Research Projects
The devastation from any category of hurricane, but especially from a Category 3 or above, such as those in recent years, cannot be overestimated.
Despite the advances in technology, Mother Nature has the upper hand when it comes to hurricanes, which intensify, shift course and wreak havoc on coastal areas throughout the world (in the Pacific they are called Typhoons).
Building thunderstorms are the basis for the development of hurricanes. In the Northern Hemisphere, most of these thunderstorms originate off the coast of Africa. Upon the storm leaving the coast of Africa and moving Eastward over the Atlantic Ocean they can become fierce unpredictable hurricanes. Depending on atmospheric conditions storms can build to strengths that are dangerously destructive and life threatening.
GelTech Solutions, Inc. and their team of experts have developed a proprietary blend of formulated polymers that have undergone intense laboratory study and actual testing. They believe that if they deliver their polymer blend via into the outer band of a hurricane working their way into the eye, cutting a pie shape piece out of the storm, it is theorized that this should cause the winds and energy of the storm to turn in on itself and lessen the storm’s strength. The polymers blend will be delivered into storms via jet aircraft with specialized disbursement systems.
Testing in the field, GelTech Solutions used a formulated polymer and patented process (U.S. Patent # 6,315,213) to disperse the polymer via jet plane into a building thunderstorm. As a result, verified by local media weather stations and the Palm Beach International Airport traffic control, the storm disappeared off the radar screen.
This same research, which GelTech Solutions calls the “Hurricane Suppression Project” has the potential to weaken a hurricane by increasing friction and lowering the heat that feeds the strength of the hurricane. Today’s technologies are available to not only bring the formulated polymer into the bands of the hurricane, taking a “wedge” out of its spiraling winds, and thereby reducing its intensity, but also to evaluate and observe this exciting innovation at work.
This project would do what researchers have always desired to do—dampen down the power of a hurricane so its effects would be less severe, the winds would cause less damage and the potential for flood waters would be lowered.
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