"It is the moisture that gives hurricanes their strength," says Peter Cordani who runs Dyn-O-Mat, the company that makes the product. "In the case of a huge hurricane, we would not be trying to soak it up altogether. But what we would do is break it up and reduce its strength and killing potential. We think we can save lives with this product and we are very happy about that."
(Thanks to Razorsmile/Variable Gravitas Content.)
This form of "cloud-killing" involves lots and lots of moisture-absorbing particles. Supposedly they're biodegradable and non-toxic, and they probably really are. But wouldn't it be ironic if they caused, like, a pandemic or poisoned the water supply? Kind of an Kurt Vonnegut's "Ice-9" situation, in which an effort to make mud navigable to military vehicles ends up offing the planet.
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