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Where could you store the energy from a tornado?
Assuming a very large device was constructed which could harvest up to 20% of the mechanical energy of a tornado. It is a mobile platform of some sort, and one or several of these are ready to deploy ...
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How to shield lighter-than-air towers from wind?
I’m building a colossal tower. This tower forgoes the use of steel and concrete completely in favor of cheap lighter-than-air modules. These modules have cube-shaped frames made of carbon fiber and ...
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Harvesting energy from rain as efficiently as possible
The goal is to engineer the most efficient way(s) to harvest energy from rainfall using moderately advanced technology. My idea was to use this as widespread power source for a race of people that ...
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What design adaptions would a wind turbine require to operate in a perpetual hurricane?
Never mind why there's a perpetual hurricane. This is about extracting power from it.
Let's say that there's a perpetual hurricane that constantly "hovers" in one location - say, over ...
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How does one fight in a perpetual hurricane?
Never mind why there's a perpetual hurricane. This is about fighting in it.
I'm not sure what the terrain of the Sahara is after getting blasted with hurricane-force winds for 2 million years, but ...
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What would be some design features of an international research station built in a perpetual hurricane?
Never mind why there's a perpetual hurricane. This is about a building being built in it.
Let's say that there's a perpetual hurricane that constantly "hovers" in one location - say, over ...
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What would land vehicles designed to operate in a perpetual hurricane look like?
Never mind why there's a perpetual hurricane. This is about the vehicles going into and out of it.
Let's say that there's a perpetual hurricane that constantly "hovers" in one location - say,...
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Cooling the Indian subcontinent using tibet [closed]
The Indian subcontinent is at the same latitude as the Sahara desert, and if not for the Tibetan Plateau reversing the Haileys cell, would have the same enviornment. The plateau causes rain in the ...
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Sea pumps to create rain using windmills to control weather?
I'd love some science advice and facts for this question:
If they use wind power to bring up water from the ocean in the day time and spray it on prevailing winds going into land (i.e. 10-15 km from ...
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Aircraft that can endure high winds and storms
I'm building a world where all continents are Islands.
Since I was interested in giving a little bit of science backup on this particular thing, I decided that the weather was mostly windy and ...
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Can I huff and puff and blow a pyramid down?
I am the most powerful weather wizard in the world. I can create any sort of wind based phenomenon with a snap of my fingers. I can whip up a tornado in less than a minute, and get a Category 5 ...
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How to efficiently protect a city from constant snowstorms?
Sort of an extension of
With minimal terraforming, what features/structures would need to be built to protect a 25mi radius city from wind?
but with some more items to consider.
For whatever ...
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With minimal terraforming, what features/structures would need to be built to protect a 25mi radius city from wind?
I understand that the wind is caused by a differential in atmospheric pressure, but say that a city built in an extremely flat landscape is constantly threatened/harassed by the wind and wind-related ...
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