Can a big shockwave disrupt a tornado and cease its formation?
In: Planetary Science
Maybe. It is conceivable that some inverse of the Butterfly Effect (destructive interference type of air flow) could be used to interrupt the formation of a tornado. For the moment, let’s just assume this is true. The first question would be how to figure out when to do this, at what position, over what area, for what amount of time, and how much force would be needed. The second question would be to build the mechanism that would carry this out. Is there a really big fan that might be useful for this purpose and if so, how would it be moved 100’s or 1000’s of miles to follow storm fronts? If we figured out how make bombs that could do this, what kind of damage would be caused by the bombs and the inevitable accidents that would happen. The third question is who would pay for this hypothetical system.
So, in summation, maybe it would work, but we cannot figure out how to do it reliably and probably couldn’t afford it if we could.
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