How powerful is the typhoon? Can it be "exploded"?

With the arrival of summer, weather changes in both land and ocean areas can be said to be more and more complex. Since 2020, especially the development of typhoons in the northwest Pacific region has attracted everyone's attention. , many people are hotly discussing whether this year's typhoon situation is very serious.

The National Climate Center said that this year’s typhoons are expected to be slightly more frequent and stronger. At this time, we are reminded of another thing, that is, how to prevent the development of typhoons. Typhoons are tropical storms in the ocean area. It can be said that the energy is so huge that even humanity's current high technology is basically vulnerable to it.

And this also shows that the "power of nature" is the craziest thing. It's not that humans can't compete with nature, but because humans simply can't compete with nature, otherwise scientists wouldn't do it again and again. The emphasis is on reducing the earth's climate change so that the impact of tropical storms faced by humans in the future will not be more and stronger. When these strong storms land on the earth, they are even more destructive.

Can humans slow down and weaken storms?

This is not the first time we have raised this issue. In 2019, such a problem also occurred, that is, "exploding storms". So, can this technology be implemented to quickly reduce the development of storms? To reduce the impact on humans?

As early as the 1940s, scientists thought the same way, hoping to "explode storms" to eliminate typhoons (the experiment was conducted on hurricanes, and typhoons and hurricanes are the same).

After it was proposed, the United States decisively implemented the "Bombing Storm" plan. This plan was called "Project Hurricane". According to scientific records, the entire "Bombing Storm" plan lasted for 21 years. , so what happened in the end? Do we have the ability to change the wind speed of typhoon development to alleviate the impact on humans?

The results of this "Hurry Up Plan" are a bit surprising. First, let's talk about the method, which is to heat the air and let the air flow rise to form a new air flow. The new air flow formed through human intervention may Can cause interference to the entire typhoon system.

In 21 years, there have been many implementations of "Project Hurricane". Scientists have implemented a total of more than 15 typhoons (hurricanes), and as a result, 4 of them were Hurricanes struck. On August 18, 1969, the United States implemented the "Surge Plan" for Hurricane Debbie. The maximum wind speed of Debbie dropped from 50 meters/second to 35 meters/second, decelerating by 30%. Plan Cyclone? Really slowed down?

It is true that judging from the first conclusion of the "Hurry Up Project" realized by scientists, mankind has really succeeded. However, this plan has not been implemented. Why is this? Haven't humans already achieved the results of "exploding storms" and "destroying storms"? The main reason is that after scientists implemented this technology, they found that the natural variability of typhoon intensity and the variability of dispersion experiments are comparable in magnitude.

It does slow down hurricanes by 30%, but here comes the problem. Scientists don’t know whether the storm is a response to artificial intervention or a natural reaction. Therefore, they cannot be completely? Certain? This experiment was completely artificial. The impact caused the typhoon to weaken by 30%.

So, no country is implementing this plan anymore. Even scientists still can’t figure out why Hurricane Debbie slowed down by 30%. If it continues to be implemented, not only will the cost be high, , and may also bring negative impacts. In this way, the manual intervention typhoon plan has never appeared again. Therefore, in fact, controlling typhoons cannot be achieved at the current scientific level. It's not that we don't want to do it, but that we really can't do it. There is no technology that can really realize it, so scientists don't dare to try easily.

Typhoons are actually not terrible, and they also have advantages

For typhoons, let’s first talk about the disadvantages. When a typhoon makes landfall, it will affect the landing point and the The following areas bring extremely destructive effects, such as building damage, flooding, etc. At the same time, it has a huge impact on crops and may cause certain economic losses, so this is its biggest drawback.

Needless to say, this water is of great significance in improving the fresh water supply and ecological environment in some areas. At the same time, typhoons will also maintain the ecological environment in other areas of the earth. If there are no typhoons to dissipate heat, surface desertification may become more serious, and the seasonality throughout the year will disappear. At the same time, typhoons not only may bring certain economic losses as we mentioned above, but they can also bring more Effective economic value.

For those who breed along the coast, every time a typhoon appears, some nutrients from the bottom of rivers and seas will be swept up, and the bait will increase, attracting fish to gather near the water surface, and more nutrients will be provided. absorption, then fish production will also increase.

So typhoons have pros and cons, but they are not terrible, as long as everyone takes appropriate defenses.