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We're StormTamers.US. Our goal is to significantly reduce death and destruction from all severe storms wherever they occur; over land or the ocean. Including the most severe storms of all: hurricanes and tornadoes!
Researching and chasing storms to increase our understanding of storm formation, increasing forecast accuracy and warning time IS NOT our goal! We have developed plans to disrupt storm formation before the storm becomes fully formed and becomes unstoppable by any method. By interfering with any storm's formation we will have effectively stopped its creation! Thereby preventing all death and destruction.
All storms are created by incoming airflows that build the storm and maintain its strength. Once formed the storm could last just minutes or many hours, days and even weeks.
We intend on artificially interfering with this airflow to prevent storms forming into self-sustaining dangerous levels. As the airflow supporting each storm type differs, the application of our plan will necessarily adapt for the current storm type and local terrain to most effectively kill the storm's developing "engine".
"No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered." -- Winston Churchill
The terrain greatly influences the airflow on land based storms. The mostly flat terrain in the Central US, known as Tornado Alley, provides ideal conditions for airflows that create tornadoes and maintains their momentum. Hilly and mountainous areas, on the other hand, rarely have tornadoes.
How will we accomplish that? We'll use airplanes to provide airflow interference and disruption. Airplanes in flight generate vortices off the wings, wing tips and behind the plane due to the airplane's configuration. These vortices induce swirling in the air currents behind the airplane. This swirling will change the direction of the air from straight line storm forming currents into a chaotic mixture unable to form strengthening air channels that create storms.
Will that provide enough disruption? Well, FAA regulations require time delays between departing aircraft to provide enough separation for the vortices generated by the previously departing aircraft to dissipate to ensure there will be calm air for the next departing aircraft. As the aircraft increase in size, the larger and longer lasting the vortices become. Small airplanes are severely impacted by vortices but even larger aircraft are effected. Here's a link (1st minute only) to a video showing an Airbus A380, one of the largest aircraft in existence, taking off after a leading A380 has just taken off. This large aircraft gets tossed around like a leaf in a storm!
"I'm looking for a lot of people who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done." -- Henry Ford
Obviously we won't use A380s to provide storm busting vortices. So how will we? By using multiple smaller aircraft flying together to provide the desired disruption to the incoming airflows that create storms. Multiple aircraft flying in formation, either as a group or one after the other, at different altitudes, speeds and orientation relative to the airflows will provide sufficient disruption for each storm type.
We intend to create the 'butterfly effect' which states that small initial changes could produce widely varying end results.
Thus, our idea does not require any breakthrough technologies before implementing. We will apply procedures before storms becomes unmanageable, in a unique manner depending upon the storm type, to reduce the storm's intensity or even eliminate the storm altogether.
Initially we'll use multiple, piloted airplanes working as a team to provide the desired disruption to the incoming airflows. As our coverage area expands it will be more economical and timely to have unpiloted airplane swarms operating out of multiple airfields. The technology currently exists to perform these tasks.
"All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem." -- Robert H. Schuller
Airplane Specifications:
- Propeller driven
- Engine: Gas or Electric powered
- Retractable landing gear
- 250 to 300 Miles Per Hour
- Able to withstand +3.8 G, -1.5 G forces
- Range greater than 1,500 miles
- Single seater, pilot operated (initially)
- On-board dual-polarization weather radar
- Whole-Plane parachute system
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"Innovation is the ability to see change as an opportunity - not a threat." -- Steve Jobs
Inspiration
Growing up in Ohio, I observed many dust devils form over freshly plowed and disced fields on sunny days. Dust devils are dust filled vortices created by strong surface heating. These vortices are less intense and smaller than tornados. They range in size from less than six feet tall to as large as barns and trees. Some lasted only seconds while others lasted over five minutes. As they moved over the fields these vortices would eventually lose their heat source and/or accompanying air flows and gradually fall apart. Occasionally though, they would instantly fall apart when they ran into a large tree or building.
I wondered if we could "cause" the vortices' demise somehow.
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." -- Albert Einstein
Background / Vision
All storm types: normal and heavy rain, high winds, hail, lightning and tornados are predominately caused by the collision of two weather fronts; one warm, the other cold. The temperature differences and velocity of the fronts are major factors on the type of storm produced and its severity.
If we could exert some influence over those factors could we diminish storms enough to make a difference in their existence?
Large whirlwinds spin up at the beach, run into a multi-story hotel building and poof! No more whirlwind.
As whirlwinds become larger it becomes very difficult to put a multi-story building right in front of it!!! We need a different approach to accomplish that effect.
How about actively disrupting a storm's incoming air flows that build and maintain a storm with airplanes?
It may require several different strategies. Flying close to the potential storm base could 'mix up' the incoming air flows to cut off or disrupt the 'engine' that creates and builds storm vortexes. Flying through at different altitudes, speeds and angles can cause enough disruption to cut off the rising airflows which would kill the 'engine'. The potential storm size would determine how many aircraft would be required to effectively disrupt the storm's formation.
Got a bigger storm? Use more airplanes!!!
"Impossible only means that you haven’t found the solution yet." -- Anonymous
The Plan
We will bring together appropriate airplanes for the intended purpose/mission. Prepare those airplanes for the rugged flying conditions we expect to encounter in each storm type.
We'll start our testing on waterspouts for several reasons. They occur frequently off the west coast of Florida in a known, concentrated area. Since waterspouts form over the ocean there will be minimal terrain variance and very limited debris contained within and around the waterspout. We'll secure airport locations close to or within the chosen testing area to minimize flight times.
We'll assemble and train flight and maintenance teams for the mission. For each storm type we'll plan each test flight taking into account the time of day, altitude and expected storm intensity.
"Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try." -- Jack Canfield, Author, Chicken Soup for the Soul books.
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