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| Can Bill Gates Prevent the Next Katrina? |
| from the you-can-have-6-billion-guesses dept. |
| posted by timothy on Friday July 10, @08:01 (Earth) |
| http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/07/10/0522210 |
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[0]theodp writes "He once controlled the world's PCs. [1]Now Bill Gates
has set his sights on controlling the world's weather. And patenting it.
On Thursday, the USPTO revealed that Gates and ex-Microsoft CTO [2]Nathan
Myhrvold have filed five patent applications that propose using large
fleets of vessels to suppress hurricanes through various methods of
mixing warm water from the surface of the ocean with colder water at
greater depths. The idea is to decrease the surface temperature, reducing
or eliminating the heat-driven condensation that fuels the giant storms.
Hey, a guy [3]can only play so much golf in retirement."
Discuss this story at:
http://news.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=09/07/10/0522210
Links:
0. mailto:[email protected]
1.
http://www.techflash.com/microsoft/One_force_of_nature_vs_another_Bill_Gates_wants_to_stop_hurricanes_50385622.html
2.
http://www.intellectualventures.com/bio.aspx?id=e26036be-aefc-4333-98da-822bb698318e
3.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/images/1591841550/ref=dp_image_0?ie=UTF8&n=283155&s=books
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