RE: Possible solution to eliminate hurricanes?
September 10, 2017 at 9:16 am
(This post was last modified: September 10, 2017 at 9:47 am by Anomalocaris.)
(September 10, 2017 at 8:30 am)Gawdzilla Sama Wrote: Temporary "solution". The farms in the Imperial Valley are suffering from salt build-up and won't be usable in a few decades.
Imperial valley is a geological sump. The only way water that goes in can ever leave is by evaporation, leaving behind all the mineral and salt content the water had when it first flowed in. Hence salt build up. Large parts of Mohave desert in CA, almost all of Nevada, parts of Utah, and Arizona are like that also. Hence all the big dry lake beds in these regions gleaming with salt. Irrigation in these regions inexorably killed the soil.
Sahara hosted large rivers that discharged eventually into the Mediterranean within the last 10000 years, before it deserfied. So at least parts of Sahara is well drained. This means water brought in also flushes mineral and salt down stream into the Mediterranean. So salt build up ought not become an insurmountable problem.
(September 10, 2017 at 8:23 am)Fake Messiah Wrote: So all the hurricanes come from the same place, West Africa, and are caused by the clash of hot dry air over Sahara and cool moist air above oceans as well as the hot dry air from Sahara and cooler wetter region in the south
So the solution would be to make Sahara green, wet and cooler. Back at the beginning of XX. century American inventor and engineer Frank Shuman started with greening Sahara by using solar thermal power but then ww1 came and all his stuff was melted to be made into guns. Now it could be still done today but who is going to organize it?
These are screencaps from 2014 "Cosmos" series episode "The World Set Free" of how to green Sahara.
So this solution is in an intenable position. Those who are nominally most concerned about addressing the problem this solution is designed to address would reflexively dismiss this solution as being "Too much human impact".