The Proposal
The proposal has the intention of interfering with the cycle as outlined above. It does this by reflecting the incoming energy from the sun back into space thus cutting off evaporation from an area of the sea surface. Clearly, if this can be achieved over a sufficient area, and in the earliest stages of the development of the prospective hurricane, there is a good prospect of killing the development.
It seems probable that it will be necessary to achieve these effects over an area of the order of at least 100 Km² and possibly twice that. At first sight this appears to be beyond the bounds of feasibility, and even more so when the timeliness aspect is considered. For these reasons a large flying boat is proposed having capabilities to meet both the feasibility and timeliness constraints. This latter constraint is taken as being met by the aircraft’s ability to position itself and deploy its reflector in a maximum of 7 hours when directed to a prospective hurricane development area (PHDA) anywhere within the area referred to above. One aircraft will deploy a total reflection area of 25Km². As the present estimate is that 100Km² of reflection is required four aircraft will be needed to attend a PHDA. These will have been stationed at waiting stations spread out across the area, thus the first will arrive at the PHDA in probably under 1.5 hours and all four will be deployed within 7 hours.