Problem

 Many Atlantic hurricanes start to take shape when thunderstorms along the west coast of Africa drift out over warm ocean waters that are at least 80 degrees Fahrenheit (27 degrees Celsius), where they encounter converging winds from around the equator. Other hurricanes originate from unstable air pockets popping out in the Gulf of Mexico. In order for a hurricane to form, two things must be present: a weather disturbance, such as a thunderstorm, that pulls in warm surface air from all directions and water at the ocean’s surface that is at least 80° Fahrenheit (27° Celsius). Because it is the interaction of warm air and warm seawater that spawns these storms, they form over tropical oceans between about 5 and 20 degrees of latitude. At these latitudes, seawater is hot enough to give the storms strength and the rotation of the Earth makes them spin. The devastating hurricane directly affects fisheries and aquaculture, healthy oceans and ecosystem services, transportation, bioscience, enabling technologies and data analytics, energy (for power plants near shores) and many other categories that are very crucial for survival of all living things on earth. This indicates the level of the pain this project is solving and its impact it will have solving environmental, economic and social aspects in depth and large area coverage.

Solution 

This project is about solving the hurricane crisis of the world by using a new mechanism to break the linkage between the components that are reason for creation of hurricanes. This is done by stabilizing the temperature difference between the warm water and the cold water in the ocean which is one of the main critical components of creation of hurricanes by using a hallow doughnut structure that constantly measures the temperature difference between the warm water and cold water in the ocean and circulate water so that the water act as heat exchanging mechanism between the hot and cold waters. Meaning the hallow doughnut structure is made from the best heat exchange material like copper and have two light weight turbines installed inside of it. The main purpose of the two turbines is to circulate the fluid or water inside the doughnut structure. The circulating water will lose and gain thermal energy when passing the two locations or zones which are the hot water zone and cold water zone stabilizing the heat difference between the two locations. This structure will be made to float on the oceans with half its structure above the ocean level and half structure below the ocean level in z-axis. This will enable the mechanism have optimum heat exchange surface at top level of the hot and cold water which the hurricanes starts to form. Since there are sensors that measure the temperatures in the two zones, the turbine on and off itself to circulate or stop the circulation depending up on the reading of the sensors and the data feed for acceptable temperature difference that safe from starting a hurricane. This is the best practical solution to ever be proposed because it is based on existing technology that completes the research of well known researchers around the world.

 Prior art 

For years, scientists have been exploring ways to solve the hurricane crisis of the world and have come up with many possible solutions but have faced criticism in their method to achieve their target. For example founder of Microsoft Bill Gates and 12 other inventors filed a patent application for water alteration structure applications and methods. The "structures" here are barges that will pump cold water from the ocean's depth and create a wall to block the hurricane. Warm temperatures power hurricanes, and so cooling the water will, in theory, break or lessen the impact of the hurricane. The end outcome of the solution will solve the problem but the main issue for failure of this method is because it is not practical because there is too much volume of water to mix the warm water...

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