Dynamic tornado teardown system
A system for preventing damage from tornados and other harmful naturally occurring weather phenomenon uses multiple jet devices which are distributed in a ground array to produce man made tornados. The man made tornados function to divert or stop the natural tornados. Explosive devices can also be used with the man made tornados to stop the natural tornados. The power of the man made tornados and explosives required to tear down the natural tornados can be determined by calculating the threshold energies of the natural tornados. By determining the energy requirements, process for stopping natural tornados can be optimized.
This application is a Continuation-In-Part of copending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10/356,111, filed Feb. 3, 2003 (Atty. Docket No. 730.02), entitled “TORNADO DYNAMIC TEARDOWN SYSTEMS”; which IS incorporated by reference herein.
FIELD OF INVENTIONThis invention relates to meteorology, and, more specifically, to methods for the teardown of disastrous weather conditions, such as tornados, to protect human beings and their property.
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTIONA substantial amount of research has been conducted to develop a way to control disastrous weather patterns that include a suction vortex, or suction funnel, or funnel such as a Tornado, Twister, Dust Devil, Cyclone and Waterspout. However, because these weather systems have huge amounts of energy, none of the prior art methods for combating these systems has been feasible.
These weather systems destroy millions of dollars of property and kill hundreds of human beings every year.
Various inventors have patented several ways to stop these destructive weather conditions. U.S. Pat. No. 370,845 to Atwater (1887) discloses simple cyclone destroyer, which may stop some small-scale man made experimental funnels formed in a chamber or laboratory. But this system cannot stop a natural full scale tornado.
Thereafter, U.S. Pat. No. 4,362,280 to McCambridge (1982) has invented an apparatus and method, for reducing the destructive effects, but does not stop tornados. A problem with the McCambridge device is that there is no carrier to transport a large quantity of the devices in a very short period needed to reduce the effectiveness of the tornado. Moreover, the McCambridge device produces a huge quantity of waste which must be cleaned up after the device is used.
There have been some Russian publications which have proposed the use of explosives to stop tornados. For example, in R.U. 2068540 to Ozeretskovskii, et al (1996), R.U. 2077835 to Dubchak, V N (1997), and R.U. 2062560 to Talanov B P, and U.K. Brodsky, Stanislav (1999). Although, some of these methods are intended to stop a tornado, none of these references clearly describe how they work. Some of these methods damage the land where the methods were used and some of the methods have to be performed out at sea. Some of the references have to be developed by militaries. All of them do indeterminately create the scale of energy that needs to stop a tornado.
The average energy of a tornado possessed is 1014 to 1019 Joules. This energy almost equals ten times the energy consumed daily in United States, or a few of nuclear bombs. It is impossible to stop tornados without a destruction theory. That is why so far no active way of stopping tornados is currently conducted. The only means of protection are passive methods which do not control tornados such as basement shelters. Tornado warning systems also exist, but tornados still wreck havoc.
SUMMARY OF THE INVENTIONThe inventive disaster weather system tear down system has several objectives and advantages over the prior art:
(a) To provide a revolutionary theory that presents a detailed physical model, which clearly describes the energy changing in an enclosure system of the disaster weather that possesses a suction funnel.
(b) To provide a description of a disaster weather system that originates with two isolated separation systems: a disaster weather cloud base and a ground environment. The suction funnel is just a connection that connects the two isolated systems together and results in a single enclosure disaster system.
(c) To provide a strategy for attacking the tornado at the funnel which is the weakest link between two isolated systems. The funnel is just a short path for the high energy of the cloud base to release its energy to the ground environment by means of sucking up everything from the lower energy of ground environment. Any way to choke up the funnel will interrupt their connection and stop the damage of disaster weather systems, which include of course tornados.
(d) To provide an optimized way to stop a tornado that the physical model presents there are two thresholds in a disaster weather system: 1. The higher energy threshold. When the energy of a cloud base exceeds the higher energy threshold, the disaster weather system starts to form a funnel. 2. The lower energy threshold. When the energy of a disaster weather system is less than the threshold, the funnel disappears. Moreover, the disaster weather system model describes the formation of the funnel consumes a huge quantity of energy. Because it takes long time for the cloud base to accumulate enough energy to form a funnel again in certain period and a certain area, a physical choke in a funnel for a short a period of time is enough to destroy the enclosure of the disaster weather system.
(e) To provide a quantitative analysis of the energy required stopping a tornado. There is high Reynolds Number turbulent core flow inside a tornado funnel. The diameter of the core flow is only one third of the diameter of the funnel. The core flow diameter is only 30 feet to a couple of hundreds of feet in diameter. Because the core diameter of the core flow is fairly small, clogging the core flow for a short period of time without damaging the environment is feasible and practicable. The energy used to break the enclosure of a disaster weather system is small and the energy mechanism used would be affordable.
(f) To provide a brand new discovery in application of the energy conservation law. As soon as the funnel is clogged or interrupted the energy conservation law acts as a transformation of rheology of the formats of the energies inside the clogged funnel. The elevation head will become a major function from pressure head and velocity head spontaneously. The broken ends of the funnel will suck back into their bases.
(g) To provide a guideline that the choking of a disaster weather system funnel needs a very small energy to initialize breaking the enclosure of the disaster weather system. A tornado has winds that travel at least 80 miles per hour. The moving nature and the rheology conservation law help break the connection of the disaster weather system. The development of a system for choking the disaster weather system funnel will protect human beings and their property and should be started now.
(h) According to the presented physical model, to provide many flexible ways to deal with different disaster weather systems in order to protect metropolitan, civilian and important facility areas.
Further objects and advantages in the treatment the disaster weather systems to protect human lives and their asserts are described below.
DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGSThe invention is herein described, by way of example only, with reference to embodiment of the present invention illustrated in the accompanying drawings, wherein:
A preferred embodiment of the present invention is illustrated in
The devices 22 can include fuel-powered jet engines that ignite themselves and emit very high velocity hot air. The specific jet devices 22 used to combat a tornado can be selected by the teardown process requirements. The temperature and the flow mass are controlled by TDTS computer controller. The hot air devices 22 are positioned by the TDTS control system to create a rotating mass of gas, which become man-made tornados. The devices 22 can be tilted with 360 degree rotating to blow out the hot air in controlled circles. The output of many hot air devices 22 can be coordinated to make a number of man-made tornado-funnels.
Natural tornados rotate in a counter-clockwise direction and the man-made funnels deployed in TDTS areas can be designed to rotate in either clockwise or counter-clockwise directions. The counter-clockwise rotating man-made funnels repel the nature funnel and the clockwise man-made funnels attract the nature tornados. When a tornado 20 moves close to the GAAS area 24, the counter-clockwise man-made tornados are pushing out the nature funnel over their areas. The clockwise man-made tornados are attracting the nature funnel moving over their areas and anchoring the bottom of the nature funnel. Changing the flow mass, rotation and the temperature of the man-made tornados can teardown the tornado. The mechanical device 22 blows up up-flown hot air. Numbers of them are placed in array pattern as GAAS area 24. Small man-made tornados are formed by the ground array attractive systems 24 to attract the tornado moving over its area 24. The mass, temperature and rotation of the man-made up-flow can be controlled according to the process of the tornado dynamic teardown system described below. The TDTS also includes a control system center (CSC) 26 which is in communications with an explosion and launching system (ELS) 30 which are located within the boundary of the metropolitan area 32.
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From the description above, a number of advantages of the inventive dynamic tornado teardown system are evident:
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- (a) Stopping a disaster weather system is possible. It just needs a little energy to initialize the functional exchanging of the rheology conservation law and the characteristic of the high speed moving of a tornado helps humans destroy the disaster weather system.
- (b) Stopping disaster weather such as a tornado during its forming a funnel is easier and can save material explosion energy.
- (c) Based on the present invention, the funnel quickly releases the energy from a cloud base to the ground. The process of the teardown tornado doesn't start until just before it hits the metropolitan, civilian or other important areas.
- (d) The man-made tornados can be set in the peripheral area to effectively protect the metropolitan, civilian or other important areas, and can teardown the many kinds of disaster weather systems. Optimization of the reverse rotation man-made tornado process can conserve a huge amount of energy. It also can combine with the material explosion more flexibly to treat a tornado.
- (e) The present invention illustrates that there are existing resources to begin developing practical systems to stop disaster weather systems. The modern technologies to actively stop a tornado should not be limited to passive action to avoid damage and injury.
Although the description above contains many specifications, these should not be constructed as limiting the scope of the invention, but merely providing illustrations of some of the presently preferred embodiments of this invention. For example, the tornado dynamic teardown system can been built in some different ways. The material device of explosion can be made of many different materials. The devices can been built in may different ways. The man-made tornados can be formed and processed by many different processes. The physical energy model can be applied in guiding many methods to deal with the disaster weather phenomena with suction funnels, etc. Thus the scope of the invention should be determined by the appended claims and their legal equivalents, rather than by the examples given.
Claims
1. A method for reducing the destructive power of a disaster weather system such as tornados, twisters, dust devils, cyclones, and waterspouts comprising the steps:
- detecting the path and direction of rotation of the disaster weather system;
- providing an array of air flow devices for generating man-made tornados;
- actuating at least some of the devices in the array of devices to generate a man-made tornado that rotates in the opposite direction of the disaster weather system to attract the disaster weather system to the array of air flow devices; and
- intercepting the disaster weather system with the man-made tornado to lower the reduce the velocity of winds and destructive power the disaster weather system.
2. The method for reducing the destructive power of a disaster weather system of claim 1 further comprising the steps:
- providing a launching system for delivering an explosion material device;
- launching the explosion material device towards the disaster weather system; and
- detonating the explosive material device in the disaster weather system.
3. The method for reducing the destructive power of a disaster weather system of claim 2 wherein the detonating of the explosive material occurs in the funnel of the disaster weather system.
4. The method for reducing the destructive power of a disaster weather system of claim 2 wherein the detonating of the explosive material clogs the core flow of the disaster weather system.
5. The method for reducing the destructive power of a disaster weather system of claim 2 wherein the detonating of the explosive material occurs in the funnel of the disaster weather system before the disaster weather system extends down to the ground level.
6. The method for reducing the destructive power of a disaster weather system of claim 1 further comprising the steps:
- providing a balloon attached to an explosion material device;
- launching the balloon and explosion material device towards the disaster weather system; and
- detonating the explosion material device in the disaster weather system.
7. The method for reducing the destructive power of a disaster weather system of claim 6 wherein the detonating step occurs when the explosive material is at a specific height in the funnel of the disaster weather system
8. The method for reducing the destructive power of a disaster weather system of claim 1 wherein the launching step is performed by using an explosive material delivery device.
9. The method for reducing the destructive power of a disaster weather system of claim 1 wherein the array of air flow devices includes a plurality of individual air flow devices which are distributed over an area of land and or water close to a metropolitan area.
10. A method for reducing the destructive power of a disaster weather system such as tornados, twisters, dust devils, cyclones, and waterspouts comprising the steps:
- detecting the path and direction of rotation of the disaster weather system;
- providing an array of air flow devices for generating man-made tornados;
- actuating some of the devices in the array of devices to generate a man-made tornado to which rotates in the same direction as the disaster weather system to repel the disaster weather system; and
- intercepting the disaster weather system with the man-made tornado to divert the disaster weather system from an area of the array of air flow devices.
11. The method for reducing the destructive power of a disaster weather system of claim 10 further comprising the steps:
- providing a launching system for delivering an explosion material device;
- launching the explosion material device towards the disaster weather system; and
- detonating the explosive material device in the disaster weather system.
12. The method for reducing the destructive power of a disaster weather system of claim 10 wherein the detonating of the explosive material occurs in the funnel of the disaster weather system.
13. The method for reducing the destructive power of a disaster weather system of claim 10 wherein the detonating of the explosive material clogs the core flow of the disaster weather system.
14. The method for reducing the destructive power of a disaster weather system of claim 10 wherein the detonating of the explosive material occurs in the funnel of the disaster weather system before the disaster weather system extends down to the ground level.
15. The method for reducing the destructive power of a disaster weather system of claim 10 further comprising the steps:
- providing a balloon attached to an explosion material device;
- releasing the balloon and explosion material device towards the disaster weather system; and
- detonating the explosion material device in the disaster weather system.
16. The method for reducing the destructive power of a disaster weather system of claim 15 wherein the detonating step occurs when the explosive material is at a specific height in the funnel of the disaster weather system.
17. The method for reducing the destructive power of a disaster weather system of claim 10 wherein the launching step is performed by using an explosive material delivery device.
18. The method for reducing the destructive power of a disaster weather system of claim 10 wherein the array of air flow devices includes a plurality of individual air flow devices which are distributed over an area of land and or water close to a metropolitan area.
19. A method for reducing the destructive power of a disaster weather system such as tornados, twisters, dust devils, cyclones, and waterspouts comprising the steps:
- detecting the path and direction of rotation of the disaster weather system;
- determining the high energy threshold of the disaster weather system;
- selecting an explosive device which can reduce the disaster weather system energy below the low energy threshold of the disaster weather system;
- intercepting the disaster weather system with the explosive device; and
- detonating the explosive device within the disaster weather system to lower the energy of the disaster weather system below the low energy threshold.
20. The method for reducing the destructive power of a disaster weather system of claim 19 wherein the disaster weather system has a funnel and the detonating step interrupts the funnel to destroy the disaster weather system.