Tuesday, June 1, 2010

TYPHOONS CAN BE PREVENTED AND DIVERTED!

Yes, prevented from ravaging the Philippines which usually gets about20 typhoons every year. Impossible you may say. Who is this writer gone nuts? When nobody ever proposed with all the meteorologists/scientists worldwide led by NASA?

But wait, I’ll prove to you and I am not joking. I have only 3 units of Agriculture Meteorology when I took my Bachelor of Science in Agriculture at USM (The best university in Mindanao and surely one of the best nationwide) some 50 yeas ago.

And I dare say that typhoons can be diverted! Crazy idea? Wanna bet that my theory is workable?

If we can prevent and/or divert typhoons, that will spell fast economic growth, providing the social typhoon of graft and corruption is also minimized by the incoming administration, if we put to power the right people!

It is a well-established fact that typhoons avoid high pressure areas, right? This has been recently shown by typhoon Pepeng which could not go straight into the China Sea. It came back and poured more rains in Ilocos Norte. There was a high pressure wall at the China Sea due to cool air which made the molecules more dense.

The last typhoon called Lupit following Pepeng could not proceed directly to China Sea because of high pressure area. So it was to curve up north to Taiwan after battering Northern Cagayan.

In physics we learned, that the molecules of air when heated will expand and will consequently be forced up by inrushing more dense, cooler air to replace the vacated air space.

This is simply illustrated by burning. When we burn, we see that the smoke goes up indicating that heated air goes up because it is less dense. There is onrush of air from all around towards the fire, forcing the heated air up. The air that comes in contact with the flames with be heated and so the cycle of molecular expansion, rushing up and replacement by cool air starts. That is how the typhoon starts. The heat comes from hot ocean water.

The above phenomena tell us how a typhoon starts and diverted.

We strongly suggest that PAGASA-DOST propose a joint program of typhoon prevention and diversion in cooperation with Vietnam, Macao, Hongkong, China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea to pilot the concepts of disrupting/prevention of typhoon by massive cloud-seeding to cool the usual area of start of typhoons as well as creating a high pressure wall along the usual path of the storms to divert them up North without landfall into any of the cooperating countries.

ATTENTION: PAGASA-DOST, Senate and House Committee Chair on Climate Change, kindly do the needful. It is highly feasible!