may be possible to ARTIFICIALLY induce tornadoes to spawn off of a hurricane, earlier in the existence of a hurricane. If this could be done while a hurricane is still far at sea, it may be possible to degrade a hurricane's strength, or perhaps even entirely disrupt its circulation, causing it to simply fade out of existence, far at sea and away from causing damage to people or property.
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-->Beginning around the Spring of 2000, I have spent dozens of early Spring mornings down next to a forty-foot-wide Creek that passes just behind my house. Around then, I first discovered that when certain conditions exist, HUNDREDS of tiny tornadoes or hurricanes develop, often with thirty or more very distinct ones of them simultaneously being obvious on the block-long stretch of Creek that I can easily monitor.
A videotape of one of the objects recorded for 34 seconds in April 2006. You may want to enlarge the video to full screen to best see it, where it is first clearly seen beginning toward the left of the screen.
It is fascinating, and I believe it provides an area of research into the starting of hurricanes and tornadoes that no one else yet seems to have considered. As to hurricanes, warm water is definitely realized as somehow being important, but no one seems to have found out WHY the warmth is important! Also, there are always assumptions that moderately strong winds are involved which somehow turn to become circular motion. These objects above my Creek seem to indicate a totally different explanation, since they ONLY seem to develop when there is dead calm winds!
The conditions seen in my research seem to be these:
(1) DEAD CALM air. If there is even a noticeable wind, these things never seem to appear. Sunrise is an excellent time, as winds tend to be most calm then, as nightly air convection circulations begin to reverse into their daytime convection circulations.
(2) Water is calm and smooth, but flowing. When the water flow has been greater than around 4 ft/sec, I have never seen them. If the surface of the water shows any turbulence at all, anything other than nearly glass smooth surface, the helixes seem to not occur.
(3) Water temperature needs to be at least 10° Fahrenheit warmer than the air. I do not know if this is important in the formation of the objects, but that temperature difference (and high humidity) tends to cause water vapor rising from the warm water surface to condense in the colder air, which makes the objects visible to me.
(4) Bright sunlight coming in from a very low angle over the opposite side of the Creek, where these objects are therefore backlit.
I am definitely not a professional cameraman, and the movies I have made of these objects do not really show how starkly obvious they are to the eyes!
There are several observations I have made regarding watching many thousands of these objects, in addition to the conditional issues mentioned above.
Some only last for a few seconds or so, but many of the larger ones are quite persistent, where I can watch specific ones for at least a minute and occasionally for more than two minutes. The videotape here shows one that is distinct for about 34 seconds.
They seem to consistently move, in the same direction the water is flowing, and generally at around 1/3 or 1/2 the velocity of the water. It is certain that there is NO wind causing them to move! But they all move in essentially the same direction the water is flowing, an interesting situation! The one in this video passed me at about a distance of 30 feet and moved approximately 60 feet in those 34 seconds, around 2 feet per second.
The larger ones are generally between 3 and 6 feet in height, and 2 to 3 inches in diameter. Occasional objects have been more than 15 or 20 feet tall, but even then they are still only 2 to 3 inches in diameter. Those seem to be more rare but they are very impressive!
Extremely few of them are actually straight. Nearly all have a wiggly shape, although that specific shape is persistent. In the case of the one in this video, slightly above the middle of the screen is a wiggle to the left, which persists throughout the 34 seconds of this scene and for around ten more seconds afterward until it disappeared from view due to losing backlighting.
Even while a few large and persistent objects nearly always obvious, there are always hundreds or thousands of very brief tiny objects appear and disappear.
The images seem to blink on and off, but that is mostly due to the many trees on the opposite side of the Creek blocking the sunlight's backlighting of the objects. I also suspect that if I used some sort of camera filter, the impressive visual appearance might be far better seen in the videos.
There seems little doubt to me that this environment can easily be duplicated in a laboratory setting. A flow of somewhat warmed water of around 2 to 3 ft/sec, where the water is smooth and not disturbed, in a room where the air is at least 10°F or 12°F cooler than the water temperature (and suitable humidity levels) should duplicate the situation. A spotlight or floodlight could backlight the objects to be able to watch them reliably. Possibly some camera filters may be appropriate.
The conditions present when this videotape was made were:
Date: April 9, 2006Time: 7:20am to 8:00am local (CDT) timeAir temperature: 34.6°FWater temperature: 46.4°FWater speed: ~4 feet/secondAirspeed: Nil, dead calm (confirmed on TV news weather)Outdoor relative humidity: 78% (per TV news weather)

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