{"id":510,"date":"2011-08-30T20:23:23","date_gmt":"2011-08-31T02:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anthony.darrouzet-nardi.net\/scienceblog\/?p=510"},"modified":"2011-08-30T20:23:23","modified_gmt":"2011-08-31T02:23:23","slug":"geoengineering-ctd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/?p=510","title":{"rendered":"Geoengineering, ctd."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2007\/10\/riders-on-the-storm\/6177\/2\/?single_page=true\">an article<\/a> in <em>The Atlantic<\/em> on using technological solutions to reduce hurricane intensity:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;researchers would dump their particles out of large cargo planes, some of which can carry 125 tons or more. In Hoffman and Alamaro\u2019s scenario, the planes would disgorge the soot above the hurricane\u2019s eye and the storm would disperse it outward. In the other group\u2019s plan, planes would disperse the salt particles at the storm\u2019s outer edges, to be hoovered up by the storm\u2019s churn and delivered to its heart. In both cases, the immediate impact on the hurricane\u2019s intensity would probably be negligible, but the effect would compound over time as the storm drifted west. All told, it might take a dozen or so flights a day to set in motion the degradation of a big storm.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More evidence that these types of schemes could be on their way sometime in our lifetimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From an article in The Atlantic on using technological solutions to reduce hurricane intensity: &#8230;researchers would dump their particles out of large cargo planes, some of which can carry 125 tons or more. In Hoffman and Alamaro\u2019s scenario, the planes would disgorge the soot above the hurricane\u2019s eye and the storm would disperse it outward. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=510"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=510"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=510"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/scienceblog.darrouzet-nardi.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=510"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}