“The enormity of it, in order to do something effective, we’d have to do something at a scale that humans have never really done before,” said Gabriel Vecchi, a research scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Hurricanes are fueled by warm water, and cooling the waters surrounding a storm would slow a storm’s momentum.  According to patents filed by Bill Gates, many tub-like barges would be placed directly in the path of an oncoming storm. Each barge would have two conduits, each 500 feet long that would suck warm water from the surface down and cold water from the deep up.

Hurricane expert William Gray doubts whether the proposal would work.

“The problem is the storms come up so rapidly,” said Gray, a professor of atmospheric science at Colorado State University. “You only get two to three days warning. It’s very difficult to bring up enough cold water in two to three days to have much effect.”

Given Bill’s ability to crash Windows, I’d say he has a fighting chance.

Can Bill Gates stop hurricanes? Scientists doubt it – CNN.com

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Bill G wants to stop or weaken hurricanes by using a network of barges to pump cold water from 500 feet below up to the surface of the ocean, thereby taking the bite out of their punch.

Patents filed by Bill Gates are “not limited to atmospheric management, weather management, hurricane suppression, hurricane prevention, hurricane intensity modulation, hurricane deflection”.

I wonder what the terms of service is going to look like.

Hurricane-calming technology? Bill Gates has a plan – USATODAY.com.