Coal, a question for the scientist. Is it possible for the Chinese to manipulate a hurricane such as Charley?
Not sure what you mean by manipulate. If you mean create a Hurricane somehow I doubt it. I think mother nature is quite a bit bigger than we are still. LOL! A few years back someone published some papers indicating that global warming was caused by increased volcanic activity. Active volcanoes produce massive amounts of co2. A very prominent geophysicist I know said he and many of his colleagues thought the work was sound but more work needed to be done. The government stopped funding such grants which I found most interesting. I would think the U.S. government would want a scapegoat for global warming.
If you mean change the direction of a hurricane or increase its intensity, I dunno. I dont know enough about the physics of a hurricane. If a hurricane is a relatively balanced thing like a spinning top I would imagine you might be able to do it by heating either air or water near the hurricane. Seems to me the results would be unpredictable for all the energy it would take to do such a thing so close to the U.S. Then again you can make it rain in the desert by simply painting a large area of rocks black. It heats up the air and makes the air rise and when it cools from rising it can squeeze a bit of rain out of pretty dry air. So who knows maybe they found some spray paint that works on water LOL!
Damns and nuclear power plants are certainly a danger. Imagine if Hoover damn broke. Some people seem to belive that some of the Earth quakes in Turkey a few years back were set off by bombs deep in the earth on a fault line. I think a big enough bomb could do that but it leaves seismic evidence. One of the interesting things about the Oklahoma City bombing was that the local university measured two blasts split seconds apart. In California I believe they have multiple Nuclear reactors built right on fault lines. I believe in the San Francisco Bay area there is one built right on top of the loma prieta fault line. However much easier nuclear targets exist. I cannot recall the name off the top of my head but a nuclear power plant very close to D.C. is easy to break into. If I remember correctly AFTER 9/11 some anti nuke activists from a nearby colledge crawled under the fence and made it to the cooling towers. D,C, would definitely be in the
fallout range. I believe it was a 45 minute drive from D.C.
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