Bill Gates, the man who brought us Windows is the same man that will eventually calm hurricanes? That's the plan and according to the U.S. Patent and Trade Office he has submitted five patents that involve slowing hurricanes by using barges to pump cold water from oceans deep to cool the water surface temperatures and therefore causing the hurricane to loose strength before making landfall.Hurricanes build in magnitude by drawing warm waters from the ocean's surface so what Gates presents is actually feasible and according to hurricane experts it would actually work if done on a massive scale. By cooling the sea surface temperature by as much as 4.5 degrees under the eye of the hurricane, it would actually kill the storm altogether.
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