Will we be able to suppress hurricanes someday?

Question

or avoid them, slow them, etc.
We can (somewhat) predict them, see them coming, see them destroying and then weep, but will our technology be able to suppress or control climate to this extent?? Or does it already?

Answer 1

someday someone will figure it out..

Answer 2

I do not believe that we will ever have the power to control hurricanes, earthquakes or any other natural disaster. These are all part of living on this planet there will always be risks in life the best we can do is as you said predict them and try to get out of the way. The problem I see with humans ever being able to control weather is we are an inherently violent species and someone would be trying to use that technology as a weapon.

Answer 3

Not possible.Developing hurricanes gather energy through contact with warm ocean water. The air over this warm water surface, along with the evaporated water vapour rises and condenses releasing the latent heat of condensation which gives the required energy.
Thus the addition of moisture by evaporation from the sea surface powers them like giant heat engine.
We know that energy can only be converted and not destroyed.By some means if you try to suppress this energy , it wil appear in some other place in some other form which may be more disastrous.Even a slight controlling effect will have an undesirable effect.

Answer 4

Actually, we tried for 2 decades to do it by dropping silver iodide into the rainbands of the storms--Project Stormfury. Seeding with silver iodide is the same technique used to try to produce rain during droughts (as far as I know that is also unsuccessful). By seeding the rainbands, it's thought that they would grow at the expense of the eyewall, weakening the inner core winds. It doesn't work. Below is a reference from a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) site as well as an article about Project Stormfury. My guess is that ultimately they'll find some trick to reduce the intensity--probably not destroy them altogether.

Answer 5

I think it may be possible to cool the surface temperature of the water out in front of a hurricane, but alot of people are too worried about us hurting marine life or its ecosystem yet look at what happens when a strong one hits land. Some say the costs of such a project are too high but look at how much damage they cause.....

Answer 6

They are always considering technology to do just that. In fact one design uses thousands of floating wave driven pumps to bring cool water from the ocean depths to the surface in hopes of lessening the strength of the hurricane by cooling the surrounding air.

Answer 7

Corey and Trevor will probably try to stop a hurricane, I doubt their chances.