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A New Tool in the Fight Against Hurricanes: Wind Farms?
Tens of thousands of wind turbines could dampen monster hurricanes into plain old bad storms, claim researchers.
Over the years, weather eggheads have dreamed up an arsenal of unusual weapons to fight hurricanes – seeding clouds to weaken their momentum, pumping cold ocean water to the surface to starve them of energy. The U.S. government has even taken the time to explain why it's "not a good idea" to blow up hurricanes with nuclear bombs (turns out there are multiple reasons!).
But here's one more possible way to attack the next Katrina: How about we wall off parts of the coastline with wind farms, which would then drain energy from these monster storm systems as they move through miles of spinning blades?