Can giant walls protect the USA from tornadoes
The hurricane one here
Forget the Great Wall of China. How about the Great Wall of ... Kansas?
One scientist thinks we can protect parts of the central USA from ferocious tornadoes by building several gigantic walls across Tornado Alley:
"If we build three east-west great walls in the American Midwest .... one in North Dakota, one along the border between Kansas and Oklahoma to the east, and the third one in south Texas and Louisiana, we will diminish the tornado threats in the Tornado Alley forever," according to physicist Rongjia Tao of Temple University.
The walls would need to be about 1,000 feet high and 150 feet wide, he said. Tao is presenting his research next week at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society in Denver.
Wow what can you say about that.There's thinking outside the box but this has to be a goof.
USA Today actually printed this drivel.Next they will tell me we can build a giant bubble around the whole earth and air condition it to combat global warming.
There is another supposedly scientific story about how wind farms might mitigate hurricanes.
Unless you make the turbines out of unobtainium I think the hurricane would just devastate them.
Alas I'm not some super scarily smart "scientist"studiously studying and coming out with laughable claims and conclusions.I leave that to the ones who will call me an idiot for laughing at their entirely dubious claims.
If that's what passes for science no wonder I'm a denier.That is all.
H/T Drudge on both
The hurricane one here
Forget the Great Wall of China. How about the Great Wall of ... Kansas?
One scientist thinks we can protect parts of the central USA from ferocious tornadoes by building several gigantic walls across Tornado Alley:
"If we build three east-west great walls in the American Midwest .... one in North Dakota, one along the border between Kansas and Oklahoma to the east, and the third one in south Texas and Louisiana, we will diminish the tornado threats in the Tornado Alley forever," according to physicist Rongjia Tao of Temple University.
The walls would need to be about 1,000 feet high and 150 feet wide, he said. Tao is presenting his research next week at the annual meeting of the American Physical Society in Denver.
Wow what can you say about that.There's thinking outside the box but this has to be a goof.
USA Today actually printed this drivel.Next they will tell me we can build a giant bubble around the whole earth and air condition it to combat global warming.
There is another supposedly scientific story about how wind farms might mitigate hurricanes.
Unless you make the turbines out of unobtainium I think the hurricane would just devastate them.
Alas I'm not some super scarily smart "scientist"studiously studying and coming out with laughable claims and conclusions.I leave that to the ones who will call me an idiot for laughing at their entirely dubious claims.
If that's what passes for science no wonder I'm a denier.That is all.
H/T Drudge on both
