About el Nino, and the Possibility of Weather Control
El Nino is believed to involve two currents both flowing to meet at the equator, then West; the N current to the South is the Panama current, the S to N current is the Peru, or Humboldt current. Changes here seem to often control the weather worldwide. This seems logical because a large ocean like the Pacific is a vast heat sink. The water is considered like an incompressible solid by physicists, this is why your water pipes squeak sometimes. Large changes in ocean flow move huge amounts of heat, like a sort of high speed Continental drift, as far as the heat goes. The pacific is special because it has so much heat stored and it can create larger changes in weather. The Pacific is extreme depth off the W of SA and the Peru current rises up carrying lots of nutrients for life, more abundant than any where else in the world (the rain forest has the most species followed by Australia's Great Barrier Reef; Hawaii has the most birds, even so for numbers of fish, algae, and so on, the Peru current has most.). About once in 10 years the Panama current with warm water moves S to N Chile and a worldwide change in weather. Usually Chile is quite dry but when the moisture reaches the land, this causes lots of floods (not in lots of realtors if they sell ocean views in Ohio!) with the sudden change from hot and dry to to cool and moist multiplying up the change.
Off the West coast of SA is where all forces, N and S and the E and W seem to balance. While the water and wind both move slowly W at the equator, the water of the Panama and Peru currents also are moving against the W coast of SA and the US, that is, there is an E pressure that holds them to the coast, obviously there is a force holding them to the coast, pulling the wheel of the currents involves a force to the E or they would move East also, and the force is large because of the heat stored of the pacific.
If we think of the Panama and Humboldt current as a balance of forces, this also may multiply up the change. So it's possible relatively small changes may multiply up to control larger weather worldwide.
Bill Gates is hoping to develop a method of control of triumphant tropical storms by using coolling ships to hope to change the heat flow, after all in WW II there were two allied ships used just to make ice cream, and 50 or so fizz plants in Oceania. Awesome storms they don't just give numbers to here like in the E; here we name them names in the W...
They are heat bubbles that rise from S to N, cooling the tropics about 30 degrees and cleansing them (a clean name!) with each storm. Changes in heat may thus be used to possibly control the path of the storms.
Other patents than Microsoft involve using cooling jets of water from a ship moved to inside the eye to try to side steer the storm. If it's balanced by strong forces perhaps just small changes will help steer the storm. As I say on my page about hurricane control we might use dust we might use dust to change hurricanes or even icebergs since both may change the path to control them better.
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I think el ninos perhaps might be restored by cooling ships to cut off the S of the Panama current, large fans on the ships might also be used to control the air currents involved. It's also possible that also eg. in times of drought with el ninos or la ninas might be achieved by using more heat to move the Panama current S. Adding dust or even ice (no moist not dry ice!) from Antarctica might also be of worth here. El ninos seem natural compared to earlier weather some us remember in the old wave 20th century, I believe perhaps this is caused by increased solar heat (the sunspots have been at an all time high) and more dust, not greenhouse gasses. If global warming is alone the cause, why are we so often so cold in winter? More dust from agriculture could often carry 'cooler heat' even if the overall temperature is rising to power the more unpredictable changes in weather as I say here.
About global warming, el ninos may only be powered by changes in overall heat, so if the sun cools eventually as usually it has, el ninos being 'unnatural' may stop. If the Panama and Humboldt currents are once more in balance I think we might then be able to more gradually control el nino by gradually changing the balance of these events with our machines, control of world weather with much smaller changes because the changes on both sides might not be so extreme.
A related idea that has been offered up may be to use large fins in arrays in hopes of moving the jet stream N say the W US in winter where the forces are most in balance about halfway N and halfway S, thus moving heat to the N for warm winters. The jet stream might also be stabilized by heating beams like masers to make the heat rise or stay that far N. If the jet stream rises in one area it tends to sink elsewhere, so the average is mostly constant. If it rises over land so it's believed we might hope to make it sink over water, say the Atlantic and Pacific, or even stabilize it with machines so it's sort of a larger standing wave in winter or summer; winter more N over the land more by machines, summer up over the oceans +S over land in hopes of good weather.
It's been seen that the jet stream stream has 600x the power now available, so machines are being built that take off like a helicopter, and then find the wind for power up there via the helicopters at altitude with tethers or beams sending the power our way and so on so.
Large fins to the W of the US where the US starts to rise over land via heat where the wave is at half the latitude (not humidity 100% and sunshine if it's what put our zone on the weather map!) and thus where the forces were most in balance might be where to get the most out of the fins. Fins would no doubt be moved N or S as the seasons change, so perhaps heating or cooling beams may be best.
Even so, fins being a sort of momentum transfer system might have value still, just as mechanical computers with small levers may be extreme if faster and more efficient than other computers, and momentum transfer may make travel to mars in just a few weeks possible by throwing a weight up to the ship and the ship then throws it in return much boosting speed.
Actually hitching a ride on a comet to go to mars much faster and cheaper as some have proposed is a form of momentum transfer.
Fins and fans would use convection and conduction not just radiation to move the jets, though heating methods on board the arrays powered by fans might be of higher efficiency yet, as with el nino and control of tropical storms, the method here is to try to use a small change by our machines to try to control a larger system, in hopes of that weather control is not always unfeasable because of the huge size of other machines needed. The idea is that some of the time the systems are in enough balance, so we might be able to change the flow here in hopes of more control. My brother an agriculture pro like Sir issac's father wanted him to be before he won the fight at 16 that motivated him in high school, says, great warmer cozy winters, the canadians may celebrate.
You may ask what about all the global warming? If this is caused by the sun mostly, it may be natural mostly. As I say on my general weather control page, Best Seller link list at left of page, the ecology is adapting to the global warming well. Birds have by evolution ways already to adapt to global warming, like the 64 million years of mild weather since the time of the dinosaurs. The interglacial ages had lots of global warming without problems like methane overheating some fear, they were much warmer than now. The last glacial age was just 75,000 years, not 100,000 years or more, this may tell us we are just at the end of the glacial age and entering a much more common time like most of the cenozoic, recent time since the demise of the dinosaurs. The shorter age may mean the sun is warming as I say on my main Weather Control Site by way of changes in Jupiter's magnetic field, caused in turn by the fizzelling away of the Great Red Spot.