SA Article on Possibility of using SPSs to Control Hurricanes

I read the article from the a SA at a News Stand. The link is the
electronic version.

Bert

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> Your link is a pay for access link which I am not willing to log
into
> for one article.
> This is from a goggle search:
> http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/8.01/weather.html?
pg=1&topic=&topic_set=
> This is a presentation from somebody who has actually tried to model
> control of a hurricane with a SPS.
>
http://www.niac.usra.edu/files/library/fellows_mtg/nov03_mtg/pdf/715Ho
ffman.pdf
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> In the presentation the attempt is not to eliminate the hurricane
but
> to minimize its impact.
>
> In a way it is too bad that New Orleans didn't get wiped out in this
> last hurricane. That would have raised enough screaming to have
made
> the insurance companies look for ways to minimize losses. Of course
> the easy way is to forbid anybody living within a hundred miles of
the
> coast. The current insurance scheme boggles my mind. The insurance
> companies drop insurance on anything they think is high risk or
raise
> the rates so much that they are unaffordable and then the government
> comes in as the insurer of last resort. There are some areas of the
> country where it should be that you build at your own risk and when
> you get blown away or flooded it is your own problem. I guess I
spent
> too much time in Houston watching developments get flooded out year
> after year and government insurance money being used for
redevelopment
> each time.
>
> If the insurance companies decided that they wanted to try this, it
> would certainly give SPSs a solid no nonsense backer. Much better
> than the US government trying to do it. Does anybody know a high
> level insurance exec? It would be interesting to know what level of
> pain they would need before they considered the idea of weather
> modification by SPS.
>
> Note: There are some technical issues with the idea. The main one
> being that there would have to be two sets of transmitters. But
> nothing that couldn't be worked out.
>
> Mitchell James
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> | October's Scientific American includes an article on the possibly
> | of controlling hurricanes. A major part of the approach uses
> | microwave beam from space power satellites to heat a portion of
the