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Japan's Conspiracy (21-1)
Japan's Conspiracy (21-1)
=== Typhoon and Hurricane ===
I read articles on the site of WIKIPEDIA about hurricanes (See Note 1).
I think that Americans are too honest in a sense. I understand they are honest just because they are born and brought up honest. Most of them live honest.
On the other hand, unfortunately, there is a variety of countries and regions in the world.
Some people are born and brought up dishonest. They mostly live dishonest. Some of them are even hypocrites by nature.
I think that critical tests, such as disaster prevention tests, should be conducted behind closed doors. These tests can be easy targets of sabotage for terrorists.
For example, if a farmer has developed new variety of strawberry and tries to show the strawberry to his customers about the process of growth in the field, malicious rival farmers could hamper the growth of the strawberry by a variety of means including scattering pollutants and pests even at night. Economically speaking, sabotage is cheaper than fair competition.
In these cases, the honest farmers are usually criticized by the third party for the failure.
It's totally unfortunate.
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Tropical cyclone
Artificial dissipation
In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States government attempted to weaken hurricanes through Project Stormfury by seeding selected storms with silver iodide. It was thought that the seeding would cause supercooled water in the outer rainbands to freeze, causing the inner eyewall to collapse and thus reducing the winds. The winds of Hurricane Debbie?a hurricane seeded in Project Stormfury?dropped as much as 30%, but Debby regained its strength after each of two seeding forays. In an earlier episode in 1947, disaster struck when a hurricane east of Jacksonville, Florida promptly changed its course after being seeded, and smashed into Savannah, Georgia. Because there was so much uncertainty about the behavior of these storms, the federal government would not approve seeding operations unless the hurricane had a less than 10% chance of making landfall within 48 hours, greatly reducing the number of possible test storms. The project was dropped after it was discovered that eyewall replacement cycles occur naturally in strong hurricanes, casting doubt on the result of the earlier attempts. Today, it is known that silver iodide seeding is not likely to have an effect because the amount of supercooled water in the rainbands of a tropical cyclone is too low.
Other approaches have been suggested over time, including cooling the water under a tropical cyclone by towing icebergs into the tropical oceans. Other ideas range from covering the ocean in a substance that inhibits evaporation, dropping large quantities of ice into the eye at very early stages of development (so that the latent heat is absorbed by the ice, instead of being converted to kinetic energy that would feed the positive feedback loop), or blasting the cyclone apart with nuclear weapons. Project Cirrus even involved throwing dry ice on a cyclone. These approaches all suffer from the same flaw: tropical cyclones are simply too large for any of them to be practical.
Tropical cyclone - Wikipedia
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Japan's Conspiracy (21-1)
=== Typhoon and Hurricane ===
I read articles on the site of WIKIPEDIA about hurricanes (See Note 1).
I think that Americans are too honest in a sense. I understand they are honest just because they are born and brought up honest. Most of them live honest.
On the other hand, unfortunately, there is a variety of countries and regions in the world.
Some people are born and brought up dishonest. They mostly live dishonest. Some of them are even hypocrites by nature.
I think that critical tests, such as disaster prevention tests, should be conducted behind closed doors. These tests can be easy targets of sabotage for terrorists.
For example, if a farmer has developed new variety of strawberry and tries to show the strawberry to his customers about the process of growth in the field, malicious rival farmers could hamper the growth of the strawberry by a variety of means including scattering pollutants and pests even at night. Economically speaking, sabotage is cheaper than fair competition.
In these cases, the honest farmers are usually criticized by the third party for the failure.
It's totally unfortunate.
------------ (Note 1) --------------------------------------
Tropical cyclone
Artificial dissipation
In the 1960s and 1970s, the United States government attempted to weaken hurricanes through Project Stormfury by seeding selected storms with silver iodide. It was thought that the seeding would cause supercooled water in the outer rainbands to freeze, causing the inner eyewall to collapse and thus reducing the winds. The winds of Hurricane Debbie?a hurricane seeded in Project Stormfury?dropped as much as 30%, but Debby regained its strength after each of two seeding forays. In an earlier episode in 1947, disaster struck when a hurricane east of Jacksonville, Florida promptly changed its course after being seeded, and smashed into Savannah, Georgia. Because there was so much uncertainty about the behavior of these storms, the federal government would not approve seeding operations unless the hurricane had a less than 10% chance of making landfall within 48 hours, greatly reducing the number of possible test storms. The project was dropped after it was discovered that eyewall replacement cycles occur naturally in strong hurricanes, casting doubt on the result of the earlier attempts. Today, it is known that silver iodide seeding is not likely to have an effect because the amount of supercooled water in the rainbands of a tropical cyclone is too low.
Other approaches have been suggested over time, including cooling the water under a tropical cyclone by towing icebergs into the tropical oceans. Other ideas range from covering the ocean in a substance that inhibits evaporation, dropping large quantities of ice into the eye at very early stages of development (so that the latent heat is absorbed by the ice, instead of being converted to kinetic energy that would feed the positive feedback loop), or blasting the cyclone apart with nuclear weapons. Project Cirrus even involved throwing dry ice on a cyclone. These approaches all suffer from the same flaw: tropical cyclones are simply too large for any of them to be practical.
Tropical cyclone - Wikipedia
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